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Sunday, March 19, 2023

Recap: Sea Dogs win 4-3 (SO)

FINAL: Charlottetown 3, Saint John 4 (SO)
Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs
SAINT JOHN
- The Saint John Sea Dogs earned their biggest win of the season on Sunday afternoon, pushing them into a playoff spot with two games to go.

Noah Reinhart scored with 46.9 seconds remaining in regulation and then Eriks Mateiko scored the shootout winner, lifting Saint John to a 4-3 win over the Charlottetown Islanders at TD Station.

The victory gives the Sea Dogs 53 points and pushes them into 15th overall, leaping over both the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada (52 points) and Val-d'Or Foreurs (51 points). All three clubs have two games remaining in the regular season - but Saint John now controls their own destiny.

The Sea Dogs were trailing 2-0 in the second period on Sunday but fought back thanks to goals from Nicolas Bilodeau and Cole Burbidge just over two minutes apart. Ross Campbell then netted his second of the game late in the middle frame, putting the Islanders back in front.

Saint John pressed in the third and were finally rewarded when Reinhart netted the equalizer with goaltender Ventsislav Shingarov pulled. 

The Sea Dogs had a power play in overtime but could not score, sending the match into a shootout. Mateiko won it in the fourth round.

Shingarov made 24 saves in 65 minutes of play and stopped three of four shooters in the shootout.

Lucas Romeo also scored for Charlottetown. Dixon Grimes made 43 saves in the loss.

LINEUP
Burns - Reynolds - Reinhart
Simek - Burbidge - Benoit
Mateiko - Cournoyer - Drover
Calder - Elie

Tivey - DesRoches
Ianniello - Cosman
Bilodeau - Akkouche
Despont

Shingarov
Brideau

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without defenseman Jeremie Richard (injury) along with forwards Sam-Luca Thifault (injury), Harrison Ballard (injury), Nathan Casey (injury), Nico Laforge (injury) and Jacob Beaulieu (healthy).

BIG TILT: Vincent Despont and Sam Bowness had quite a tilt early in the first period, trading some big blows. Despont was given an instigator penalty. According to HockeyFights.com, this was just the fourth fight of the year for the Sea Dogs.

VS ISLES: Nicolas Bilodeau continued to do damage against the Islanders. The rookie defensemen scored in the second period, giving him two goals and 10 assists against Charlottetown this season. The goal also gives Bilodeau sole possession of the team record for points in a season by a rookie defenseman (42).
POINTS RECORD: With an assist in the second period, Brady Burns tied Jonathan Huberdeau's franchise points record (257). Burns has two regular season games remaining to try and move into sole possession of the record.

NOTES: Saint John once again went with 11 forwards and seven defensemen... Ventsislav Shingarov has been the victim of some unfortunate bounces of late. Another one happened on Charlottetown's first goal when a dump in took a weird bounce and went straight out in front... the Sea Dogs allowed a league-leading 16th shorthanded goal against in the second period... Peter Reynolds had 10 of Saint John's 46 shots... Reynolds had two assists... Cole Burbidge had a goal and an assist... Saint John won 43/67 faceoffs... this was Saint John's second shootout victory of the season... attendance was just 2,864, a small crowd for a late season weekend game.
HIGHLIGHTS


NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs visit the Islanders on Friday night at 7:30 p.m.

1 comment:

  1. What a weekend of hockey at TD Station! Friday the boys battled a top team to the endand showed heart . Sunday again every guy battled and left nothing in the tank ...WELL DONE

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