POSTSCRIPT: Sea Dogs 2, Eagles 3

A collection of recaps from yesterday’s 3-2 Saint John Sea Dogs loss to the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles…

Our recap. The Sea Dogs headed to Cape Breton to face off against the Screaming Eagles on Sunday afternoon at Centre 200. Saint John was riding the high of a win against the Titan on Friday night.

The Telegraph-Journal’s recap (paywall). The Saint John Sea Dogs failed to capitalize on an opportunity to move into 15th place in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League standings when they dropped a 3-2 decision to the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles Sunday afternoon.

The Cape Breton Post’s recap. Cape Breton Screaming Eagles skated to a 3-2 comeback win over the Saint John Sea Dogs in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action Sunday at Centre 200.

News 88.9’s recap. Featuring Tim Roszell’s goal calls.

The Canadian Press’ recap. Charles-Eric Legare and Jonathan Oligny scored in the third period as Cape Breton (14-43-8) came from behind to defeat Saint John (23-41-1).

SaintJohnSeaDogs.com’s recap. The Saint John Sea Dogs dropped a 3-2 contest against the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles Sunday afternoon in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action.

CapeBretonEagles.com’s recap. The Cape Breton Screaming Eagles used three power play goals to defeat the Saint John Sea Dogs 3-2 in front of 2,109 fand on hand at Centre 200 on Sunday.

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without defensemen Jurij Repe (healthy) and Steven Duda (healthy) along with forward Marcus Cuomo (healthy) on Sunday afternoon.

The Eagles were missing, like, half their team again. They dressed 17 skaters.

Not in the lineup for Cape Breton: Loic Leduc, Kyle Farrell, Timothe Simard, Stephen Midensky, Jakub Culek and William Carrier. #qmjhl
— Jeremy Fraser(@EvenStrengthQ) March 10, 2013

SHORTHANDED: Cape Breton headed to the power play at 8:19 of the first but it would be the Sea Dogs opening the scoring. Mackenzie Brown sent the puck towards the net and was redirected beautifully by Maxime Villemaire to make it 1-0 Saint John at 9:05. It was Saint John’s fourth shorthanded goal of the season which ties them for the league low with Drummondville.

POWER PLAYS: Saint John gave Cape Breton three power play opportunities in the first period. They finally connected at 19:31 thanks to a Zachery Moody goal. That sent the two teams to dressing room tied at 1-1 after one. The Eagles went 3/9 on the man advantage in the game.

VILLEMAIRE: It’s hard to imagine what Saint John’s offense would be like in the second half without Maxime Villemaire. He scored his 12^th goal of the season in the first period on Sunday. He now has 12 goals and 10 assists in 26 games since rejoining the club.

ABBOTT: Michael Abbott fired a bomb from the top of the circle while on a power play at 19:31 of the second, giving Saint John a 2-1 advantage. It was Abbott’s fifth goal of the season and third in 20 games with the Sea Dogs.

19:31: Two goals scored at the 19:31 mark of this game – one in the first and one in the second. Weird.

5-on-3: For the second straight game, the Sea Dogs had try and kill off a long five-on-three power play. With Jakub Izacky and Villemaire in the box midway through the third, Charles-Eric Legare tied the game at 2-2 at 10:22. Then at 13:56 with Ian Saab in the box, Jonathan Oligny put the Eagles ahead. The Dogs weren’t too disciplined on Sunday.

FOURNIER: Another tough loss for Alex Fournier. He made 31 saves and fell to 1-12-0-0 on the year with a 5.33 GAA and 0.858 SV%. Saint John has three games remaining in regular season so it’s possible that he may get one more start.

VS CB: The Sea Dogs will finish the season with a 5-3-0-0 record against the Screaming Eagles while Cape Breton will finish with a 3-4-0-1 record against Saint John. This was, thankfully, the final meeting of the season between the Sea Dogs and Screaming Eagles.

STANDINGS: Saint John missed a huge opportunity to move ahead of Sherbrooke in the overall standings. A win would have put the Dogs one-point ahead of the Phoenix but instead will remain one-back in 16^th place. Saint John could certainly still move ahead but it’s going to a tough go with road games against Moncton, Halifax, and PEI.

NOTES: This was Cape Breton’s second-to-last home game of the season. They have already been eliminated from the playoffs… the Sea Dogs wore their third jerseys again on Sunday… Stephen Anderson had a breakaway early in the first but sent it wide… Telus lost the Saint John audio feed in the second period. It returned several minutes later. Great work as always by Telus… Maxime Villemaire had a Sea Dogs high six shots… Olivier LeBlanc had four hits… Charles-Eric Legare had six shots for the Eagles… Zachery Moody had three hits… no goals were scored at even strength. There were four power play goals and a shorthanded marker.

HIGHLIGHTS: Courtesy of the Eagles YouTube page.

OUT OF TOWN

Acadie-Bathurst 3 at P.E.I. 5

Halifax 3 at Moncton 2 (SO)

Quebec 3 at Blainville-Boisbriand 2

Val-d'Or 1 at Drummondville 4

Shawinigan 2 at Victoriaville 5

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs are in Moncton Wednesday night to battle the Wildcats.