PRE-GAME: Saint John Sea Dogs vs Acadie-Bathurst Titan

Game Day
Saint John Sea Dogs vs Acadie-Bathurst Titan
Tonight, October 22, 2009 at 7:30 pm
K.C. Irving Regional Centre

Visiting Team: Saint John Sea Dogs
Record: 10-4-1-0 (1st in Atlantic Division)
Last Game: 5-2 Win vs PEI on Sunday
Leading Scorer: Steven Anthony: 13-8-6-14
Notes: This is the first game for Mike Thomas as captain of the Sea Dogs. The alternates will be Kirkpatrick, Sauve, and Petersen… Mike Hoffman has a two game goal scoring streak. In those two games he has scored three goals including the overtime winner on Saturday vs Moncton… Jonathan Huberdeau scored the shootout winning goal on September 11 in Bathurst for Saint John… Thomas is one minute away from 300 career penalty minutes… Stephen MacAulay missed both of last weekend’s games with an upper body injury. His status is unknown… Tyrone Sock, now playing ‘AAA’ in Moncton, had a fight in the season opener in Bathurst… Scott Oke was sent to Quebec ‘AAA’ yesterday… Marc-Antoine Gelinas is expected to start in goal… Saint John has the best road record in the league at 5-2-1-0.

Home Team: Acadie-Bathurst Titan
Record: 6-6-2-1 (5th in Atlantic division)
Last Game: 5-1 loss @ Gatineau on Sunday
Leading Scorer: Taylor Lambke: 15-6-9-15
Notes: The Titan are 2-3-1-1 at home this season… Slovakian import Radovan Pulis went back home after he aggravated a pelvis injury… Bathurst has no NHL draft picks on its roster… they have five New Brunswick born players… Defenceman Maxime Renaud was shipped to the Baie-Comeau Drakkar on Tuesday for a third-round pick in the 2011 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Entry Draft… veteran Remi Blanchard is -11 in 15 games… the Titan are coming off a three game Quebec road swing. They went 1-2 on the trip.

Saint John vs Acadie-Bathurst:
This Season (GP-W-L-OTL-SOL-PTS):
1-1-0-0-0-2
Home: 0-0-0-0-0-0
Road: 1-1-0-0-0-2
Goals For: 4
Goals Against: 3

Last Season (GP-W-L-OTL-SOL-PTS):
8-7-0-0-1-15
Home: 4-4-0-0-0-8
Road: 4-3-0-0-3-7
Goals For: 27
Goals Against: 19

All-Time-Not including this season (GP-W-L-OTL-SOL-PTS):
36-14-19-1-2-31
Home: 18-8-13-0-1-17
Road: 18-6-6-1-1-14
Goals For: 112
Goals Against: 141

Station Nation Facts:

• Saint John defeated Acadie-Bathurst 4-3 in a shootout on September 11 in the season opener for both clubs. Jonathan Huberdeau scored the shootout winner in his first career QMJHL game.
• This is the second meeting of the season between the two teams and second in Bathurst.
• These two teams face each other on Sunday at Harbour Station.
• The Sea Dogs defeated the Titan in the second round of the 2008 playoffs. The Dogs won the series four games to two.
• Bathurst is second last in league average attendance. The team is averaging only 1,678 fans after a season where the team was very close to moving to St. John’s, Newfoundland.
• The largest crowd of the season for the Titan was the season opener. Saint John was the opponent.
• The Titan moved to Bathurst in 1998 after 27 years in Laval.
• The team’s notables over the years include: Mike Bossy, Mario Lemieux, Martin Lapointe, François Beauchemin, Mathieu Benoit and Roberto Luongo...

Important Info:
Venue: K.C. Irving Regional Centre
Capacity: 3,162

Saint John Media: Radio- News 88.9 FM (http://www.news889.com/)
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Post-Game Coverage: Telegraph-Journal, http://www.stationnation.blogspot.com/