Tough Weekend Ahead For Sea Dogs

SAINT JOHN – The Saint John Sea Dogs play their first three-in-three of the season beginning tomorrow night in Halifax.

The Mooseheads host the Sea Dogs tomorrow night at 7pm at the Halifax Metro Centre for their ‘Pink In The Rink’ game. The Moose will be wearing pick jerseys and the match will be played on pick ice.

It’s the first meeting of the season between Halifax and Saint John. The Sea Dogs will get their first look at super rookie Nathan MacKinnon who sits third in first-year scoring with five goals and 14 assists in 12 games.

The Mooseheads are one of the hottest teams in the league at the moment having won their last five games. They have a record of 8-4-0-0 and sit second in the Maritimes Division.

On Saturday, the PEI Rocket travel to Saint John to face the Sea Dogs at 7pm at Harbour Station. Like the Mooseheads on Friday, the Sea Dogs will be wearing pick jerseys in support of breast cancer research.

The Rocket sit last dead-last in both the Maritimes Division and the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with a record of 4-8-1-1 for 10 points. The Sea Dogs beat the Rocket 5-3 on September 18 at Harbour Station without the likes of Jonathan Huberdeau, Zack Phillips, Nathan Beaulieu, Tomas Jurco, Charles-Olivier Roussel and Mathieu Corbeil. Danick Gauthier had a hat trick in that game.

Saint John will host another super rookie on Sunday afternoon at the Station as Mikhail Grigorenko and the Quebec Remparts come to town. Grigorenko, the second overall pick in this past summer’s Canadian Hockey League Import Draft, leads all QMJHL rookies in scoring with 10 goals and 11 assists in 13 games.

International Scouting Services named Grigorenko theNo. 2 prospect for the upcoming National Hockey League Entry Draft in their October rankings.

Quebec enters play this weekend as the No. 6 ranked team in the BMO CHL MasterCard Top 10 Rankings. Their record of 9-2-1-1 is good for second in the Telus West Division and fourth overall in the league.