QMJHL Saint John Sea Dogs

Sea Dogs Sweep Home-And-Home Match-Up with Shootout Win over Screaming Eagles

Published on November 1, 2014 under Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL)
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SAINT JOHN - Adam Marsh scored twice and added a shootout goal and Spencer Smallman had the shootout winner along with two assists, as the Saint John Sea Dogs came from behind to defeat the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, 5-4, in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action Saturday at Harbour Station.

Jakub Zboril and Matthew Highmore also scored in regulation time for Saint John (11-3-0-3) while Justice Dundas tallied in the shootout. The Sea Dogs took both games of the home-and-home match-up and have a two-game win streak.

Loik Leveille, Phelix Martineau, Clark Bishop and Jeremie Beaudin found the net for Cape Breton (7-10-1-1) in regulation time. Maxim Lazarev and Kyle Farrell scored in the penalty shot contest. The Screaming Eagles have lost four straight games.

Saint John goaltender Bobby Dugan, making his first career QMJHL start, had to be sharp in the opening minute.

The Seminole, Florida, product used his left pad to stone Bishop on a short breakaway.

The Sea Dogs opened the scoring on the power play past the ten-minute mark of the first period.

Zboril took a pass at the point, stepped into the middle and whistled a wrist shot over the blocker of Cape Breton goaltender Francois Brassard.

The Screaming Eagles used their own man advantage to tie the game about five minutes later when Leveille took a hard wrister that beat a screened Dugan in the Sea Dogs' crease.

Martineau netted the only goal of the second period, and it took only 95 seconds.

The rookie winger carried the puck on the left side and snapped a shot that was deflected, getting past Dugan's glove.

Juraj Siska had a chance to give Saint John its second goal with a penalty shot four minutes into the middle frame, but the Slovakian winger could not beat Brassard with a low shot.

Cape Breton expanded its lead five-and-a-half minutes into the third when Bishop, his team's captain, ripped a wrist shot from the slot that got past Dugan's blocker.

But Saint John responded with two goals forty seconds apart as the game entered the final ten minutes of regulation time.

During a 2-on-1, Marsh kept the puck on the right wing side and snapped a wrist shot the beat Brassard inside the far post.

Then Highmore, cruising in the slot, took a pass from Del Paggio and fired it past Brassard's glove hand to make it a 3-3 game.

Saint John thought they had taken the lead on the next shift when Mark Tremaine broke in alone and chipped a shot that Brassard juggled as he fell back toward the goal line. The play was reviewed, but the original no-goal call stood.

The Screaming Eagles got back on top with 1:20 remaining in the third period after Cameron Darcy fed a streaking Jeremie Beaudin, who redirected the pass beyond the glove of Dugan from the right side of the crease.

But the Sea Dogs evened the score again just twenty-five seconds later, with their net empty, and an extra attacker on the ice.

Nathan Noel picked up the puck in the right wing corner and fired a back-door pass to Marsh off the right post. The Chicago-native one-timed it home to create a 4-4 game.

Overtime would not decide a winner.

Maxim Lazarev opened the shootout with a goal for Cape Breton, going through legs of Dugan with a quick shot.

Marsh tallied in the second round wristing a shot just underneath the crossbar.

In the fourth round, Farrell gave the Screaming Eagles the edge by beating Dugan with a shot to his blocker side.

Dundas, needing to score to keep his team alive, calmly started a deke to his backhand and then whirled back to his forehand before sliding the puck inside the left post of Brassard's net.

After Cape Breton missed its fifth chance, Smallman won the game with a hard shot past the glove of Brassard.

Brassard was named first star despite taking the loss. He made 47 saves through 65 minutes of hockey and added two more in the shootout.

Highmore's goal and six shots made his second star while Marsh's pair of goals and shootout marker merited a third-star selection in front of 3,441 fans in attendance.

Saint John's next game is Wednesday, November 5th, at 7:30 p.m. against the Acadie-Bathurst Titan at KC Irving Regional Centre. Listen LIVE on 96.1 NewSong FM or newsongfm.ca. Watch LIVE online on QMJHL Live. Webcasts are now FREE through November 17th.

The Sea Dogs' next home game is Friday, November 21st, at 7:30 p.m. against the Shawinigan Cataractes. Tickets are available at the Harbour Station Box Office, online at harbourstation.ca or by calling 657-1234.

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