Pre-Season Game Day 2: at Moncton

DIEPPE, NB - The Saint John Sea Dogs and Moncton Wildcats meet again tonight in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League pre-season action.

The Sea Dogs defeated the Wildcats 5-2 last night at Fredericton's Aitken Centre. Saint John will look to improve to 2-0 tonight when they battle Moncton at Dieppe's UNIplex. Game time is 7 p.m.

Other than letting up a bit in the third period, Saint John looked fairly solid last night in a game that featured mostly rookies. Penalties were a bit of an issue, and the team will no doubt try and clean up some of that in this game.

With this being the first week of training camp and plenty of players still around, both teams will likely have some new faces in their lineups this evening.

TV/Radio/Webcast: None/None/None

Pre-Season Records: The Sea Dogs are 1-0-0-0 this pre-season while the Wildcats are 0-1-0-0.

2021-22 records: The Sea Dogs finished with a record of 47-17-1-3 for 98 points (second Maritimes/third Eastern/third QMJHL) while the Wildcats went 28-31-6-3 for 65 points (fifth Maritimes/seventh Eastern/12th QMJHL). Both teams were eliminated in the opening round of the QMJHL playoffs. Saint John went on to win the Memorial Cup as the host team.

Last games: The Sea Dogs and Wildcats met last night at the Aitken Centre with Saint John posting a 5-2 victory. Cole Burbidge scored twice for Saint John while singles came from Reid Calder, Vince Elie and Danny Akkouche. Quincy-Nicolas Supprien and Ben Mercer had Moncton goals. Justin Robinson and Charles-Antoine Girard split the win in net. Eli James and Anthony Leblanc split the loss.

2021-22 head-to-head: The Sea Dogs went 7-2-0-0 against the Wildcats last season while Moncton went 2-7-0-0 against Saint John.

Last meeting: See above.

Ex-Sea Dogs on the Wildcats: None (defenseman Natan Grenier is a former Sea Dogs draft pick but never appeared in a game).

Random stat: With a goal last night, Vince Elie now has six goals and an assist in five career QMJHL pre-season games. Elie was a second-round pick of Saint John in the 2021 QMJHL Entry Draft.

Notes: Saint John's training camp roster can be found here... Moncton's camp roster can be found here... Cole Burbidge (two goals and one assist) and Reid Calder (one goal and two assists) each had three points last night... Moncton's top pick in the 2022 QMJHL Entry Draft, defenseman Adam Fortier-Gendron, did not play last night... this is the final meeting between Saint John and Moncton until Oct. 1.

Out of town:

Cape Breton at Acadie-Bathurst - 7:00 PM ADT

Val-d'Or at Rouyn-Noranda - 6:00 PM EDT

Gatineau at Drummondville - 7:00 PM EDT

Rimouski at Québec - 7:00 PM EDT

Chicoutimi at Shawinigan - 7:00 PM EDT

Victoriaville at Sherbrooke - 7:00 PM EDT

Next game: The Sea Dogs host the Acadie-Bathurst Titan on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Fredericton's Aitken Centre.