Recap: Sea Dogs lose 4-2

FINAL: Drummondville 4, Saint John 2

Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs

SAINT JOHN - The Saint John Sea Dogs are now on the brink of elimination.

The Sea Dogs fell 4-2 to the Drummondville Voltigeurs on Tuesday at TD Station, meaning they now trail 3-0 in the best-of-seven first round series. The Voltigeurs can complete the sweep with a victory Wednesday night.

While the final score was relatively close, the Voltigeurs carried the play most of the night, leading 4-0 at one point. Shots in the first period alone were 21-4 in favour of Drummondville and ended 49-21.

The Sea Dogs, who were missing two key forwards in Eriks Mateiko and Tyler Peddle, registered just five dangerous shots in the game.

Patrick Leaver once again played a key role in keeping the Dogs in the game by making 45 stops in the loss. Drew Elliott and Pavel Simek scored for Saint John.

Justin Cote scored a pair of goals for Drummondville while singles came from Maxime Lafond and Peter Repcik. Riley Mercer made 19 saves in the win.

LINEUP

Simek - Elliott - Beveridge

Laforge - Miller - Fournier

Calder - Groulx - Beaulieu

Benoit - Beaudry

Tivey - Ianniello

Bilodeau - Mann

MacLean - Amyot

Duhamel

Leaver

Robinson

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without forwards Eriks Mateiko (injury), Darrien Reynolds (injury) and Tyler Peddle (serving first game of a two-game suspension) along with defenseman Jeremie Richard (healthy).

NOTES: Saint John dressed 11 forwards and seven defensemen... Pavel Simek had a goal and an assist... Simek had five shots... with an assist, Egan Beveridge now has three helpers in three playoff games... Simek has two goals and two assists in this series... faceoffs were 40-20 in favour of Drummondville... the Volts have now won 10 straight games... attendance was 2,302... the 21 shots the Sea Dogs allowed in the first period is not a franchise record for a playoff game but it is up there.

Sea Dogs down 2-0 and outshot 21-4 in the first period. Not a franchise record for shots against in a single period of a playoff game, but in the ballpark. pic.twitter.com/8O4gjHT6Aa

— Jamie Tozer (@station_nation) April 2, 2024

HIGHLIGHTS

NEXT GAME: Game 4 of this series takes place tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at TD Station.