Recap: Sea Dogs lose 6-2

FINAL: Saint John 2, Shawinigan 6

Vincent Létourneau/Shawinigan Cataractes

SHAWINIGAN, QC - The Saint John Sea Dogs had a third period collapse on Thursday night in Shawinigan.

The Cataractes scored four times in the third period, breaking a 2-2 tie and going on to post a 6-2 win. Shots were 17-4 in favour of Shawinigan in the third.

The loss ended a two-game winning streak for Saint John. 

The Sea Dogs hadn't played too bad of a road game until the third period. Mistakes proved costly as Shawinigan scored on some turnovers and odd-man rushes.

Six different players scored for Shawinigan: Julien Lanthier, Vince Elie, Nathan Ouellet, Elias Schneider, Jiri Klima and Mathieu Plante. Mathys Fernandez made 20 saves in the win.

Julien Wasmer and William Yared scored for Saint John. Rafaël Courchesne made 29 saves in the loss.

This was the second meeting in less than a week between the Sea Dogs and Cataractes. The two met last Saturday at TD Station where Saint John posted a 3-2 overtime win.

LINEUP

Fullerton - Groulx - Donovan

Côté - Yared - Rozzi

Héroux - Krayer - Gauthier

Morin - Joseph

Wasmer - Duhamel

Magnusson - Baldwin

Damphousse - Chartrand

Drabczynski

Courchesne

Radkov

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without forwards Olivers Murnieks (injury) and Jabez Seymour (injury) along with defenseman Vincent Croteau (injury or sickness).

NOTES: Saint John went with 11 forwards and seven defensemen... Jabez Seymour, who was hurt in Monday's game, did not play due to injury... goaltender Arseni Radkov, who was a healthy scratch the past two games, was back in uniform. He was Rafaël Courchesne's backup... Courchesne made a third straight start... Julien Wasmer's goal was his first as a Sea Dog... former Sea Dogs forward Vince Elie, likely playing his final game against his old team, had a goal and an assist... the Sea Dogs have now lost three straight road games... Alexis Joseph had a seven-game road point streak snapped... Angelo Fullerton had five shots... Shawinigan went 0/5 on the power play while Saint John went 0/2... attendance was 2,671.

HIGHLIGHTS

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs continue this three-game road trip tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Sherbrooke.