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| Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs |
Former Sea Dog Simon Hughes scored a pair of goals to lead the Islanders to a 5-3 win, extending Charlottetown's lead over Saint John in the race for the QMJHL's final playoff spots. The Islanders now have an eight-point lead on the Sea Dogs with 14 games remaining.
Quispamsis native Kiefer Lyons, who scored the game-winner in Charlottetown's 3-2 victory in Saint John on Saturday, scored again while Jeremie Biakabutuka and Michael Horth added the Islanders' other goals. Jakob Robillard was very good in net, making 39 saves in the win.
Noah Reinhart, Pavel Simek and Luca Benoit scored for Saint John. The Sea Dogs had plenty of offensive zone time - including five power plays - and created some quality chances but simply had a hard time converting. Saint John never led in the game.
Olivier Brideau made some key saves in the first two periods to keep the game close. The netminder made 25 saves in the loss.
LINEUP
Burns - Burbidge - Reinhart
Simek - Mateiko - Benoit
Laforge - Cournoyer - Drover
Ballard - Elie
Tivey - DesRoches
Akkouche - Cosman
Ianniello - Bilodeau
Cosman
Brideau
Shingarov
SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without defenseman Jeremie Richard (healthy) and forwards Peter Reynolds (injury), Sam-Luca Thifault (injury), Nathan Casey (healthy) and Jacob Beaulieu (healthy).
ONE FOR ALL: It was the final day of the Sea Dogs' One For All Festival which featured a tribute to Lady Gaga. Performances took place before the game and during both intermissions.
Lady Gaga tribute act pre-game pic.twitter.com/EI6P7oo6ap
— Jamie Tozer (@station_nation) February 20, 2023
LATE GOAL: Charlottetown opened the scoring in the first period just as the buzzer sounded. The Jeremie Biakabutuka goal was ruled a good goal on the ice and after a quick review was officially declared a goal. 0.3 seconds were put back on the clock to end the period.
HUGHES: Simon Hughes scored his third and fourth goals of the season against his former team in this game. Hughes has four goals and an assist in five games against Saint John this year.
NOTES: The Sea Dogs swapped Harrison Ballard in for Jacob Beaulieu... Olivier Brideau started a second straight game in net... Mike Eagles was on the Sea Dogs bench as an assistant coach, replacing Mark Lee who is away with Team Newfoundland and Labrador at the Canada Games... Saint John went 0/5 on the power play but Noah Reinhart's goal came just as Simon Hughes' penalty expired... Pavel Simek had a goal and an assist... Alexis Cournoyer had two assists... the Sea Dogs have now dropped three straight games... Saint John did not take a single penalty in this game... Brady Burns and Nicolas Bilodeau each had five shots... the 50/50 winner took home $8,255... attendance was 5,192, the second biggest crowd of the season at TD Station.
HIGHLIGHTS
NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs visit the Moncton Wildcats on Thursday night at 7 p.m.
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