Recap: Sea Dogs lose 5-1

FINAL: Saint John 1, Newfoundland 5

Jeff Parsons/Newfoundland Regiment

ST. JOHN'S, NL - Even in this new era of Newfoundland QMJHL hockey, the Saint John Sea Dogs' woes at Mary Brown's Centre continue.

The Sea Dogs fell to 2-11-0-0 all-time in St. John's following back-to-back losses to the Newfoundland Regiment. The latest loss came Saturday night when the Sea Dogs fell 5-1, the team's third straight defeat.

The Regiment led 5-0 after two and went a perfect 3/3 on the power play in the victory. They also scored shorthanded.

The Regiment opened the scoring at 7:39 of the first period with a shorthanded marker and quickly made it 2-0 at 10:07 with a power play goal. The first period wasn't overly one-sided, but the Sea Dogs had some defensive lapses and couldn't generate many quality scoring chances.

It was all Newfoundland in the second period, scoring three times and outshooting Saint John 14-3. Saint John's only goal came late in the third period with the game well out of reach at that point.

Dawson Sharkey, Marek Danicek, Noah Laberge, Dominic Pilote and Liam Arsenault scored for Newfoundland. Chase Anderson made 23 stops in the win.

Olivier Duhamel scored Saint John's lone goal. Rafaël Courchesne made 31 stops in the loss.

LINEUP

Rozzi - Murnieks - Morin

Krayer - Joseph - Yared

Fullerton - Groulx - Donovan

Beveridge - Dubé - Beaulieu

Vilen - Duhamel

Wasmer - Chartrand

Zubek - Baldwin

Courchesne

Robinson

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without forwards Natan Éthier (healthy) and Alexis Gauthier (healthy) along with defensemen Vincent Croteau (healthy) and Oskar Drabczynski (healthy).

NOTES: After taking two misconducts and a couple penalties in Friday's game, overage forward Natan Éthier was listed as a healthy scratch... the Regiment have won three straight... Saint John is now 2-3-1-0 on the road... Everett Baldwin had five shots... the nastiness from Friday's game didn't carry over... Saint John went 0/2 on the power play... Newfoundlanders Travis Crickard and Mark Lee were honoured during a first period stoppage again in this game... attendance was 4,558.

HIGHLIGHTS

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs travel to Cape Breton to face the Eagles on Wednesday at 7 p.m.