Recap: Sea Dogs lose 7-3

FINAL: Saint John 3, Newfoundland 7

Jeff Parsons/Newfoundland Regiment

ST. JOHN'S, NL - After four straight one-goal losses to the Newfoundland Regiment, the Saint John Sea Dogs found themselves out of this one early and never able to get back into it.

The Regiment led 3-0 less than 10 minutes into the game and went on to defeat the Sea Dogs 7-3 at Mary Brown's Centre on Wednesday night.

Newfoundland is now 7-0 against Saint John this season with their final meeting scheduled for Thursday night in St. John's. The two teams are heading in opposite directions as the Regiment have now won four straight while the Sea Dogs have lost four consecutive games and eight of their last nine.

Tyson Goguen scored a pair of goals for Newfoundland while singles came from Liam Arsenault, Ryan Dwyer, Alexis Michaud, Dawson Sharkey and Justin Larose. Louis-Antoine Denault made 18 saves in the win.

Olivier Groulx, Maxime Côté and Vincent Croteau scored for Saint John. Rafaël Courchesne was pulled after allowing three goals on 10 shots in the first period. Arseni Radkov allowed four goals on 20 shots in relief.

The positive for Saint John is that the second half of the game wasn't as bad as the first, so maybe we'll see a tighter contest tomorrow. The Sea Dogs had seven straight power plays beginning in the second period, which helped. Saint John went 2/8 on the man advantage.

Newfoundland, meanwhile, went 2/5 on the power play.

LINEUP

Côté - Groulx - Donovan

Fullerton - Joseph - Rozzi

Krayer - Gauthier - Seymour

Morin - Héroux

Wasmer - Duhamel

Magnusson - Damphousse

Drabczynski - Baldwin

Croteau

Courchesne

Radkov

SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without forwards Olivers Murnieks (injury) and William Yared (injury) along with defenseman Cameron Chartrand (injury).

NOTES: The Sea Dogs had to go with 11 forwards and seven defensemen due to injuries... former Sea Dogs defenseman Patryk Zubek was a healthy scratch... Olivier Groulx and Maxime Côté each have goals in back-to-back games... a lot of posts hit in this game... a lot of Regiment breakaways in this game... Vincent Croteau's goal, which went in off his leg, was originally ruled no goal. It was overturned after a review... Nolann Héroux and Angelo Fullerton each had three shots... the Sea Dogs have allowed five or more goals in each of their past three games... attendance was 5,117 for this Wednesday night game.

HIGHLIGHTS

NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs take on the Regiment again tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. AT at Mary Brown's Centre.