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Sea Dogs Sweep Quebec Road Trip with Win in Baie-Comeau

February 19, 2017 - Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL)
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BAIE-COMEAU - Nathan Noel's goal 1:15 into the second period held up as the game-winner as the Saint John Sea Dogs won their fourth straight game, 4-1, over the Baie-Comeau Drakkar, Sunday at Centre Henry-Leonard.

Thomas Chabot led the Saint John (39-13-3-1) offence with a goal and two assists while Noel, Joe Veleno and Simon Bourque added a goal and an assist each. Samuel Dove-McFalls contributed two assists.

Gabriel Fortier scored the lone goal for Baie-Comeau (19-28-5-4).

A scoring summary is available HERE [http://theqmjhl.ca/gamecentre/24932/boxscore].

Goalie Alex D'Orio stood tall for the Sea Dogs in the opening period with 12 stops.

The rookie's best save came with about seven minutes left after a turnover near the Saint John blueline.

Jean-Simon Belanger broke in alone and deked to his forehand before lifting a shot that D'Orio projected wide of the net with his blocker.

Chabot scored the only goal of the period with 18.6 seconds left.

The Ottawa Senators' first-rounder took a pass at the left point, stepped into the circle, used a toe-drag to move into the slot and rifled a wrist shot under the crossbar, past the blocker of goaltender Antoine Samuel.

Noel doubled the Sea Dogs' lead 75 seconds into the second period.

Chabot ripped a hard pass to the right faceoff dot where Noel stopped it, and then rifled a wrister past the glove of Samuel.

Noel, the 2016 draft choice of the Chicago Blackhawks, set up his team's third goal of the game four minutes later.

Veleno took a pass in the right circle, and then fired it across the ice to Noel in the left circle. Noel sent the puck right back to Veleno, where the 16-year-old blasted a low one-timer into a wide open net.

The game was delayed for more than ten minutes late in the period after Sea Dog winger Kyle Ward laid a heavy check on Drakkar forward Christopher Benoit in the Saint John zone. The rookie was injured on the play and required attention from therapy and medical staffs from both teams before leaving the ice on a stretcher.

The hit resulted in a five-minute penalty to Ward, during which Baie-Comeau scored its only goal with 1:15 left in the period.

Defenceman Xavier Bouchard slapped the puck down the ice from his own side of the red line. Fortier won a race to negate an icing call and chipped the puck past D'Orio's blocker to make it a 3-1 game.

Saint John wrapped up the scoring with a strange 3-on-5 shorthanded goal with two-and-a-half minutes to go.

The Drakkar opted to place Samuel just a few feet from their bench with a faceoff to D'Orio's left, expecting to bring him to the bench for a sixth skater. But Dove-McFalls won the draw straight back to Bourque, who one-timed it down the ice and into an open net as the goaltender scrambled to try to stop it.

D'Orio made 23 saves to earn the win. Samuel took the loss with 33 saves. He was named second star.

Bokondji Imama, who was honoured before the game for his two-and-a-half seasons with Baie-Comeau, was also recognized as the first star in the game. Chabot's three points made him third star in front of 2,007 fans in attendance.

Saint John's next game is Wednesday, February 22nd, at 7 p.m. against the Acadie-Bathurst Titan at Harbour Station. Tickets are available at the Harbour Station Box Office, or fans can save money and buy online [https://www.tickets.harbourstation.ca/Online/default.asp].

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