Recap: Sea Dogs lose 6-2

FINAL: Saint John 2, Charlottetown 6

Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs

CHARLOTTETOWN - The Saint John Sea Dogs came up short in their final road game of the regular season.

The Charlottetown Islanders had points from 10 different players in a 6-2 victory over the Sea Dogs on Saturday at Eastlink Centre. The loss was Saint John's 13th straight defeat away from TD Station.

The story was similar to a lot of road games for Saint John: they got behind early and couldn't generate enough quality scoring chances to get back in it. The Sea Dogs got within two goals late in the second period but that would be as close as they would come.

Cole Huckins, William Shields, Ross Campbell, Simon Hughes, Matthew Butler and Alexis Michaud all scored for Charlottetown. Aksels Ozols made 23 saves in the win.

Tyler Peddle and Brody Fournier scored for Saint John. Patrick Leaver made 38 stops in the loss.

Like in many of their recent road matches, the Sea Dogs had a rough first period, trailing 3-0 and getting outshot 14-9. 

Saint John got on the board at 5:54 of the second period when Peddle scored. But the momentum was short lived with Hughes converting just 18 seconds later. The Sea Dogs did have some offensive pressure applied late in the period and were rewarded with a Fournier goal with 38 seconds remaining.

The Sea Dogs struggled to generate great chances in the third period, getting outshot 16-5 in the final frame. Butler added some insurance at 9:22 to make it 5-2 and Michaud secured the win with an empty net goal in the final minute.

LINEUP

Simek - Beveridge - Elliott

Peddle - Miller - Fournier

Reynolds - Groulx - Beaulieu

Calder - Laforge - Beaudry

Tivey - Ianniello

MacLean - Mann

Richard - Amyot

Leaver

Robinson

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without forwards Eriks Mateiko (injury) and Luka Benoit (heathy) along with defensemen Nicolas Bilodeau (injury or sickness) and Olivier Duhamel (injury or sickness).

NOTES: Jeff Hansen once again acted as Saint John's head coach with Travis Crickard continuing to recover from the medical emergency he suffered last weekend in Sydney... shots were 6-0 Charlottetown to start the game... Charlottetown went 2/2 on the power play in the first period and went 2/4 in the game. Saint John went 0/4... Pavel Simek had five shots... the Sea Dogs will finish the season with a 9-22-2-1 road record... attendance was 3,063. According to Islanders radio, this was the 10th time this season the team had a crowd of over 3,000.

HIGHLIGHTS

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs host the Islanders tomorrow afternoon at 3 p.m. at TD Station.