Friday, February 18, 2022

Recap: Sea Dogs win 3-2

FINAL: Daoust 3, Halifax 2
Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs
HALIFAX - Philippe Daoust scored a hat trick to lead the Saint John Sea Dogs to a 3-2 victory over the Halifax Mooseheads on Friday night at Scotiabank Centre.

Daoust scored once in the second period and twice in the third in what proved to be an eventful and close match between two teams that haven't seen a lot of each other yet this season. Saint John lost a couple forwards in the game while the Mooseheads lost a few defensemen.

Nikolas Hurtubise made some key saves in net throughout the contest. He made 34 stops in the win with 18 of those coming in the third period.

Elliot Desnoyers and Zachary Beauregard scored for Halifax. Brady James made 32 saves in the loss.

The Mooseheads had the better of the chances in the first period, outshooting the Sea Dogs 12-8 and leading 1-0 thanks to Desnoyers' goal. The script flipped in the second period with Saint John outshooting Halifax 15-5 and Daoust tying the game. The Moose had a difficult time creating any scoring chances in the middle frame.

Beauregard and Daoust traded goals early in the third. The Sea Dogs overager then gave Saint John a 3-2 lead at 7:57 and the Dogs would hold on to that one-goal advantage the rest of the way. Hurtubise made some big saves down the stretch to secure the victory.

LINEUP
Ansons - Lawrence - Dufour
Burns - Daoust - Chantler
Reynolds - MacDonald - Bezeau
Trenholm - Blagden

Sevigny - Villeneuve
Kuznetsov - Poirier
Drapeau - DesRoches
Despont

Hurtubise
Couture

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without goaltender Noah Patenaude (injury) and forwards Olivier Picard, Ryan Francis (injury) and Marshall Lessard (injury). Francis and Lessard missed their second straight games with injuries.

BIG MIX: The Sea Dogs shuffled all four of their forward lines following a disappointing 6-1 loss last Friday in Rimouski. The defense pairings stayed the same with Vincent Despont dressing as the seventh defenseman. Saint John dressed only 11 forwards.

FIGHT: Nicholas Blagden and Stephen Davis had quite a fight in the second period with the Sea Dogs forward getting a lot of punches in. No replay of the fight was shown in the building. Both players received a game misconduct for the staged fight.
TOSSED: Saint John went down to nine forwards early in the third period after Connor Trenholm put a hit from behind on Brady Schultz. Trenholm was given a five-minute major and game misconduct for the hit.
HATS: Philippe Daoust recorded his first career QMJHL hat trick in the game. He now has six goals in six games since joining the Sea Dogs.
WELCOME BACK: Due to COVID restrictions in Nova Scotia, this was the Mooseheads' first home game since December. Only 3,000 fans were allowed to attend.

VS HALIFAX: This was just the third meeting of the season between the Sea Dogs and Mooseheads and first in Halifax. Saint John hadn't played a regular season game in Halifax since 2020.
NOTES: Nikolas Hurtubise started his second straight game... after not being traded to Saint John at the deadline, Elliot Desnoyers was in the Mooseheads' starting lineup... Philippe Daoust was hurt in the second period after a leg-on-leg collision. He hobbled to the dressing room but did return... Cameron Whynot was the victim of a big hit from Riley Bezeau early in the second period. He did not return... William Dufour had seven shots... Saint John won 43 of 71 faceoffs... the game took two hours and 39 minutes to complete thanks to all the penalties... this was Saint John's fourth straight road game... this was also Saint John's first game of a three-in-three. They'll also face Victoriaville and Drummondville this weekend back at TD Station.

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs host the Victoriaville Tigres tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at TD Station.
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