Recap: Sea Dogs win 5-2

FINAL: Victoriaville 2, Saint John 5

Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs

SAINT JOHN - The Saint John Sea Dogs picked up a big win on Monday afternoon at TD Station.

The Sea Dogs earned a second straight win, defeating the Victoriaville Tigres 5-2. The win pushes the Sea Dogs into a tie with the Tigres for 14th overall in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League standings. Saint John has played one more game.

After a fairly solid 3-2 overtime win over the Shawinigan Cataractes on Saturday, the Sea Dogs followed that up with a strong victory over the Tigres. The Sea Dogs have struggled at times to win games they should win, so this was a positive sign.

The game never really felt in doubt even when the Tigres tied it up at 1-1 and later cut the deficit to 3-2. The Sea Dogs were able to control much of this game and Rafaël Courchesne had a strong game in net.

Alexis Joseph led the way with a goal and two assists. Jabez Seymour, Everett Baldwin, William Yared and Alexander Donovan added singles. Courchesne made 32 saves.

Victoriaville goals came from Egor Shilov and Enzo Lottin. Gabriel D'Aigle made 34 saves in the loss.

LINEUP

Fullerton - Groulx - Donovan

Morin - Joseph - Seymour

Côté - Yared - Rozzi

Héroux - Krayer - Gauthier

Wasmer - Duhamel

Magnusson - Baldwin

Chartrand - Damphousse

Courchesne

MacPherson

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without goaltender Arseni Radkov (healthy); defensemen Vincent Croteau (injury or sickness) and Oskar Drabczynski (healthy); and forward Olivers Murnieks (injury).

NOTES: Saint John was able to go with 12 forwards and six defensemen for this game... Carl-Otto Magnusson, Maxime Côté and Angelo Fullerton all returned from suspensions... goaltender Arseni Radkov was listed as a healthy scratch for a second straight game. Affiliate Jase MacPherson was Rafaël Courchesne's backup... Courchesne made a second straight start. He posted a shutout in Victoriaville earlier this season... affiliate defenseman Jesse Dunlap, who had dressed the past two games, was not in the lineup... Cameron Chartrand played his first game since Feb. 6 due to injury... glow sticks were given out at the door... the Sea Dogs wore their Real Atlantic Superstore jerseys for a second straight game... referee Brad Mills left the game briefly in the first period after his face got cut... after scoring a hat trick in Saturday's game, Jabez Seymour opened the scoring. Unfortunately, he left the game later in the first period after going hard into the boards... Alexis Jospeh has points in five straight games, posting two goals and seven assists during that span... Everett Baldwin, who was back in his usual position as a defenseman, had eight shots... faceoffs were 48-27 in favour of Saint John... the Sea Dogs scored a league leading 13th shorthanded goal. The Tigres are now tied for the league lead in shorthanded goals against with 12... attendance on this Family Day Monday was a season high 4,630.

HIGHLIGHTS

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs visit the Shawinigan Cataractes on Thursday at 8 p.m.