Recap: Sea Dogs lose 7-4

FINAL: Saint John 4, Moncton 7

Daniel St. Louis/Moncton Wildcats

MONCTON - It wasn't the Saint John Sea Dogs' night on Thursday at Avenir Centre.

The Moncton Wildcats had a bit more jump and capitalized on some Saint John mistakes in a 7-4 win over the Sea Dogs. The Sea Dogs, coming off an ugly 6-3 home loss on Saturday, led 2-0 just 2:19 in but the great start went to waste as they lost a fourth straight game.

The Wildcats showed their offensive depth with seven different players scoring: Alex Mercier, Teddy Mutryn, Kuzma Voronin, Preston Lounsbury, Caleb Desnoyers, Adam Fortier-Gendron and Gavin Cornforth. Rudy Guimond made 25 saves in the win.

Angelo Fullerton, Olivier Groulx, Alexis Joseph and Dylan Rozzi scored for Saint John. Arseni Radkov made 38 saves in the loss.

Not a lot to say about this one. The Sea Dogs grabbed a quick lead but couldn't maintain it against a superior team. Saint John did make it 4-3 late in the second period but allowed three straight goals in the third, ending any chance of a comeback.

LINEUP

Rozzi - Murnieks - Seymour

Héroux - Krayer

Côté - Joseph - Morin

Fullerton - Groulx - Donovan

Damphousse - Chartrand

Wasmer - Duhamel

Magnusson - Baldwin

Drabczynski

Radkov

Courchesne

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without forwards William Yared (injury or sickness) and Alexis Gauthier (healthy) along with defenseman Vincent Croteau (healthy).

NOTES: The Sea Dogs went with 11 forwards and seven defensemen with forward Alexis Gauthier the final scratch... after a brutal game on Saturday, the Sea Dogs really mixed up their lines and pairings... Olivier Duhamel and Maxime Côté each wore an 'A' on their jerseys... Olivier Groulx has goals in back-to-back games... Alexander Donovan had two assists... Alexis Joseph has goals in back-to-back games to give him 20 on the season. He is the seventh Sea Dogs rookie to record 20 goals or more... goaltender Arseni Radkov made a sixth straight start... Zachary Morin had four shots... Olivers Murnieks was a -5... the first penalty of the game wasn't called until 10:54 of the third period. Both teams went 0/1 on the power play... shots were 18-4 in favour of Moncton in the third period... faceoffs were 27-22 in favour of Saint John... Saint John has allowed five or more goals in each of their past four games... the Sea Dogs are now 1-5-0-0 against the Wildcats this season... attendance was 3,921.

HIGHLIGHTS

Coming soon.

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs head to Charlottetown on Saturday to face the Islanders at 7 p.m.