News & Notes From Wednesday's Game

MONCTON – Some stuff from last night’s game…

• It was another solid road game for the Sea Dogs. Last night’s win came after good performances in Quebec City and Blainville-Boisbriand over the weekend. Saint John is now 5-4-1-0 in their last 10 games.
• It’s been quite a few games for Noah Zilbert. With two goals last night, the Fredericton native now has four goals in his past three games. He has nine all season.
• In 14 career games against Moncton, Zilbert now has eight goals.
• It was once again nice to see some different players step up and score for the Sea Dogs in a win. Zilbert had two goals while defensemen Will Thompson and Jurij Repe had the others.
• Conor Garland had all three Moncton goals. His third goal was a beauty.
• Some wild stuff took place at 9:30 of the first period (video above). Samuel Dove-McFalls fought Kyle Haas and then Jeremy Doucet took on Matthew Klebanskyj. Dove-McFalls got an instigator while Doucet was given a game misconduct for “fighting after the original altercation.” Kelly Bent also got a game misconduct for being the third man in. So the Dogs won this game while being shorthanded.
• After all this took place, there was a bizarre lengthy delay as the officials tried to figure out the penalties. Like really, really long. 
• Eventful game for Dove-McFalls. Along with his second QMJHL fight, he had an assist on Zilbert’s game-tying goal in the third.
• After going behind the net to try and play the puck, Antoine Landry looked to be in some discomfort. Play headed back down the ice but at the next whistle JP Laciak had to come out and take a look at the Dogs netminder who had fallen to his knees. Landry, who made 12 saves in just under 31 minutes of action, was helped off with an apparent lower body injury.
• Sebastien Auger took over in relief and was outstanding in net. He made 30 saves in the second half of the game, including 27 (!) in the third period alone.
• Shots in the third were 27-8 in favour of Moncton. 27-8.
• Saint John scored two goals in under two minutes in the third to take a 4-3 lead. Auger entered brick wall mode and was just spectacular in keeping the Dogs in front. Things got scary late in the period when Alexander McQuaid took a double-minor for high-sticking at 16:21. But Auger and the Dogs would hang on.
• Dogs improved to 3-4-0-0 against the Wildcats this season. All three of their wins have come at the Coliseum. 
• 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 Thomas Chabot (healthy).

NOTES: It was warm at the Coliseum bot not uncomfortably hot like opening night in September… Oliver Cooper had two assists… Dogs were solid on faceoffs last night, winning 44 of 69… David Weckworth had two hits… Mackenzie Brown had four shots… Conor Garland had seven shots… Christophe Lalonde had two hits… Jeremy Doucet’s visor got popped off in his fight… a Times & Transcript board ad fell off during play in the second period. It was a metaphor for the newspaper industry. 

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs host the Charlottetown Islanders tomorrow night at Harbour Station.