Monday, January 30, 2012

POSTSCRIPT: Armada 3, Sea Dogs 6

A collection of recaps from yesterday’s 6-3 Saint John Sea Dogs win over the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada…

Our recap. The Blainville-Boisbriand Armada hung around but weren’t able to contain the Saint John Sea Dogs on Sunday afternoon in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League at Harbour Station.

The Telegraph-Journal’s recap. Paywalled.

News 88.9’s recap. Featuring Tim Roszell’s goal calls.

SaintJohnSeaDogs.com’s recap. Mathieu Corbeil made 33 saves for the win as the Sea Dogs improved to 36-13-0-2 and moved back into first place overall in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

SN Live Blog Replay. Christopher Clapperton was missed on Sunday.

MISSING IN ACTION: The Sea Dogs were without forwards Stanislav Galiev and Maxime Villemaire along with defenseman Spencer MacDonald on Sunday afternoon.

WELCOME BACK: The Sea Dogs welcomed back forward Devon Oliver-Dares yesterday. Oliver-Dares was playing in his first game since suffering a head injury in Halifax on December 11. He started the game on the third line with Aidan Kelly and Ryan Tesink. Oliver-Dares had two hits in his return.

STREAK: The Sea Dogs extended their winning streak to five games with the victory. They are now 8-2-0-0 in their last 10 games.

CORBEIL: Mathieu Corbeil picked up his 28th win of the season on Sunday afternoon which sets a new Sea Dogs franchise record for wins a season. Jacob DeSerres had 27 victories last season.

Corbeil is now 28-9-0-0 with a 2.46 goals against average, 0.907 save percentage and has recorded five shutouts.

HUBERDEAU: Jonathan Huberdeau’s second period goal was his first since January 7 and just his second of the month. The captain now has 12 goals and 26 assists in 20 games this season.

POWER PLAY: Saint John’s power play was clicking on Sunday, going 3-for-3. The Sea Dogs’ power play is now operating at 21.5%.

The Armada’s power play didn’t have a bad day either, going 2-for-4.

SOLID EFFORT: The Armada were playing their third game in three nights and fourth in five on Sunday afternoon but showed little signs of fatigue. They outshot Saint John in both the first and second period and had two leads in the game. They finished their four game trip through the Maritimes with a record of 2-2-0-0.

PAQUETTE: Cedric Paquette is having a solid season for the Armada. With his two goals on Sunday, Paquette has 23 goals and 11 assists in 46 games,

GREAT NAMES: It was unfortunate to see Christopher Clapperton not in the Boisbriand lineup yesterday, but with Storm Phaneuf starting in goal, Sea Dogs fans got their fill of great names.

VS ARMADA: The Sea Dogs improved to 2-0-0-0 against the Armada this year with the win. They outscored them 9-4 in the two games. Sunday’s contest was their final meeting of the season.

NOTES: Tomas Jurco, Charlie Coyle, and Charles Roussel all had two assists for Saint John… Zack Phillips had a Sea Dogs high seven shots on goal. Charlie Coyle and Danick Gauthier both had six shots… Stephen MacAulay and Gauthier had three hits… Coyle went 1/10 on faceoffs… Jess Tanguy had two assists for the Armada… Cedric Paquette had a team high six shots for Boisbriand… Vincent Richer had four hits… solid Sunday of crowd of 4,608 was on hand at Harbour Station.

HIGHLIGHTS: Courtesy of SeaDogsTV.


NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs hit the road this week and take on the Drummondville Voltigeurs on Friday at 8pm at the Marcel Dionne Centre. 

Photo Credit: Marc Henwood/Station Nation

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