Recap: Sea Dogs win 4-3 (OT)

FINAL: Saint John 4, Baie-Comeau 3 (OT)

Kassandra Blais/Baie-Comeau Drakkar

BAIE-COMEAU, QC - It wasn't easy, but the Saint John Sea Dogs ended their six-game losing streak on Wednesday night.

The Sea Dogs erased a 3-0 deficit and scored four unanswered goals to defeat the Baie-Comeau Drakkar 4-3 in overtime at the building formerly known as the Henry Leonard Centre. Alexis Joseph drew a penalty in the extra frame and then scored the game-winner.

This was Saint John's first win since Nov. 20 and they certainly didn't make it easy on themselves. The Drakkar led 2-0 after one thanks to a Saint John turnover that led to a breakaway goal and an unlucky deflection in front of the net. Then just 2:19 into the second, another Sea Dogs turnover led to another Drakkar goal to give the home side a 3-0 lead.

To Saint John's credit, they didn't fold. Dylan Rozzi scored at 13:16 of the second and then Joseph cut the deficit to 3-2 just under two-minutes later. The goals seemed to give Saint John some added energy heading into the third.

Angelo Fullerton tied the game just 2:30 into the final frame and Saint John killed off a lengthy five-on-three Drakkar power play to ultimately send the match to overtime, setting up Joseph's heroics.

Justin Robinson made 25 saves in the win.

Alexis Michaud, Mattias Gilbert and Joseph Cadorin scored for Baie-Comeau. Samuel Caulfield made 37 stops in the loss.

After a tumultuous few weeks, this feels like a massive win for the Sea Dogs, one they can hopefully build off of moving forward. The Drakkar are the lone team that sit below the Sea Dogs in the standings and a loss in this game would have been a tough one to handle.

LINEUP

Fullerton - Groulx - Donovan

Rozzi - Joseph - Yared

Morin - Dubé - Gendron

Krayer - Gauthier - Beaulieu

Vilen - Duhamel

Zubek - Baldwin

Croteau - Wasmer

Robinson

Courchesne

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without forwards Olivers Murnieks (injury) and Egan Beveridge (healthy) along with defensemen Cameron Chartrand (injury) and Oskar Drabczynski (healthy).

NOTES: Defenseman Oskar Drabczynski was Saint John's final scratch... forward Alexis Gauthier appeared in just his 12th game of the season and first since Nov. 21... Drakkar goaltender Samuel Caulfield, a Boston native, made his first QMJHL appearance... Justin Gendron made his return to Baie-Comeau. Gendron appeared in nine games with Baie-Comeau this season before departing... Alexis Joseph scored his 10th and 11th goals of the season, making him the team leader in the category... Joseph has five goals in his past six games... this was Joseph's first game-winning goal in the QMJHL... Dylan Rozzi's goal was his first since Nov. 9... Olivier Groulx now has points in three straight games... this was just the second time the Sea Dogs went to extra time this season. No other team has gone to extra time less than five times this season... Saint John is now 6-6-1-0 on the road... Fullerton had six shots... the Sea Dogs went 1/2 on the power play while the Drakkar went 0/3... the Drakkar have now lost nine straight home games... announced attendance was 947, which might make this the smallest crowd the Sea Dogs have ever played a regular season game in front of.

HIGHLIGHTS

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs visit the Chicoutimi Sagueneens tomorrow night at 8 p.m.