Recap: Sea Dogs lose 6-0

FINAL: Charlottetown 6, Saint John 0

Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs

SAINT JOHN - It was another rough outing for the Saint John Sea Dogs on Sunday afternoon.

Coming off a 10-1 loss to the Cape Breton Eagles on Friday, the Sea Dogs once again struggled defensively in a 6-0 pre-season loss to the Charlottetown Islanders at TD Station.

The Sea Dogs are now 3-2-0-0 in pre-season play with all three of their wins coming in the first half of camp.

Like the Eagles, the Islanders were able to take advantage of the many odd man chances the Sea Dogs gave them. Charlottetown also went 2/4 on the power play.

Saint John had some decent scoring chances throughout the game but just couldn't get the bounces to go their way. There were a couple chances where Saint John players began to celebrate only to realize the puck didn't cross the line.

The Sea Dogs were once again missing a few key regulars. But, it's not like half of this team were call ups. Saint John clearly has some things to work on as the regular season inches closer.

Charlottetown entered this game having scored five goals in all of their previous four pre-season games combined. Mathis Valente, Matthew Butler, Spencer Caines, Nikita Voyaga, Ross Campbell and Madden Steen all scored. Donald Hickey made 33 saves in the win.

Justin Robinson played the entire game in net – and made a few big stops – in the loss.

LINEUP

Rozzi - Yared - Peddle

Miller - Schenk - Beaulieu

Reynolds - Groulx - Cross

Calder - Dubé - Ferdinand

Tivey - Duhamel

MacLean - Amyot

Caputo - Scanzano

Bonnet

Robinson

Gravel

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without forwards Egan Beveridge and Eriks Mateiko along with defensemen Nicolas Bilodeau and Matteo Mann.

NOTES: Veterans Tyler Peddle and Nate Tivey made their pre-season debuts... Charlottetown's Logan Biser had to be helped off the ice in the first period after getting tangled up with Giuliano Caputo in the corner... Peddle had nine shots on goal with six being listed as dangerous... Caputo had five hits while Peddle had four... every Islanders player had at least one shot on net... this was Saint John's first and only pre-season game at TD Station... attendance wasn't announced but there was a respectable crowd for a pre-season game.

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs play their final game of the pre-season on Saturday night in Tyne Valley, PEI against the Charlottetown Islanders.