Some Saturday notes

Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs

The Saint John Sea Dogs did something Friday that not many teams have been able to do this season: keep Jordan Dumais off the scoresheet.

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's leading scorer was held pointless in an 8-1 Halifax Mooseheads win, displaying just how deep the Maritimes Division's top team is offensively.

Oddly, it was the second time this season that the Sea Dogs have kept Dumais off the scoresheet. The Columbus Blue Jackets prospect has been held pointless in just six games all year.

Dumais still has an impressive six goals and four assists in five games against Saint John in five meetings.

Dumais and the Mooseheads take on the Sea Dogs again tonight in Saint John.

A few other notes...

• The Mooseheads are now 5-0-0-0 against the Sea Dogs this season.
• With four points against his former team last night, Josh Lawrence moved into a tie for fourth in league scoring with 68 points. Dumais sits first (77 points) while Alexandre Doucet is second (75).
• Nikolas Hurtubise made his debut with the QJHL's Terrebonne Cobras on Friday, allowing four goals on 35 shots in a 4-1 loss to Collège Français de Longueuil. It was just the third loss of the season in 33 games for the Cobras.
• Hurtubise hadn't started a game since Dec. 9 when he was still a member of the Sea Dogs.
• Le Nouvelliste has a story on just how stacked the Cobras are, arguing that the team could give some QMJHL squads a test.
• Hurtubise is expected to split goaltending duties with Alexandre Marchand the rest of the way. Marchand is an impressive 23-0-0 this season with a 2.25 GAA and .922 SV%.
• In his return to the AHL on Friday, William Dufour scored the lone goal in the Bridgeport Islanders' 1-0 overtime victory over the Rochester Americans.
• Former Sea Dogs defenseman Kale McCallum scored his first Atlantic University Sport goal with the UNB Reds last night, netting a first period power play marker in a dominant 6-1 win at Saint Mary's. McCallum now has a goal and three assists in three games with the Reds.
• Nick Blagden, sporting a full cage, didn't play much for UNB but did receive a 10-minute misconduct late in the third period.
• Patrick Roy earned his 500th victory as a head coach Friday in the Quebec Remparts' 5-2 victory over the Rimouski Oceanic.