SEA DOGS - TITAN GAME POSTPONED

Tonight’s Quebec Major Junior Hockey League matchup between the Saint John Sea Dogs and Acadie-Bathurst Titan has been postponed due to inclement weather conditions in the northern New Brunswick area.

The game was scheduled to be played this evening at 7:00 pm at the KC Irving Regional Centre.

According to a QMJHL press release, “an announcement will be made in the next few days regarding a new date for the game.”

According to several reports, it’s been snowing steadily all day in the Bathurst region, causing some slick road conditions and all that good stuff.

QMJHL referee Jeff Hopkins, who was on his way to work a maritime junior ‘A’ game in Miramichi, tweeted earlier that “the guys going to Bathurst are supposedly at a standstill on highway.”

The Environment Canada forecast for Bathurst this evening:

Flurries ending near midnight then cloudy periods with 30 percent chance of flurries. Amount 2 cm. Wind becoming northwest 30 km/h gusting to 50 this evening. Low minus 7.

Last season, two Sea Dogs home games were postponed on the same weekend because of a large dumping of white stuff. Before those two games, a Sea Dogs game in PEI was delayed 45 minutes because the Confederation Bridge was closed to high sided vehicles.

In 2008-09, a game in Halifax was postponed because of trying road conditions in the southern New Brunswick area. Then back during the 2007-08 season, the Sea Dogs – Drakkar game in Baie-Comeau was postponed after two periods due to a power outage inside the Henry Leonard Centre.

Luckily for the Sea Dogs, a postponed game in Bathurst won’t cause as much trouble as a postponed game in northern Quebec.

The Sea Dogs play in Moncton tomorrow afternoon and then don’t play again until Friday night when they host the Titan at Harbour Station. This was scheduled to be Saint John’s only weekend on the road this month.

Puck drop tomorrow at the Moncton Coliseum is 4:00 pm.