News & Notes From Sunday's Game

Some stuff from last night’s game…

• From a Sea Dogs standpoint, this wasn’t a pretty game. First time they’ve been blown out like this in a couple weeks.
• Despite losing their fourth straight and being just 3-7 in their last 10 games, Saint John remains in 16th overall. Fortunately for the Dogs, all the other teams who are fighting for a playoff spot are struggling right now as well.
• Antoine Landry made his first start in net since January 15th which was the game he got hurt in. The Sea Dogs backup goaltender had his struggles yesterday and may have been a bit rusty, allowing seven goals on 28 shots.
• Jason Cameron is having one of the best stretches of his career. With a goal yesterday, the 20-year old forward has three goals in his past six games. Yesterday’s goal was also his fifth of the season which is a career high.
• Just after Cameron’s goal at 9:13 of the second, the main lights that aluminate the ice went out and caused a roughly 15-minutes delay. The arena still had power and stuff but the main lights were not operating. The Cape Breton Post tweeted that there was a “surge.”
• Sea Dogs must be closing in on the single season league record for power/light outages in games.
• Saint John struggled after the light outage, allowing three Cape Breton goals in the period.
• On a power play early in the third, Ross Yates sent out Nicolas Hebert, Marcus Cuomo, and Mackenzie Brown to start it.
• The Sea Dogs’ offense didn’t have a great night despite outshooting the Screaming Eagles 30-28. It was just the seventh time that Saint John outshot an opponent this season. They are 2-5 in those games.
• Bunch of roughing and unsportsmanlike penalties, misconducts, etc. late in the third in this one. Even Screaming Eagles backup goaltender Zachary Fortin was getting involved from the bench.
• Cape Breton clinched a playoff spot with the win. Good for them.
• The Sea Dogs were without Stephen Anderson (upper body), Joey Richard (shoulder), and Lukas Walter (healthy) along with defensemen Michael Abbott (hand), Jurij Repe (lower body), and Olivier LeBlanc (upper body).

NOTES: Saint John's third jerseys made a rare road appearance… Cape Breton import Maxim Lazarev played in his first game since February 5th… only 1,851 fans at the game due to, presumably, the storm and Team Canada game… Matthew Highmore had six shots… Bailey Webster and Kelly Bent each had three hits… Justin Hache had four hits for the Eagles… these two play each other three more times this season.

NEXT GAME: The Shawinigan Cataractes make an appearance at Harbour Station on Thursday night. Huge game.