Thursday, March 11, 2021

Notebook: When will the season end?

We could know more about the remainder of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League schedule very soon.

“It all depends on … if there’s going to be a Memorial Cup or not,” QMJHL Commissioner Gilles Courteau told The Guardian this week.

“As soon as we know what’s going to happen, we’ll be in a position to determine when the season is going to end.”

Courteau has repeatedly said there could be a decision made on the 2021 Memorial Cup in the next week or two.

In an intermission interview during Tuesday's game, Sea Dogs President and General Manager Trevor Georgie said he expects the schedule to ramp up soon and could see his club playing 15-20 games over the next several weeks.

The QMJHL originally planned to hold a 60-game regular season that concluded on April 3.

COMING UP
The Sea Dogs return to action this weekend with a pair of games.

On Saturday, the Sea Dogs will travel to Moncton to face the Wildcats at 7 p.m. Then on Sunday, the team will play their first home game since Nov. 14 when they host the Acadie-Bathurst Titan at 3 p.m.

The Sea Dogs are 2-2-0-0 against the Wildcats this season and have lost both games they've played in Moncton.

The Wildcats and Titan meet on Thursday night at Avenir Centre.

MORE WHL GAMES COMING
The Western Hockey League schedule is about to get a lot busier.

The Regina based hub, which will feature the league's Saskatchewan and Manitoba clubs, begins on Friday. Anderson MacDonald and the Winnipeg Ice play their first game of the season on Saturday night against the Brandon Wheat Kings.

The WHL's Alberta-based clubs have already begun play. The US Division begins play on March 19.

The WHL's BC Division, which was given the green light by provincial health officials last week, will begin play on March 26 with hubs in Kamloops and Kelowna.

MACINTOSH INJURED
Former Sea Dogs forward Aiden MacIntosh suffered an eye injury last weekend.
MacIntosh is fourth in Maritime Junior Hockey League scoring with 11 goals and 30 points in 24 games. The 19-year-old spent parts of three seasons with the Sea Dogs.

SMALLMAN RECALLED
Former Sea Dogs captain Spencer Smallman has been recalled to the AHL's Chicago Wolves.

Last week I wondered if the Wolves being a dual affiliate of Carolina and Nashville this season would hurt Smallman's chances of making the move up. Obviously not - and his numbers with ECHL Fort Wayne can't be ignored.

The 24-year-old recorded six goals and six assists in eight games with Fort Wayne.

GREEN LEAVES TEAM
Former Sea Dogs defenseman Luke Green, who was just recently loaned to Finland's Vaasan Sport from the AHL's Manitoba Moose, has apparently left his new team.
According to the Winnipeg Jets website Illegal Curve, Green "played just 1:47 in his first game for Sport on March 5th and then played 16:45 in his second game the next day."

QUICK HITS
  • The U Sports men's hockey championship, the University Cup, will be played in Atlantic Canada the next two years. The 2022 championship will be held at Halifax's Scotiabank Centre while Charlottetown's Eastlink Centre will host in 2023. Halifax began hosting the 2020 edition before it was cancelled due to COVID-19. This year's tournament was supposed to be held in Charlottetown.
  • Lynden Breen and the University of Maine Black Bears had their season end on Wednesday, falling 7-2 to the University of New Hampshire Wildcats in their first and only game of the Hockey East playoffs. Breen scored his third goal of the season in the loss.
  • The NCAA's Clarkson Golden Knights announced Wednesday night that they have concluded their season, releasing a statement with no further details. The team was in consideration for a NCAA tournament spot. College Hockey News reports that the shutdown is due to members of the team attending a party, which broke the school's COVID-19 protocols. 
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