Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Sea Dogs Returning To Sportsnet


SAINT JOHN – Jonathan Hoobadoo, Nathan Bowl-yeah, Tomas Jerko and Gerald Gallant are returning to Sportsnet next month.

For the first time since the Memorial Cup final, the Saint John Sea Dogs will be broadcast live coast-to-coast on national television. The Sea Dogs made the announcement earlier today in an email sent out to season ticket holders.

The game on Friday, February 17th vs Quebec Remparts will now be an 8pm start time, doors open at 7pm, as this game will be televised live on Rogers Sportsnet.

Sportsnet started “Friday Night Hockey” this season, which sees a Canadian Hockey League game get national coverage each Friday. As usual, there have been hardly any games featuring Quebec Major Junior Hockey League teams.

They made the right call on selecting this game to air. The Remparts and Sea Dogs have been top teams in the league and entire CHL this season and both squads have plenty of highly touted NHL prospects.

RJ Broadhead, Sam Cosentino and good old Rob Faulds will likely be in Saint John for the broadcast. Jeff Marek and Damien Cox have been running the intermission segments this year.

Of all the memorable moments about last year’s Memorial Cup, to Sea Dogs fans, Sportsnet’s broadcasts were right up there. They constantly pointed out that they were a young team, they mispronounced just about every player’s name (something team resident Wayne Long even brought up while speaking on the boardwalk on parade day), and Nick Kypreos was there being Nick Kypreos. Ugh.

But hey, let’s end this post on a positive note. It’s national TV. On a Friday night. At Harbour Station. Against Patrick Roy and the Remparts. Should be fun.

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