Recap: Sea Dogs win 4-3

FINAL: Baie-Comeau 3, Saint John 4

Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs

SAINT JOHN - The Saint John Sea Dogs edged the Baie-Comeau Drakkar 4-3 on Wednesday night at TD Station.

Eriks Mateiko, Sam-Luca Thifault, Jared Cosman and Nate Tivey all scored for Saint John. Ventsislav Shingarov made 32 stops in the win.

Charles-Antoine Lavallee, Felix Gagnon and Justin Poirier scored for the Drakkar. Olivier Ciarlo made 35 saves in the loss.

It's a positive to see Saint John getting some offense from throughout their lineup. With Cam MacDonald and Connor Trenholm both traded away, goals may be even harder to come by for the Sea Dogs in the second half. Brady Burns did, however, serve the final game of his suspension Wednesday.

The Drakkar's road woes continued. They've won just three road games all season. Their Maritime road trip continues in Charlottetown and Cape Breton this week.

LINEUP

Mateiko - Reynolds - Elie

Thifault - Burbidge - Reinhart

Simek - Laforge - Cournoyer

Calder - Beaulieu

Tivey - Cosman

Bilodeau - Akkouche

Richard - Despont

Tracey

Shingarov

Brideau

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without goaltender Nikolas Hurtubise (healthy); defenseman Charlie DesRoches (injury); and forwards Brady Burns (serving the fifth game of a five-game suspension) and Tomasz Szczerba (injury).

FIRST GOAL: After being a healthy scratch on Saturday, rookie defenseman Nate Tivey netted his first career QMJHL goal on Wednesday night - which proved to be the game-winner.

His FIRST QMJHL GOAL! 🚨

Nate Tivey rips a shot from the top of the faceoff circle to make it 4-2 Sea Dogs. #CityofChampions pic.twitter.com/4w5NviWPr3

— Saint John Sea Dogs (@SJSeaDogs) January 5, 2023

NOTES: Defenseman Vincent Despont was back in the Sea Dogs lineup just a couple days after Switzerland was eliminated from the World Junior Hockey Championship in Halifax... Despont was given a five-minute major and game misconduct for a check-to-the-head in the second period... Saint John dressed 11 forwards and seven defensemen... forward Reid Calder was recalled from the Saint John Vito's for this game... former Sea Dogs forward Marshall Lessard made his return to TD Station. He recorded an assist and four shots... Noah Reinhart had three assists while Cole Burbidge had two... Peter Reynolds had seven shots... attendance was 1,949.

HIGHLIGHTS

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs host the Halifax Mooseheads on Friday night at 7 p.m.