News & Notes From Friday's Game

Some stuff from last night’s game…

• The Sea Dogs have now won back-to-back games and have picked up points in each of their past three games. They are also 5-4-1-0 in their last 10. Saint John sits just four points back (and have played two less games) of the Sherbrooke Phoenix who hold the league’s final playoff spot.
• The Islanders, who revamped their roster during the holiday trading period and got younger, are struggling these days. They are 3-7 in their last 10, have lost three straight overall, and have lost 10 straight on the road.
• Saint John had a solid first period, outshooting Charlottetown 19-5. Samuel Dove-McFalls had the only goal of the period to give the Dogs a 1-0 advantage.
• The Dogs had five 16-year olds in the starting lineup (pictured) – defensemen Thomas Chabot and Will Thompson and forwards Nathan Noel, Mathieu Joseph, and Samuel Dove-McFalls.
• Jason Cameron had a penalty shot in the first period but couldn’t score. In the league this year, there have been only nine goals on 30 penalty shot attempts.
• With two assists last night, Noah Zilbert has four goals and three assists in his past four games.
• Just like on Wednesday night in Moncton, the Sea Dogs were massively outshot in the third period but managed to hang on. Shots in the third on Friday night were 21-5 in favour of the Islanders but Saint John would score the only goal of the frame.
• Overage defenseman David Weckworth of all people scored the game-winning goal at 18:30 of the third period with a point shot that beat Isles goaltender Eric Brassard. It was Weckworth’s first goal as a Sea Dog and his first QMJHL since December 17^th, 2010 when he was a member of the Gatineau Olympiques.
• Cameron also had a very rare assist on Weckworth’s goal. It was the first assist for the 20-year old forward since February 28^th, 2012.
• Saint John’s overage trio of Cameron, Weckworth, and Lukas Walter have now combined for three goals and 11 assists. Weckworth has 11 of those 14 points.
• Sebastien Auger.
• The Dogs have done well against the Islanders this season. They improved to 3-3-0-1 against them with the win last night, picking up seven points in seven games.
• The Sea Dogs were without forwards Lukas Walter (upper body), Stephen Anderson (upper body), and Joey Richard (shoulder) along with defensemen Michael Abbott (hand) and Alexander McQuaid (healthy). Goaltender Antoine Landry was also out with a lower body injury.
• With Landry out, Saint John Vitos netminder Kyle Porter backed-up Sebastien Auger. Sea Dogs head coach Ross Yates said on the News 88.9 pre-game show that Landry could be out for a couple weeks or more.
• Before the game, Matthew Highmore was named the Sea Dogs' player and student of the month for December.

NOTES: Scott McCain was in the house… Saint John mayor Mel Norton was also in attendance… Samuel Dove-McFalls has points in back-to-back games. He also had a team high four shots… Olivier LeBlanc and Jeremy Doucet each had two hits… Dogs improved to 4-2-0-2 in games that are tied after two… Alexandre Goulet was a -3... Oliver Cooper got a checking to the head game misconduct in the third period.

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs host the Drummondville Voltigeurs tonight at 7pm at Harbour Station.