Saint John wins one-sided affair over Quebec

Battle for the puck behind Quebec goaltender Julian Galloway photo by Serge Poulin

QUEBEC CITY, P.Q. — Tied after forty minutes of play, Saint John roared in the third period scoring four times with three goals with the help of power plays leading the Sea Dogs to a 7-3 win. Drafted by the Ottawa Senators been the last one to be returned to his junior team defenseman Thomas Chabot ends his night with one goal three assists all in third period.

Taking the lead 2-0 after the first twenty minutes the visitors saw the home team playing much better scoring three times against only one for Saint

“We have been the kind of team that plays well in spurts and I think you saw it tonight,” said Saint John head coach Danny Flynn.

“We played good first period, in second we put our feet off the gas Quebec took full advantage of and in third we have been able to take advantage of power play goals to get the win.”

Dominating 5-1 in shots on goal Saint John opened the scoring on a shot by Sea Dogs right winger Spencer Smallman beat Quebec goaltender Julian Galloway between his pads 7:12 into first period.

Saint John added to their lead with 1:16 remaining to the first period. Making first two saves Quebec netminder wasn’t able to do anything on Adam Bateman wrist shot beating Quebec goalie high on left corner.

Face-off in Quebec zone between Saint John center Matthew Highmore and Olivier Garneau photo by Serge Poulin

A fight broke out with 46 seconds between Quebec left winger Zachary Moody and Saint John Adam Marsh neither one got advantage.

Scoring 13 goals in48 power play opportunities for 27.1 percent Quebec ended first period 0-in-3 with a man advantage.

A second fight broke out, this one in middle frame between Nathan Noel of Saint John and Dmytro Timashov, following a hit by Noel. As the Saint John forward went to his bench Timashov exchange words and both dropped the gloves; Noel got the advantage.

Quebec got on board playing four-on-four following minor penalties to Quebec defenseman Nikolas Bouillard and Saint John defenseman Jakub Zboril.

Driving to the net beating Sea Dogs defenseman Quebec defenseman Matt Murphy shot hit the post, be at right place at right time Matthew Boucher beat Sea Dogs netminder Marc-Antoine Turcotte scoring Quebec first goal his 11^th of the regular season with 14:44 remaining in the second period.

Quebec tied the game at two all 5:20 later. Losing the puck in his own zone Saint John defenseman Adam Bateman saw Quebec right winger Massimo Carozza taking first shot, unable to keep the rebound Charley Graaskamp jumped on the rebound scoring Quebec second goal at 10:36.

The visitors regained lead less than four minutes later. The second effort by Kyle Ward pushed the puck across the goal line behind Quebec netminder at 13:05.

Quebec scores a third goal in second period tying the score 3-3. Working behind the net Massimo Carozza found teammates Bronson Beaton right in the slot scoring his 11^th of the season with 36 seconds left in the middle frame.

Quebec goaltender Julian Galloway has been beaten between his pads on Saint John opening goal photo by Serge Poulin

Following a shot on Quebec goalie after referee blown his whistle a third fights broke out this time Matthew Boucher of Quebec dropped gloves with Adam Bateman with less than fight minutes in the period.

With the score tied after forty minutes, Quebec played well coming back in middle frame to tie the game at three all but four goals in third by Saint John leading them to what can be call a one sided victory by Bryan Flynn team. Thomas Chabot with one goal three assists played the hero in that game.

Goals by Daniel Del Paggio (7:50), Mathieu Joseph on power play (7:03),Matthew Highmore (10:16) also on power play and Thomas Chabot also on power play (10:31) ends the scoring portion of the game, but what everyone will talk about is what Quebec head coach said after the game.

After the game when reporter asked first question Quebec head coach Philippe Boucher began by saying, “I have had great discussion with Richard Trottier on things I perceived against our team, it is simple I told him this morning I said 200 games, I have 181 games coached in this league before the season began.”

“They asked me to get better on certain things I have to admit that it took sometimes before getting better on things but in 181 game I only got one warning. This year I got seven in 21 games, I got seven warning three minor penalties and one ejection.”

Saint John defenseman Thomas Chabot ends the game with total of four points 1 goal all in third periodphoto by Serge Poulin

“Tonight in third period the Carozza penalty wasn’t one his two minutes for unsportman like conduct I can’t see what he said to referee. We can’t see on camera it says nothing. I said,” are you fucking me Marc-Andre at 100 feet from him and he gave me a two minutes. He gave me a two minutes in game where you got 17,000 person in the Videotron Center you have great shot and we got our legs cuts. Simple question in first period did you see interference on last play you can go to get the picture or I will give you the image I saw the look he gave me like if I was an insignificant like if I’m like nothing. It is frustrating, he came to see me five minute later I asked again and he said no, I ask him can you tell me why you gave me that look? He answered me if I didn’t respect you I didn’t came to see you.”

“You can judged the work that has been done in third it’s him he did the whole job it became to be tough to be marked like red iron. I don’t know if it was the Memorial Cup I will do something else I swear I will do something else.” Ended Quebec head coach Philippe Boucher

Quebec will end a six games in last ten days and three games in three nights on Sunday afternoon hosting the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles.

Seven other games were on QMJHL schedule on Saturday night

Chicoutimi 4 vs. Moncton 5 (shootout)

Cape Breton 3 vs. Rimouski 6

Shawinigan 5 vs. Victoriaville 4 (shootout)

Baie-Comeau 4 vs. Halifax 5 (overtime)

Drummondville 3 vs. Gatineau 6

Blainville-Boisbriand 2 vs. Rouyn-Noranda 4

Charlottetown 1 vs. Val-d’Or 8

Contact the author at: serge.poulin@prohockeynews.com