The Sea Dogs dropped a fifth straight game away from home on Tuesday afternoon at the KC Irving Regional Centre, falling 5-2 to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan. It was the final regular season meeting in history between the provincial rivals.
The Sea Dogs entered the third down 3-1 and got within one when Dylan Rozzi scored on a power play at 15:46. Momentum continued to shift in Saint John's favour when they headed back to the man advantage at 16:28. But the tides turned when Mathieu St-Onge beat Nicolas Bilodeau one-on-one and flicked the puck past Justin Robinson at 16:44, making it 4-2 Titan with the shorthanded marker.
Bathurst entered the game with a league leading 10 shorthanded goals.
Tyson Goguen secured the win with an empty net goal at 18:28.
Liam Arsenault, Louis-Francois Belanger and Alexandre Lallier also scored for Bathurst. Joshua Fleming made 31 stops in the win.
Olivier Groulx had Saint John's other goal. Robinson, making a second straight start with Charles-Edward Gravel still out of the lineup, made 31 saves in the loss.
The loss drops the Sea Dogs to 16-18-0-0 overall and 6-11-0-0 on the road.
LINEUP
Morin - Groulx - Yared
Rozzi - Beveridge - Forlin
Peddle - Dubé - Cross
Calder - Beaulieu - Leard
Tivey - Amyot
Bilodeau - Mann
Bonnet - Duhamel
Robinson
Weeks
SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without goaltender Charles-Edward Gravel (injured or sick); defenseman Matthew MacLean (injury); and forwards Eriks Mateiko (world juniors) and Darien Reynolds (injured or sick).
NOTES: Charles-Edward Gravel missed a second straight game, so Evan Weeks of the Kensington Wild once again backed up Justin Robinson... recent free agent signing Parker Forlin made his QMJHL debut, finishing a -2 with no shots... Jonah Leard, a former Titan forward, was called up from MHL Grand Falls and made his Sea Dogs debut... defenseman Olivier Duhamel returned from injury, playing his first game since Nov. 29... Louis-Francois Belanger scored his fourth goal of the season against Saint John... Mathieu St-Onge now leads the QMJHL in shorthanded goals with four... the Titan wore their black third jerseys... the Sea Dogs went 2/5 on the power play. The Titan entered the game with the league's best penalty kill... this was the eighth and final meeting between the two this regular season. Both teams won four games... Matteo Mann was given a five-minute major and game misconduct for interference in the third period, putting a big open ice hit on Blake Pilgrim-Edwards. Saint John killed off the major... a Duhamel boarding penalty was reviewed for a major in the third but remained a minor... Nicolas Bilodeau had two assists... Dylan Rozzi has scored in back-to-back games... Tyler Peddle had five shots... Rozzi was a -4... attendance was 1,784.
HIGHLIGHTS
NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs visit the Charlottetown Islanders on Friday at 7 p.m.
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