GDT: Sea Dogs vs Olympiques - October 20, 2007

[elementz]

dogbert said:

Last game I bought online. That's by far the best way. Just stop off at the desk in the middle of the foyer, show your cc, and they are in your hands. No line-up that game.

Or get season tickets and show up and walk right in the season ticket holder entrance

[briansjnb]

You don't even have to do that anymore. You can just print off the tickets.

[briansjnb]

Down 2 really quick, but now it's 2-1.

[briansjnb]

And they tied it up!!!

[bjindaho]

Amyot with his first ever Q league goal!!! 2-2 after one.

[briansjnb]

3-2! Didooooo

Edit: Or not. The Q site is having a hard time keeping updated. Apparently Gat scored one before that, so we made it 3-3.

[bjindaho]

They lose in SO. Refereeing again putting a black spot on the game.

[briansjnb]

Hard loss. Hopefully they can pull it together tomorrow night. Looking forward to attending the game.

[Gallant-Unit(14-0-3)]

heart breaking game. I feel bad for Fullerton. Lets the P.S. goal and all 3 S.O.

Congrats to A-A-A-Myot(I dont like that)

Lets win tomarrow. i didnt expect to win. I knew Gat would win if it went to shootout

[dogcatcher]

OLYMPIQUES EDGE SEA DOGS 5-4

IN A SHOOTOUT AT HARBOUR STATION

Chris DiDomenico Scores Twice As Saint John Drops Heartbreaker to Gatineau

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Saturday, October 20, 2007

SAINT JOHN, NB --- The Saint John Sea Dogs and Gatineau Olympiques staged an epic battle against one another on Saturday night, taking part in a hard-fought, back-and-forth affair at Harbour Station that saw several swings in momentum, countless big plays, and several notable performances at both ends of the ice.

After regulation play and overtime had failed to produce a winner, a post-OT shootout was staged, with Gatineau scoring on all three of their attempts to earn the road victory in front of over 4,600 patrons at Harbour Station.

Chris DiDomenico scored twice for Saint John on Saturday while Pascal Amyot and Keven Charland chipped in with one goal apiece for the home team. The Olympiques received quantitative offensive production from Claude Giroux, Matthew Pistilli, Paul Byron, and Jean-Philip Chabot on Saturday, with Maxime Clermont picking up the win in goal.

The Olympique struck early on Saturday, with Giroux finishing off an odd-man rush by firing a hard one-timer past Travis Fullerton to earn his 10th goal of the season 2:32 into the opening period. Gatineau scored again 18 seconds later, taking a 2-0 lead on the strength of Jean-Philip Chabot’s fourth tally of the year.

Chris DiDomenico cut the visitors’ lead in half at the 11:06 mark of the first period, beating Clermont to the short side on a semi-breakaway for his 8th goal of 2007-08. Pascal Amyot then tied things up at two apiece, scoring his first career goal with a well-placed point shot on the power play with 6:25 remaining in the first. Amyot’s goal proved to be the final tally of the opening twenty, and the first intermission got underway with the Harbour Station scoreboard reading 2-2.

On a two-on-one break early in the second, Payton Liske nearly gave Saint John their first lead of the night, wiring a high wrist shot that Clermont managed to get a glove on to keep things all square. Gatineau’s goalie continued his strong play in net throughout the duration of the middle period, making several spectacular stops as the Sea Dogs applied heavy offensive pressure throughout the frame.

Travis Fullerton was also impressive between the pipes in the second, turning aside all nine Olympiques shots he faced as the match remained tied at two apiece as the evening contest’s forty minute mark was reached.

Three minutes into the third period, Olympiques right wing Matthew Pistilli was awarded a penalty shot after being hauled down by David Stich on a breakaway. Pistilli made no mistake on his attempt, beating Fullerton with a high shot to put Gatineau up 3-2 early in regulation’s final frame.

The Sea Dogs didn’t wait long to tie things back up, as Chris DiDomenico netted his second tally of the night, tapping home a rebound off of a David Stich slap shot at the 3:47 mark of the third to make the score 3-3. Seven minutes later, Keven Charland put the home team up by one, unleashing a bullet of a snap shot from the slot that beat Clermont low and earned the 18-year old his third goal of the season.

With only 1:20 remaining in regulation, the Olympiques re-tied the match 4-4, as Paul Byron managed to sneak a backhand shot past Fullerton to send the game to overtime.

After neither team was able to produce a goal during the extra session, a shootout was then required to determine a winner on Saturday.

Matthew Pistilli scored on the opening shot of the shootout, beating Fullerton with a high backhand shot. Alex Grant responded for Saint John, fooling Clermont with a similar move to tie the breakaway contest 1-1.

The Olympique went up 2-1 in the shootout when Paul Byron scored on a wrist shot in the second round and Chris DiDomenico was denied on his attempt by Clermont. Gatineau sealed the victory in round number three, as Claude Giroux scored after putting forth an impressive deking demonstration in Saint John’s zone.

Up next for the Sea Dogs is a Sunday afternoon tilt versus the Rimouski Oceanic. The action gets underway at Harbour Station at 4:00pm.

[elementz]

Good effort, we outplayed them. I have mixed feelings with the 1 point. It's nice that we came back from being down 2-0 3 minutes into the game, but it sucked when they tied the game with a minute left.

Bring on the Nics

[Gallant-Unit(14-0-3)]

did Giroux even shoot on the last shot or let it roll in. I had a bad view