Recap: Sea Dogs lose 5-4 (OT)

FINAL: Newfoundland 5, Saint John 4 (OT)

Michael Hawkins/Saint John Sea Dogs

SAINT JOHN - It was a rollercoaster, one that ended in a heartbreaking overtime loss for the Saint John Sea Dogs on Saturday at TD Station.

Marek Danicek scored at 3:08 of overtime to give the Newfoundland Regiment a 5-4 win over the Sea Dogs. The Regiment improved to 6-0 against the Sea Dogs this season with two more games between the two coming up this week in St. John's.

It was an eventful night as it looked like the Sea Dogs, having one of their better showings of late, had a good chance of winning in regulation. Then it turned into looking like they had no chance of even getting the game to overtime.

Saint John led 3-1 in the second period and carried a 3-2 lead into the third. The Regiment then scored twice in the final frame to take a 4-3 advantage.

Just as the Sea Dogs were trying to start a late-game press, Everett Baldwin was called for a slash at 19:06, sending the Regiment to the man advantage. Saint John pulled their goaltender just to make it even strength and, at 19:47, managed to net the equalizer to send the match into overtime.

OG ties it shorthanded.

🚨: Olivier Groulx (18)
🍎: Dylan Rozzi#GoDogsGo pic.twitter.com/toxMZUU9Sy

— Saint John Sea Dogs (@SJSeaDogs) February 8, 2026

The Sea Dogs were able to kill off the remainder of the Baldwin penalty in extra time but couldn't stop the dangerous Danicek on an odd-man rush.

Luke Sinclair, Alexis Michaud, Justin Larose and Quinn Norman also scored for Newfoundland. Antoine Proulx made 29 saves in the win.

Groulx scored a pair of goals for Saint John while Maxime Côté and Angelo Fullerton had solo markers. Arseni Radkov made 29 saves in the loss.

The Sea Dogs have now lost seven of their last eight games and six straight home games.

LINEUP

Fullerton - Joseph - Rozzi

Côté - Groulx - Donovan

Morin - Yared - Héroux

Krayer - Gauthier - Seymour

Wasmer - Duhamel

Magnusson - Damphousse

Drabczynski - Baldwin

Radkov

Courchesne

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without forward Olivers Murnieks (injury) along with defensemen Cameron Chartrand (injury) and Vincent Croteau (healthy).

NOTES: The Sea Dogs went with 12 forwards and six defensemen again with d-man Vincent Croteau the final scratch... Olivers Murnieks remained out while Cameron Chartrand, who has been in-and-out of the lineup of late, was also out... former Sea Dogs defenseman Patryk Zubek was a healthy scratch for Newfoundland... Saint John unexpectedly wore their superhero jerseys for this game, which featured a number of first responders in attendance... the Sea Dogs scored on their first shot of the game... Newfoundland's Luke Sinclair and Quinn Norman both scored their first career QMJHL goals... Olivier Groulx had two goals and an assist... Alexis Joseph had two assists... Angelo Fullerton had six shots... officially, the game-tying goal was shorthanded even though it was at even strength... there were some issues with one of the goal posts in the Saint John end in overtime... the Saint John bench certainly did not enjoy the officiating in this game. Newfoundland went 1/6 on the power play while Saint John went 1/2... this game had a very similar vibe to Saint John's overtime loss to Newfoundland on New Year's Eve... Saint John is now 3-5 in overtime...  attendance was 3,707.

HIGHLIGHTS

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs travel to St. John's this week for games against the Newfoundland Regiment on Wednesday and Thursday. Game times are 6:30 p.m. AT.