RECAP: Dogs Lose

FINAL: Saint John 1, Bathurst 4

BATHURST – Alex Fournier made 52 saves but it wasn’t enough as the Acadie-Bathurst Titan defeated the Saint John Sea Dogs 4-1 in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action on Friday night at the KC Irving Regional Centre.

Maxime Villemaire scored Saint John’s only goal, a goal that came at 1:15 of the second period. Saint John was able to get 33 shots on net but could only break Jacob Brennan’s defenses once.

The Titan had a pair of goals from Patrik Zdrahal and solo markers from Christophe Lalancette and Michael Beaudry.

Bathurst opened the scoring at 5:24 of the first as Zdrahal scored his first of the contest. Lalancette doubled the Titan’s lead as Lalancette connected at 12:29. Shots were 21-10 in favour of the home team in the first.

After Villemaire made it 2-1 in the second, Beaudry scored just 58 seconds into the third to restore Bathurst’s two-goal lead. Zdrahal netted his second of the match at 3:20 to make it 4-1 and that is the way it would finish.

Both teams went 0-for-3 on the power play.

The Sea Dogs fell to 22-39-1-0 with the loss. They still have not clinched a playoff spot but… it would take an incredible turn of events for them not to get in.

NOTES: See Sea Dogs Postscript tomorrow on SN.

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs host the PEI Rocket on Wednesday night at 7pm.