Our recap. Roman Will was the story of this one. The
Wildcats ‘tender made several terrific stops throughout the game to give his
team a chance. The late-game goal had to be heartbreaking.
The Telegraph-Journal’s recap. Paywalled.
The Times & Transcript’s recap. Paywalled.
News 88.9’s recap. Featuring Tim Roszell’s goal call.
SaintJohnSeaDogs.com’s recap. The Saint John Sea Dogs
waited until the eleventh hour but finally came away with a 1-0 win over the
Moncton Wildcats Thursday.
SN Live Blog Replay. The guy running the ice cream stand
had a Jonathan Huberdeau Team Canada jersey on. Unreal.
MISSING IN ACTION: The Sea Dogs were without forwards
Stanislav Galiev (wrist), Devon Oliver-Dares (head), and Maxime Villemaire
(gone home).
WELCOME BACK: Forward Ryan Tesink returned to the Sea
Dogs lineup on Thursday night. It was his first game action since November 26
due to a knee injury. His return was short lived as he was given a game
misconduct for “abuse of officials” at 18:06 of the first period. He also picked up roughing and
unsportsmanlike penalties on the same play that took place during a scrum in the
corner. Some strange stuff.
WILL: What can you say about Roman Will? The guy was
simply Evan Mosher-like, making 45 saves in the loss. It was an unfortunate
finish for him as his team couldn’t even earn a point out of the game.
JURCO: Big time goal from Tomas Jurco with 8.5 seconds
left in the game. It was his 24th of the season and fourth
game-winner.
STREAK: The win extended Saint John’s winning streak to
four games. The Dogs have outscored opponents 16-5 over that span. They are now
7-2-0-1 in their last 10 games.
COYLE: For the first time in his QMJHL career, Charlie
Coyle did not score a goal in a game. The Sea Dogs forward saw his four-game goal scoring
streak come to an end on Thursday night. He is still averaging a goal per game
though with five in five matches. Coyle finished last night’s contest with three
shots and two hits.
STRANGE PENALTIES: There were a lot of strange penalties last
night. Along with Tesink's “abuse of officials” game misconduct, there were two
delay of game calls, two unsportsmanlike penalties, and a diving infraction.
SHOTS: Saint John held a large shots-on-goal edge
throughout the game. They finished the contest with a 46-20 advantage. After
two periods, the Sea Dogs led 34-9.
VS MONCTON: The Sea Dogs improved to 4-2-0-0 against the
Wildcats this season while Moncton fell to 2-2-1-1 against Saint John. The Dogs
have won the last two head-to-head meetings.
LOW SCORING: Are these low scoring games become the norm
when Saint John and Moncton meet? Their last meeting was also a close one as
the Dogs beat the ‘Cats 2-1 in a shootout. Both regulation time goals in that
match came in the third period.
CORBEIL: Mathieu Corbeil deserves some credit for this
win. He had to be sharp, facing just nine shots through two periods. The
goaltender made a few great stops – including a big one in the third period –
to get the shutout win.
It was Corbeil’s fifth shutout of the season which is a
team record. He also picked up his 27th win of the campaign which ties
Jacob DeSerres’ team record.
NOTES: THE Todd Veinotte from “The Todd Veinotte Show”
did colour commentary with Tim Roszell on News 88.9 last night. He was quite critical
at times, but it was refreshing to listen to… Danick Gauthier had a Saint John
high eight shots on goal. Tomas Jurco had seven and Nathan Beaulieu six…
Charles Roussel had five hits… Marek Hrivik and Devon MacAusland had four shots
for the Wildcats… neither team could connect on the power play. Saint John went
0/5 and Moncton 0/6… the Sea Dogs play Moncton two more times this season.
Their next meeting is on Saturday, February 25 in Moncton.
HIGHLIGHTS: Courtesy of SeaDogsTV.
NEXT GAME: Saint John battles their expansion cousins –
the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada - on Sunday afternoon at 3pm at the Station.
Photo Credit: Marc Henwood/Station Nation
Photo Credit: Marc Henwood/Station Nation
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