If it feels like it's been forever since the Saint John Sea Dogs won a game, that's because it pretty much has been. Saturday's loss to the Sherbrooke Phoenix was the club's 16th straight loss. Their last win was on Oct. 9 - which is nearly two months ago now.
The Sea Dogs are now tied with the 1971-72 Laval National and the 1989-90 Drummondville Voltigeurs for the ninth longest losing streak in QMJHL history. They still have a ways to go to reach the longest losing skid - that belongs to the 1975-76 Shawinigan Dynamos club that won nine games all season - which is 27 games.
Of course, we all remember the Moncton Wildcats' 25-game mark a couple years ago. The major difference between that streak and Saint John's is that Moncton was tanking that season for Alexis Lafreniere which, as well know, didn't work out as planned.
The Sea Dogs, unfortunately, do not have their own first round pick in the 2019 QMJHL Entry Draft, which is no doubt making this losing skid harder to swallow. Saint John traded that pick to the Val-d'Or Foreurs in the Julien Gauthier trade.
The good news: Saint John still has a realistic chance of being in the draft lottery. They own the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada's top pick, who currently sit just a couple spots out of lottery position at the moment.
Saint John will try and end their streak on Wednesday night in Sydney. The team will also be looking for their first road win of the season.
How long do we have to wait to have to wait for DIxson to be replaced
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There is a lot of problems with the team this year, but I believe that Dixon isn't doing his job and managing these problems. I see a lot of season ticket holders who are not showing up for games and commenting that they can't even give their tickets away to anyone for free. Another problem with the attendance is there is to much TV coverage of local games (why pay to go to the game when you can sit home and watch for free, no food cost and parking fees) and no road radio coverage (harder to keep up with the team when they are away for 2 weeks at a time, thus fans lose interest in the team and their performance). I find the organization as a whole is just in bad shape.
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