Recap: Sea Dogs lose 4-3 (OT)

FINAL: Saint John 3, Moncton 4 (OT)

FREDERICTON - The Saint John Sea Dogs were able to get their offense going Friday night but it wasn't enough in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Moncton Wildcats.

Teddy Mutryn's goal 41 seconds into overtime gave the Wildcats the extra point in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League pre-season play the Aitken Centre. Moncton erased a 3-1 deficit in the win.

Saint John dressed a much more veteran-filled lineup compared to their previous two pre-season games. Returning forward Dylan Rozzi, overager Natan Éthier and newcomer Everett Baldwin all scored for Saint John.

The Sea Dogs struggled to generate much offense in their two other games this week – which didn't come as a big surprise given the lineups they dressed. On Friday, Saint John was able to get things going, firing 23 shots in the loss.

Rozzi scored on Saint John's first shot of the game, beating Moncton goaltender Jacoby Weiner with a perfectly placed shot top corner. The Wildcats tied it up nine-minutes later when Natan Grenier scored.

The Sea Dogs took a 3-1 lead into intermission thanks to goals from Éthier and Baldwin. At 14:57, Matthew Krayer dropped the puck to Éthier who beat Weiner with a low shot. Then at 15:17 and on a delayed penalty, Baldwin scored with a shot through a screen.

Elliott Mullen scored on a power play 1:43 into the second, redirecting a point shot/pass past Justin Robinson's pad. Then at 6:24, Mutryn beat Robinson clean with a wrist shot from near the top of the circle to make it a 3-3 game.

Robinson allowed three goals on 10 shots in the first half of the game while Raphael Courchesne allowed a goal on 13 shots.

Weiner played the entire game for Moncton, making 20 stops in the win.

LINEUP

Barlas - Groulx - Donovan

Éthier - M. Krayer - Rozzi

Fullerton - Dubé - Beveridge

Frenette - D. Krayer - Beaulieu

Metivier - Amyot

Zubek - Dunlap

Tatomir - Baldwin

Lumsden

Courchesne

Robinson

NOTES: The Sea Dogs went with a fairly veteran lineup with Olivier Groulx, Alexander Donovan, Matthew Krayer, Dylan Rozzi, Elliot Dubé, Egan Beveridge, Jacob Beaulieu, Patryk Zubek, Everett Baldwin, Raphael Courchesne and Justin Robinson all dressing for the first time this pre-season... Mark Lee and Tim Archambault ran Saint John's bench once again... Wildcats head coach Gardiner MacDougall returned behind the UNB bench and was honoured before the game... Egan Beveridge and Rian Chudzinski dropped the gloves in the second period but the officials broke them up before any fighting could start... Chudzinski had two assists in the game as did Grayden Robertson-Palmer... two of Saint John's three goals were unassisted... Alexander Donovan and Jesse Dunlap each had three shots... Dunlap had four hits... it was another fairly physical game with hits 15-7 Saint John... faceoffs were 36-23 in favour of Saint John, which isn't a big surprise given how many veterans the Sea Dogs dressed compared to the Wildcats... this was the third meeting in four days between the Sea Dogs and Wildcats. They meet again on Sept. 5 in Woodstock... attendance was a solid 2,331.

REPLAY

The game can be watched in its entirety here.

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs take on the Newfoundland Regiment tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at Fredericton's Willie O'Ree Place.