Saturday, April 17, 2021

Game Day 33: vs Wildcats

SAINT JOHN - The most bizarre regular season in Saint John Sea Dogs history comes to a close tonight at TD Station.

The Sea Dogs and Moncton Wildcats will meet for a 13th time this evening. Saint John has won eight of the previous 12 meetings but Moncton won the last one, earning a 6-3 win at Avenir Centre last Sunday.

Saint John enters play today with a 15-13-3-1 record. A victory would give them more wins than their 70-game, 15-win 2005-06 expansion season.

Game time tonight is 7 p.m.

TV/Radio/Webcast: Rogers TV/93 CFBC/QMJHL Live

Records: The Sea Dogs are 15-13-3-1 for a .531 points percentage (third Maritimes) while the Wildcats are 10-16-2-1 for a .397 points percentage (fifth Maritimes).

Last games: The Sea Dogs are coming off a 5-4 home loss to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan last night. Peter Reynolds scored a pair of goals while singles came from William Villeneuve and Nicholas Girouard. Zachary Emond left the game in the second period after allowing four goals on 14 shots. Noah Patenaude allowed a goal on 11 shots the rest of the way. The Wildcats are coming off a 5-1 home loss to the Titan on Wednesday. Tristan Sanchez scored Moncton's only goal. Dakota Lund-Cornish made 25 stops in the loss.

2020-21 head-to-head: The Sea Dogs are 8-4-0-0 against the Wildcats this season while Moncton is 4-7-1-0 against Saint John.

Last meeting: Last Sunday at Avenir Centre where the Wildcats defeated the Sea Dogs 6-3. Jacob Hudson and Francis Langlois each scored twice for Moncton while singles came from Maxim Barbashev and Thomas Casey. Cam MacDonald had two goals for Saint John and Zachary Alchorn also scored. Vincent Filion made 29 saves in the win. Zachary Emond made 25 stops in the loss.

Ex-Sea Dogs on the Wildcats: Forward Connor Richard.

Wildcat to watch: Wildcats rookie forward Maxim Barbashev has five goals and four assists on the season with four of those goals and three of those assists coming against Saint John.

Random stat: The Sea Dogs have lost three straight home games and were outscored a combined 18-11. All three of those loses were to the Titan.

Notes: Ryan Francis leads Saint John in points with 50 and assists with 34... Brady Burns has a team high 18 goals... Jacob Hudson leads Moncton in points with 30 and goals with 14... Philippe Daoust has a Wildcat high 22 assists... Saint John is 8-7-1-0 at home... Moncton is 5-7-1-0 on the road... Hudson has points in eight straight road games.

Out of town:
Charlottetown at Halifax - 7:00 PM ADT

Next game: The Sea Dogs and Wildcats meet again on Tuesday night at TD Station in the first game of this weird nine-game round-robin tournament thing.

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