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Saint John Sea Dogs vs PEI Rocket
Today at 3:00pm
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Charlottetown Civic Centre – Charlottetown, PEI
PREVIEW
CHARLOTTETOWN – The team known as the “PEI Rocket” will
play their last ever regular season game today. The Quebec Major Junior Hockey
League franchise will be renamed the "PEI Islanders" for next season.
The Rocket’s opponent today will be the Saint John Sea
Dogs. It is the final game of the regular season for both clubs. Game time is
3pm at the Charlottetown Civic Centre.
It’s a big game for the Rocket who sit seventh overall
with a record of 40-23-3-1. If the Moncton Wildcats lose in Bathurst today and
PEI wins, the Rocket would move into sixth overall. If the playoffs started
today, the Rocket would have to make the long trek to Val-d’Or and face the
Foreurs in the first-round.
PEI is heading into the playoffs as one of the league’s
hottest teams. They have won five straight and are 7-1-1-1 in their last 10
games.
Something else to follow today is the league’s scoring
race. Halifax’s Jonathan Drouin and PEI’s Ben Duffy each sit atop the point
leaderboard with 105 points each. PEI’s Josh Currie sits third with 101 points.
For the Sea Dogs, this game doesn’t mean anything in the
standings. They are locked in 16th thanks to a Sherbrooke Phoenix
victory last night. They’ll face the top ranked Halifax Mooseheads in the
first-round beginning next Friday at the Metro Centre.
Saint John enters action today with a 23-43-1-0 record,
placing them fifth in the Telus Maritimes Division. No matter what happens
today, this will be the third worst season in franchise history and just the
third time ever they’ll finish below .500.
Jakub Izacky is the team’s active leading scoring with 20
goals and 16 assists for 36 points in 62 games.
THE NUMBERS| PEI | Saint John | |
| Record | 40-23-3-1 (3rd Maritimes) | 23-43-1-0 (5th Maritimes) |
| Home Record | 24-8-1-0 | 13-21-0-0 |
| Road Record | 16-15-2-1 | 10-22-1-0 |
| Goals For/Game | 3.77 (8th) | 2.49 (16th) |
| Goals Against/Game | 3.32 (9th) | 3.90 (14th) |
| Shots For/Game | 31.93 (7th) | 27.27 (14th) |
| Shots Against/Game | 31.06 (11th) | 36.19 (18th) |
| Overall PP | 23.1% (6th) | 19.9% (13th) |
| Home PP | 24.2% (8th) | 18.7% (13th) |
| Road PP | 22.1% (7th) | 21.1% (9th) |
| Overall PK | 80.7% (6th) | 75.7% (15th) |
| Home PK | 87.5% (1st) | 78.8% (13th) |
| Road PK | 75.8% (12th) | 72.7% (16th) |
| PIM/GAME | 17.6 | 16.0 |
| Attendance | 1,839 | 3,992 |
LEADING SCORERS
PEI
| Player | GP | Goals | Assists | Points |
| Ben Duffy | 67 | 38 | 67 | 105 |
| Josh Currie | 67 | 46 | 55 | 101 |
| Louick Marcotte | 62 | 25 | 26 | 51 |
Saint John
| Player | GP | Goals | Assists | Points |
| Jakub Izacky | 62 | 20 | 16 | 36 |
| Pierre Durepos | 42 | 5 | 23 | 28 |
| Stephen Anderson | 62 | 12 | 14 | 26 |
GOALTENDERS
PEI
PEI
| Goaltender | Record | GAA | SV% |
| Antoine Bibeau | 27-11-2-1 | 2.76 | 0.912 |
| Maxime Lagace | 13-12-1-0 | 4.05 | 0.869 |
Saint John
| Goaltender | Record | GAA | SV% |
| Sebastien Auger | 22-31-1-0 | 3.34 | 0.907 |
| Alex Fournier | 1-12-0-0 | 5.33 | 0.858 |
LAST GAMES
The Sea Dogs are coming off a 3-1 loss in Halifax on
Friday night. Andreas Tsogkas scored Saint John’s only goal while Sebastien
Auger made 24 saves in the win.
The Rocket are coming off a 3-2 win over the Moncton
Wildcats on Friday night in Charlottetown. Rookie Alexis Pepin scored twice
while Ben Duffy added a solo marker. Antoine Bibeau made 28 saves in the win.
HEAD-TO-HEAD
The Sea Dogs are 1-6-0-0 against the Rocket this season
while PEI is 6-0-1-0 against Saint John. This is their final meeting of the
season.
Their last meeting was on March 6 at Harbour Station
where the Rocket defeated the Sea Dogs 3-2. Matej Beran, Alex Micallef, and Yan
Pavel Laplante scored for the Rocket. Jakub Izacky and Stephen Anderson scored
for the Dogs. Antoine Bibeau made 29 saves in the win while Sebastien Auger
made 43 in the loss.
NOTES
- Josh Currie is third in the league in goals with 46.
- Ben Duffy is second in assists with 67.
- Currie has a league high 10 shorthanded goals.
- Patrick McGrath is second in penalty minutes with 166. He is two back of Gatineau’s Adam Chapman for the league lead.
- Alexis Pepin has had a good rookie season. He is 14th in rookie scoring with 17 goals and 12 assists for 29 points in 63 games.
- PEI leads the league in shorthanded goals with 21.
OUT OF TOWN
Cape Breton at Halifax - 2:00 PM ADT
Moncton at Acadie-Bathurst - 4:00 PM ADT
Rimouski at Quebec - 3:00 PM EDT
NEXT GAME
The Sea Dogs travel to Halifax to take on the Mooseheads
in Game 1 of the first-round of the President’s Cup Playoffs this Friday.
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