Playoffs Game Day: Game 4 at Chicoutimi

The Saint John Sea Dogs can take a commanding 3-1 series lead with a victory tonight in Chicoutimi. Puck drop time for Game 4 is 8:30 p.m. at Centre Georges-Vezina.

TV/Radio/Webcast: None/96.1 NewSong FM/QMJHL Live

Series status: The Sea Dogs lead the best-of-seven President Cup semifinal series 2-1.

Last game: Saint John took Game 3 by score of 5-0 last night in Chicoutimi. Bokondji Imama scored a pair of goals while singles came from Joe Veleno, Samuel Dove-McFalls and Mathieu Joseph. Callum Booth was excellent in net, making 25 saves in the shutout. Julio Billia made 24 stops in the loss.

2016-17 regular season head-to-head: The Sea Dogs went 2-0-0-0 against the Sagueneens in the regular season while Chicoutimi went 0-2-0-0 against Saint John.

Ex-Sea Dogs on the Sagueneens: None.

Random stat: The Sea Dogs have now outscored opponents 21-2 in third periods this post-season, meaning 21 of their 53 goals have been scored in the final 20 minutes of regulation time.

Three Things to Know
1. Mathieu Joseph and Matthew Highmore both extended their point streaks to 11 games last night.

2. The Sags seem to like playing the second game of a back-to-back. The good news for Saint John is that this is the final back-to-back in this series

La bonne nouvelle pour les @SagueneensLHJMQ fiche de 6-0 en séries sur les 2e match en 2 soirs et de 4-0 sur un 2en2 après un revers #LHJMQ

— Stephane Leroux (@StephRDSJunior) April 26, 2017

3. The Sea Dogs have had just one power play over the past two games (and one of those games featured double overtime). There's just no way that can continue into a third game, right?

Notes: Mathieu Joseph leads Saint John in scoring with 18 points and goals with nine... Matthew Highmore has a team high12 assists... Dmitry Zhukenov leads Chicoutimi in points with 19 and assists with 14... Nicolas Roy has a team high eight goals... Saint John is 5-0 on the road this post-season... Callum Booth has the league's best GAA (1.55) and second best SV% (.925)... Saint John is averaging a league high 4.57 goals per game and a league low 1.55 goals against per game... Joe Veleno has goals in three straight games.

Avec le match de ce soir  Fiche a vie de Callum Booth au Centre Georges Vezina : 11PJ  Fiche : 7-2-2 Moy. 1,63  BL. : 3 Eff. ,938 @SJSeaDogs

— Stephane Leroux (@StephRDSJunior) April 26, 2017

Regular season head-to-head:

Out of town:
Charlottetown at Blainville-Boisbriand - 7:30 PM EDT

Next game: Game 5 of this series takes place on Friday at 7 p.m. at Harbour Station.