The Sea Dogs led 3-0 in the first period and were up 4-2 and 5-3 at other points of the contest. The Regiment netted three goals in the third period and Tyson Goguen scored the winner on a power play at 3:37 of overtime, improving Newfoundland's Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League pre-season record to 4-0.
The Sea Dogs, meanwhile, are still looking for their first win – and they came painfully close in this game. Saint John controlled much of the play in the first half of the game but couldn't hold onto the lead. Shots ended 47-28 in favour of Saint John.
The Sea Dogs, meanwhile, are still looking for their first win – and they came painfully close in this game. Saint John controlled much of the play in the first half of the game but couldn't hold onto the lead. Shots ended 47-28 in favour of Saint John.
Saint John's lineup was mostly filled with players who are on the bubble as more roster cuts are imminent. For many, this was their final chance to make an impression.
Angelo Fullerton scored twice for Saint John while Alexis Gauthier, Olivier Duhamel and Kaidan Sahajpal added singles. David Di Girolamo allowed two goals on 12 shots in the first half of the game while Sam Pitcher allowed four goals on 16 shots in the second half.
Angelo Fullerton scored twice for Saint John while Alexis Gauthier, Olivier Duhamel and Kaidan Sahajpal added singles. David Di Girolamo allowed two goals on 12 shots in the first half of the game while Sam Pitcher allowed four goals on 16 shots in the second half.
Tyson Goguen scored a pair for Newfoundland while Max Dinneen, Tyler Wood, Aleksei Zhukov and Blake Pilgrem-Edwards added solo markers. Antoine Proulx allowed four goals on 30 shots in the first half of the game while Chase Anderson allowed a goal on 17 shots in the second half.
Fullerton opened the scoring just 1:40 in, redirecting a Christopher Barlas point shot. Then at 7:52, Gauthier put in a rebound to double Saint John's lead. The Sea Dogs made it 3-0 at 9:17 when Zachary Morin fed Duhamel, who was streaking into the zone and beat Proulx with a low shot.
Fullerton opened the scoring just 1:40 in, redirecting a Christopher Barlas point shot. Then at 7:52, Gauthier put in a rebound to double Saint John's lead. The Sea Dogs made it 3-0 at 9:17 when Zachary Morin fed Duhamel, who was streaking into the zone and beat Proulx with a low shot.
Newfoundland got on the board late in the first when Goguen scored, a goal that saw the puck get behind Di Girolamo and roll in. That made it 3-1 Saint John after one with shots 21-8 in favour of the Dogs.
The Regiment got within one at 4:07 of the second period when Dinneen batted the puck past Di Girolamo. But the Sea Dogs were able to restore their two-goal lead at 9:51 when Sahajpal beat Proulx with a backhand shot.
In the third, Wood got Newfoundland within one at 3:48 only to have Fullerton get Saint John's insurance back at 7:57.
Zhukov got Newfoundland within one again at 13:12 when he fired home a power play goal. Then at 14:05, Mathieu St-Onge fed Pilgrem-Edwards on a shorthanded two-on-one to tie the game at 5-5.
In overtime, Oskar Drabczynski took a holding penalty at 2:54, setting up Goguen's man advantage winner at 3:37.
LINEUP
Héroux - Sahajpal - Morin
Fullerton - Barlas - Campbell
Reynolds - D. Krayer - Donateli
Frenette - Gauthier - Calder
Lumsden - Tatomir
Croteau - Drabczynski
Amyot - Duhamel
Shahi
Di Girolamo
Pitcher
NOTES: Goaltender David Di Girolamo, who the Sea Dogs announced earlier in the day has joined the team's training camp on a loan from the Val-d'Or Foreurs, got the start in net... goaltender Sam Pitcher, a Newfoundlander, played the second half of the game... Mark Lee and Tim Archambault ran the Sea Dogs bench once again... Angelo Fullerton scored his second and third goals of the pre-season... Max Dinneen was awarded a penalty shot in the first period but was stopped on a low shot... Dylan Krayer took a puck to the face in the third period but stayed in the game... Olivier Duhamel and Angelo Fullerton each had five shots... Reid Calder was the only Sea Dog without a shot on goal... there were a number of "almost fights" in this game but they were broken up before anything could start... the Regiment went 2/3 on the power play while the Sea Dogs went 1/6... hits were 21-16 in favour of Saint John... there were four first-round picks from the 2025 QMJHL Entry Draft playing in this game: Saint John's Nolann Héroux along with Newfoundland's Benjamin Veitch, Quinn Norman and Phenwick MacLean... three of Saint John's four pre-season games have gone to overtime... almost every song Alan Doyle has ever made was played at this game... this was the second time the Sea Dogs have played at Fredericton's Willie O'Ree Place and the first since 2009. They were the road team in both games... this was the first of two pre-season meetings between the Sea Dogs and Regiment. They don't meet in regular season play until late October in St. John's.
REPLAY
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NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs and Regiment meet again on Thursday night at 7 p.m. at Willie O'Ree Place.
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