Recap: Sea Dogs lose 6-4

FINAL: Halifax 6, Saint John 4

Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs

SAINT JOHN - A four-goal third period lifted the Halifax Mooseheads to a 6-4 win over the Saint John Sea Dogs on Friday night at TD Station.

The Mooseheads scored twice in just over a two-minute span near the midway mark of the third period, breaking a 2-2 tie. Saint John quickly got back within one only to have the Moose make it 5-3 just over a minute later. Saint John got back within a goal again in the final minute but the Moose iced the victory with an empty net marker with two-seconds remaining.

Markus Vidicek scored a pair of goals for Halifax while singles came from Brody Fournier, Dylan MacKinnon, Alexandre Doucet and Josh Lawrence. Brady James made 23 stops in the win.

Alexis Cournoyer, Reid Calder, Brady Burns and Nicolas Bilodeau scored for Saint John. Ventsislav Shingarov made 31 saves in the loss.

LINEUP

Mateiko - Reynolds - Elie

Thifault - Burbidge - Reinhart

Simek - Laforge - Cournoyer

Calder - Beaulieu - Burns

Tivey - Akkouche

Bilodeau - Cosman

Richard

Shingarov

Brideau

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without goaltender Nikolas Hurtubise (healthy); defensemen Charlie DesRoches (injury), Vincent Despont (serving the first game of a two-game suspension) and Tristan Dassylva (healthy); and forwards Tomasz Szczerba (injury) and Nathan Casey (healthy).

FIRST GOAL: Affiliate player Reid Calder of the Saint John Vito's, called up for this game, scored his first career QMJHL goal in the second period.

Saint John-born Reid Calder scores his FIRST QMJHL goal in front of his hometown crowd and gives the Sea Dogs the lead! 🚨#CityofChampions pic.twitter.com/krYYCtruOn

— Saint John Sea Dogs (@SJSeaDogs) January 7, 2023

NOTES: The Sea Dogs played a man short with just five defensemen dressing... Vincent Despont served the first game of a two-game suspension for a check-to-the-head penalty he took on Wednesday night... the newly acquired Tristan Dassylva and Nathan Casey were both listed as healthy scratches... Josh Lawrence returned to Saint John for the first time since being traded. He scored an empty net goal and had five shots... Alexis Cournoyer had a goal and two assists... Cole Burbidge had six shots... Brady Burns returned from his suspension and recorded a goal and an assist... Saint John went 1/1 on the power play... this was the Mooseheads' first trip to Saint John this season... Halifax went 39/62 in the faceoff circle... attendance was 2,649.

HIGHLIGHTS

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs take on the Rimouski Oceanic on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. at TD Station.