Several Dogs picks drafted into junior A

Saint John Sea Dogs prospect Reid Calder was taken third overall in this past weekend's Maritime Hockey League Draft.

Calder, 16, was selected by the Grand Falls Rapids. The Saint John native was a seventh-round pick of the Sea Dogs in this year's QMJHL Entry Draft.

Calder spent this past season with the Saint John Vito's, recording 11 goals and 10 assists in 26 games. He added three goals in seven playoff games.

A few other players with Sea Dogs connections were drafted into the MHL on the weekend.

• Saint John Knights defenseman Reed Pettipas, a 14th-round pick of the Sea Dogs in this year's QMJHL Entry Draft, was taken in the fourth-round, 48th overall by the Campbellton Tigers. 
• Moncton Flyers defenseman Jeremie Richard, Saint John's top pick in this year's draft (third-round), was selected in the ninth-round, 103rd overall by the Amherst Ramblers. 
• Cape Breton West Islanders forward Campbell MacIntyre, a 14th-round pick of the Sea Dogs in this year's draft, was taken in the 10th-round, 109th overall by the Ramblers.
• Former Sea Dogs forward Leighton Carruthers was a 10th-round pick of the Pictou County Weeks Crushers. Carruthers was a first-round pick of Saint John in the 2020 QMJHL Entry Draft and was later traded to the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies.

18-year-old forward Marco Martin of the Moncton Flyers was taken first overall by the Edmundston Blizzard.

There was also a trade in the MHL involving current Sea Dogs forward Olivier Picard, who had his rights swapped from South Shore to Campbellton. It's a notable move given that Picard will be an overage player this coming season and the Sea Dogs may not have room for the veteran forward.

Sea Dogs forward Marshall Lessard will also be an overager this coming season and is in a similar position as Picard. Lessard was taken in the eighth-round by the Granby Inouk in the recent Quebec Junior Hockey League Draft (the Quebec equivalent of the MHL).

A few players with Sea Dogs connections were also drafted into the QJHL this year.

• Benjamin Beaudry, a ninth-round pick of the Sea Dogs in this year's draft, was a second-round selection of the Terrebone Cobras. 
• Forward Chad Bellemare, a fourth-round pick of the Sea Dogs this year, was a fourth-round selection of the Valleyfield Braves. 
• Goaltender Olivier Brideau, a second-round pick of the Sea Dogs in last year's draft, was a sixth-round pick of the Gatineau Flames.
• Goaltender Charles-Antoine Girard, a 10th-round pick of Saint John this year, was taken in the seventh-round by the Saint-Jerome Pantheres.