GAMEDAY 21 - at Moncton

GAMEDAY

Saint John Sea Dogs vs Moncton Wildcats

Tonight at 7:00pm

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Moncton Coliseum – Moncton, NB

PREVIEW

MONCTON – The Saint John Sea Dogs will be looking to at least score a goal tonight.

The Sea Dogs are coming off a 1-0 loss to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan on Tuesday night at Harbour Station. Saint John looked flat and were shutout for the second time this season. The Dogs will be looking to rebound from that loss tonight when they take on the Moncton Wildcats this evening at 7pm.

Saint John enters play today with a 6-12-0-2 record which places them last in the Telus Maritimes Division and 17^th overall in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. They are two points back of the 16^th-place Titan and six points up on last place Shawinigan.

The Dogs are only 1-8-0-1 in their last 10 games. They ended their nine-game losing streak last Saturday but could not carry over that momentum into Tuesday’s contest.

Oliver Cooper leads the team in scoring with seven goals and 10 assists for 17 points in 20 games.

The Wildcats enter action with a 9-12-0-1 record which is good for fourth in the Maritimes Division and 14^th overall. They are 4-5-0-1 in their last 10.

Ivan Barbashev, who returned to the Moncton lineup last Friday in Saint John, leads the Wildcats in scoring with eight goals and 16 assists for 24 points in 17 games. He’s pretty good.

THE NUMBERS

	Moncton	Saint John
Record	9-12-0-1 (4th Maritimes)	6-12-0-2 (6th Maritimes)
Home Record	4-7-0-0	4-6-0-1
Road Record	5-5-0-1	2-6-0-1
Goals For/Game	2.98 (13th)	2.22 (18th)
Goals Against/Game	3.38 (8th)	3.01 (5th)
Shots For/Game	29.73 (11th)	31.01 (7th)
Shots Against/Game	29.01 (9th)	36.84 (18th)
Overall PP	19.3% (15th)	19.8% (13th)
Home PP	22.6% (11th)	22.4% (12th)
Road PP	15.4% (14th)	15.9% (13th)
Overall PK	81.9% (1st)	80.8% (2nd)
Home PK	78.3% (9th)	86.2% (3rd)
Road PK	85.4% (1st)	73.2% (13th)
PIM/GAME	14.9	17.4
Attendance	3,884	2,966

LEADING SCORERS
Moncton

Player	GP	Goals	Assists	Points
Ivan Barbashev	17	8	16	24
Christopher Caissy	22	7	15	22
Christophe Lalonde	22	13	7	20

Saint John

Player	GP	Goals	Assists	Points
Oliver Cooper	20	7	10	17
Olivier LeBlanc	20	4	10	14
Michael Abbott	14	5	7	12

GOALTENDERS
Moncton

Goaltender	Record	GAA	SV%
Alex Dubeau	9-10-0-1	2.72	0.908
Graham Hunt	0-2-0-0	5.46	0.783

Saint John

Goaltender	Record	GAA	SV%
Sebastien Auger	4-11-0-2	2.70	0.928
Antoine Landry	2-1-0-0	3.57	0.895

LAST GAMES

The Sea Dogs are coming off a 1-0 loss to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan on Tuesday night at Harbour Station. Sebastien Auger made 44 saves in the loss.

The Wildcats are coming off a 6-2 victory over the Charlottetown Islanders on Sunday at the Coliseum. JC Campagna and Christophe Lalonde each had two goals while singles came from Conor Garland and Mark Simpson.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

The Sea Dogs are 1-2-0-0 against the Wildcats this season while Moncton is 2-1-0-0 against Saint John.

The last time these two met was on November 1^st at Harbour Station where the Wildcats defeated the Sea Dogs 6-2. JC Campagna had a pair of goals in that game while Moncton singles came from Garrett Johnston, Mathieu Olivier, Ivan Barbashev, and Christophe Lalonde. Sea Dogs goals came from Spencer Smallman and Oliver Cooper. Alex Dubeau made 26 saves for the win while Sebastien Auger made 36 in the loss.

NOTES

• The Wildcats withdrew their bid from hosting the 2015 Memorial Cup this week because they play in a sauna.
• Moncton leads the all-important Rivalry Cup standings 2-1.
• Christopher Caissy, Moncton’s second leading scorer, is out indefinitely with a lower body injury suffered on Sunday.
• The Sea Dogs have lost four straight road games. They play their next five games away from Harbour Station.

OUT OF TOWN

Charlottetown at Acadie-Bathurst - 7:00 PM AST

Drummondville at Blainville-Boisbriand - 7:00 PM EST

Victoriaville at Rouyn-Noranda - 7:30 PM EST

NEXT GAME

The Sea Dogs are in Halifax on Saturday night to battle the Mooseheads.