STATION NATION POST-GAMEHalifax – Make the Saint John Sea Dogs 1-0 on pink ice. In rather convincing fashion, Marc-Antoine Gelinas and the Sea Dogs shut-out the Mooseheads 4-0 on Saturday night.
It was ‘pink in the rink’ night at the Metro Centre, with the ice painted pink. But the Moose could not place that shade of colour on the goal lamp and were shut-out for the first time this season.
Marc-Antoine Gelinas recorded his second shut-out of the season making 40 saves. His other shut-out was by the same score of 4-0.
Saint John opened the scoring at 7:12 of the first period with Halifax native Steven Anthony scoring his team leading ninth of the season. Michael Kirkpatrick feed Anthony with a beautiful pass from the corner. Anthony wristed a shot from just inside the circle and went under the crossbar for a four-on-four goal.
It became 2-0 at 12:06 when Stanislav Galiev scored on a breakaway. Nicholas Petersen sent Galiev in behind the defense and beat Mathieu Corbeil down low. The goal was Galiev’s second in three games. In that span he also has three assists.
Halifax outshot Saint John 14-12 in the first period.
Another Halifax native, Stephen MacAulay, made it 3-0 at 2:37 of the second period. MacAulay’s first shot was stopped by Corbeil but he picked up his own rebound and went five hole on the Mooseheads goalie.
At 18:14 Nicholas Petersen made it 4-0 on a three-on-three rush. Petersen was part of a tic-tac-toe with Olivier Oullet and Jonathan Huberdeau. Oullet gave a terrific pass to speeding Petersen who slipped it home.
Saint John outshot Halifax 15-11 in the second period.
In the third it was all Gelinas who made several great saves to help secure a Saint John victory. With the win he improves to 9-3-0 on the season. His other 4-0 shutout came on October 11 in Cape Breton.
The Mooseheads could not contain Saint John’s lethal offense despite their efforts. Mathieu Corbeil falls to 1-10-0 on the season. Joel Grondin, the Mooseheads backup goalie, is winless on the season.
Final shots were 39-40 in favour of Halifax. Neither team could connect on the power play.
NOTES: The attendance was 6,777… in addition to the pink ice, Halifax wore pink jerseys. This is the second ‘pink in the rink’ night at the Metro Centre as they hosted the event last season as well… Saint John has now won four straight games which ties a season high… the Sea Dogs remain in top spot in the Atlantic division… in the basement of the Atlantic is Halifax who falls to a league worst 1-15-0-1 on the season… the Herd have lost nine straight games… Mike Hoffman had his three game goal scoring streak snapped… D Alex MacDonald (healthy), D Konrad Abeltshauser (wrist), F Gabriel Desjardins (flu), and D Sawyer Hannay (healthy) were scratched for Halifax… Gabriel Bouret and Tomas Jurco were scratched for Saint John… Jurco will miss tomorrow's game as well due to chicken pox... Saint John has now outscored the Moose 10-1 in two games this season.
NEXT GAME: Acadie-Bathurst Titan vs Saint John Sea Dogs. Sunday, October 25, 2009, at 4:00 pm at Harbour Station.
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