RECAP: Sea Dogs lose 4-3

FINAL: Rimouski 4, Saint John 3

SAINT JOHN - In a close battle, the Saint John Sea Dogs fell 4-3 to the Rimouski Oceanic on Saturday night at Harbour Station.

While the buzz was around goaltender Alex D'Orio being traded to the Baie-Comeau Drakkar, the Sea Dogs played a fairly solid game against one of the league's better clubs.

Saint John has shown of late that they are able to handle some adversity and battle back from it. They showed that again on Saturday, climbing back from 2-0 and 3-2 deficits. Despite ultimately losing, the Sea Dogs have shown a lot of improvement in their game over the past couple weeks.

Filip Prikryl, Jeremie Jacob and Brady Burns - all of whom have been putting up points at a steady pace of late - scored for Saint John. Burns also had a an assist in a first star performance. Mikhail Denisov, in his first game as the team's official No. 1 netminder, made 34 stops in the loss.

Anthony D'Amours, Charle-Edouard D'Astous, Cedric Pare and Jimmy Huntington scored for Rimouski. Tristan Berube made 27 stops in the win.

LINEUP

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without forwards Anthony Boucher, Christian Clark and Yohan Plamondon; along with defenseman Brendan Sibley.

NOTES: Affiliate defenseman Patrick Musico (MHL - Grand Falls) was in the lineup again on Saturday... Maxim Cajkovic returned to the lineup after missing the last couple games with an injury... Cedric Pare has scored in both games he has played against his old club... this was the third game in three nights for Saint John... Brady Burns continues to quietly rack up points. He now has 22 points in 38 games, placing him 11th in the league amongst rookies... only three penalties were called in the game - all of which came against the Oceanic.

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NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs host the Shawinigan Cataractes on Wednesday night.