PRE-GAME: Saint John Sea Dogs vs Cape Breton Screaming Eagles

Game Day
Saint John Sea Dogs vs Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
Today, October 11, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Centre 200, Sydney, NS

Visiting Team: Saint John Sea Dogs
Record: 7-3-1-0 (Tied 1st in Atlantic Division)
Last Game: 5-2 Win @ Cape Breton yesterday
Leading Scorer: Steven Anthony: 11-7-5-12
Notes: Nathan Beaulieu know has nine points in his first 11 games. He only had 10 points all of last season… Nicholas Petersen has a three game goal scoring streak. He has seven points in his first three games… Sea Dogs head coach Gerard Gallant had some words for the official following last night’s win… Mike Thomas returns to the Sea Dogs line-up after missing six games due to a suspension… Mike Hoffman skated yesterday but is unlikely to play… Sea Dogs have won two straight games and three straight over the Eagles... it is unknown who will start in goal after Gelinas broke the goaltending rotation last night by starting in his second straight game.

Home Team: Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
Record: 5-3-1-1 (5th in Atlantic Division)
Last Game: 5-2 loss vs Saint John yeasterday
Leading Scorer: Luke Adam: 8-4-9-13
Notes: Star goaltender Olivier Roy allowed all five goals last night. With a win today he can become the franchise leader in all-time wins by a goalie… Michael Ward laid out Tomas Jurco to end last night’s game… Luke Adam and Nick MacNeil combined for four points last night- each were involved in both goals… the Eagles have yet to beat Saint John in the regular season. They defeated the Dogs in the pre-season.

Saint John vs Cape Breton:
This Season (GP-W-L-OTL-SOL-PTS):
3-3-0-0-0-6
Home: 1-1-0-0-0-2
Road: 2-2-0-0-0-4
Goals For: 14
Goals Against: 9

Last Season (GP-W-L-OTL-SOL-PTS):
8-2-4-1-1-6
Home: 4-1-2-1-0-3
Road: 4-1-2-0-2-4
Goals For: 20
Goals Against: 34

All-Time-Not including this season (GP-W-L-OTL-SOL-PTS):
26-8-13-1-5-22
Home: 13-3-6-1-3-10
Road: 13-5-7-0-2-12
Goals For: 65
Goals Against: 93

Station Nation Facts:

• Cape Breton notables over the years include: Rodrigue Lemoyne, Pierre Larouche, Jacques Cossette, Michel Déziel, Raymond Bourque, Patrick Roy, Pierre Turgeon, Michel Therrien, Marc-André Fleury and Ondrej Pavelec.
• This is the fourth of eight meetings between the two teams and third in Sydney.
• A win by Saint John today would help erase memories of last season’s four game sweep at the hands of the Eagles.

Last night’s game recap:
Anthony scores as Sea Dogs dump Eagles
Five different players found the net as the Saint John Sea Dogs dumped the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles 5-2 on Saturday night in QMJHL action at Centre 200.

Steven Anthony and Olivier Ouellet scored in the first period and Nathan Beaulieu gave the visiting Sea Dogs a 3-0 advantage with his marker at 5:25 of the second.

Viktor Hertzberg got the Screaming Eagles on the board with his fourth goal of the season 37 seconds later and Nick MacNeil tallied his seventh goal at 10:07 on the power play to cut the deficit to one goal.

Tomas Jurco put the Sea Dogs back up by two at 5:41 of the third and Nicholas Petersen closed out the scoring less than two minutes later.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Sports/1147073.html

Important Info:
Venue: Centre 200
Capacity: 4,670

Saint John Media: Radio- News 88.9 FM (http://www.news889.com/)
Live Video Streaming: http://www.qmjhl.mytelus.com/
Post-Game Coverage: Telegraph-Journal, Cape Breton Post, http://www.stationnation.blogspot.com/
Post-Game Highlights: www.youtube.com/capebretoneagles

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