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The Sea Dogs will host the Gatineau Olympiques at Fredericton's Aitken Centre at 7 p.m. It's the second of three regular season games the Sea Dogs are playing in the city this year.
Saint John dropped their first Fredericton game, falling 5-2 to the Cape Breton Eagles on Nov. 30. There will be some new faces in the Sea Dogs lineup compared to that previous game thanks to a number of trade deadline moves.
Maxime Côté, Carl-Otto Magnusson, Arseni Radkov, Bo Damphousse and Jabez Seymour have all joined the club for the second half following deadline day deals. It will be interesting to see what kind of results this new mix of players can bring.
Stream/TV/Radio: FloHockey/None/Sea Dogs Audio Network
Records: The Sea Dogs are 14-19-3-0 for 31 points (ninth Eastern/16th QMJHL) while the Olympiques are 19-20-3-0 for 31 points (eighth Western/17th QMJHL).
Last games: The Sea Dogs are coming off a 5-2 win over the Halifax Mooseheads on Sunday at TD Station. Oskar Drabczynski, Angelo Fullerton, Everett Baldwin, Olivier Duhamel and Dylan Rozzi all scored for Saint John. Rafaël Courchesne made 31 stops in the win. The Olympiques are coming off a 7-0 loss in Moncton last night. Danai Shaiikov allowed four goals on 11 shots while Finn Moffett allowed three on 23.
2025-26 head-to-head: This is the first meeting of the season between the Sea Dogs and Olympiques.
2024-25 head-to-head: The Sea Dogs were 2-0-0-0 against the Olympiques last season while Gatineau went 0-0-2-0 against Saint John.
Last meeting: Nov. 29, 2024 in Saint John where the Sea Dogs defeated the Olympiques 3-2 in overtime. Matteo Mann, William Yared and Zachary Morin all scored for Saint John. Julien Paillé scored both Gatineau goals. Charles-Edward Gravel made 33 saves in the win. Nathan St-Pierre made 31 stops in the loss.
Ex-Sea Dogs on the Olympiques: None.
Olympiques to watch: Gatineau's power play has been pretty good despite their record. Justin Boisselle has a team high eight power play goals.
Random stat: Sea Dogs defenseman Everett Baldwin has points in three of Saint John's four games since the Christmas break.
Notes: Olivier Groulx leads Saint John in points with 34 and assists with 23... Alexis Joseph has a team high 17 goals... Nicholas Petrut leads Gatineau in points with 25 and assists with 18... Justin Boisselle leads the team in goals with 11... Saint John is 7-12-0-0 at home overall and 0-1-0-0 at the Aitken Centre... Gatineau is 5-12-2-0 on the road... Alexis Joseph is sixth in QMJHL rookie scoring with 33 points in 30 games and fifth in goals... Gatineau is averaging 12.76 penalty minutes per game, the second most in the QMJHL... Gatineau is 6-6-3-0 against Eastern Conference teams while Saint John is 2-3-0-0 against Western Conference squads... Gatineau has the seventh best power play (23.5%) in the league and fourth best road power play (26.2%)... the Olympiques are averaging 2.46 goals per game, the third fewest in the QMJHL... the Sea Dogs are averaging 4.04 goals against per game, the most in the league... Gatineau has lost three straight overall and six straight on the road.
Out of town:
Blainville-Boisbriand at Rouyn-Noranda - 7:00 PM EST
Cape Breton at Shawinigan - 7:00 PM EST
Next game: The Sea Dogs return to their real home and host the Newfoundland Regiment tomorrow night at 7 p.m.
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