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| Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs |
The Sea Dogs made the most of their scoring chances in an 8-4 win over the Charlottetown Islanders. The victory gives Saint John 46 points on the season and moves them into a tie with the Quebec Remparts for the QMJHL's 16th and final playoff spot — but Saint John owns the first tiebreaker.
Shots in the game were 45-24 and the Sea Dogs weathered a few storms from the Islanders in the win. Patrick Leaver, who also started Saturday night's game in Charlottetown, once again made some key stops in the victory.
Tyler Peddle and Drew Elliott each scored a pair of goals for Saint John while singles came from Nico Laforge, Brody Fournier, Jacob Beaulieu and Matteo Mann. The Sea Dogs, who were without Eriks Mateiko again, finally got their secondary scoring rolling.
Simon Hughes, Ross Campbell and Kyle Powers scored for Charlottetown. Carter Bickle was pulled in the second period after allowing four goals on 11 shots. Aksels Ozols allowed three goals on 12 shots in relief.
The Sea Dogs led 2-0 after one despite getting outshot 17-7. Laforge scored a weird goal from the corner that fooled Bickle and then, with 32 seconds remaining, Fournier scored on an odd man rush while shorthanded.
Saint John continued to make the most of their opportunities in the second period. Beaulieu made it 3-0 at 10:37 and then, just 11 seconds later, Elliott scored following a turnover behind the Charlottetown net to chase Bickle from the game.
Ozols, who played in Saturday's Islanders win over the Sea Dogs, didn't fare much better in net. At 14:55, Peddle entered the zone, kept the puck and slid a backhand shot under the Charlottetown netminder to make it 5-0 Saint John.
Hughes got the Islanders on the board at 16:28 of the second and then the Islanders scored two quick goals in the third to make it a 5-3 game. At 5:08 of the third, Peddle ripped a shot over the shoulder of Ozols to stop some of the Charlottetown momentum and give Saint John a three-goal lead again.
After exchanging power play goals to make it 7-4, the Islanders pulled their netminder with over six minutes remaining. Elliott finally found the empty net at 16:23, making it an 8-4 final.
LINEUP
Simek - Beveridge - Elliott
Peddle - Miller - Fournier
Reynolds - Groulx - Beaulieu
Laforge - Benoit
Tivey - Ianniello
Bilodeau - Mann
MacLean - Amyot
Richard
Leaver
Robinson
SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs without defenseman Olivier Duhamel (injury or sickness) along with forwards Eriks Mateiko (injury), Benjamin Beaudry (healthy) and Reid Calder (healthy).
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... the Sea Dogs wore their black third jerseys... the Sea Dogs went with 11 forwards and seven defensemen... Nico Larforge's goal — which was a weird one from the corner — was his first of the season... this was the most goals the Sea Dogs have scored in a single game this season... Nicolas Bilodeau had two assists... Saint John went 1/1 on the power play while Charlottetown went 1/3... Drew Elliott had four shots... attendance was 2,934... the Sea Dogs improved to 2-6-0-0 all-time on St. Patrick's Day.
HIGHLIGHTS
NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs take on the Moncton Wildcats on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at TD Station.
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