For the first time since the Memorial Cup final, the Saint
John Sea Dogs will be broadcast live coast-to-coast on national television. The
Sea Dogs made the announcement earlier today in an email sent out to season
ticket holders.
The game on Friday, February 17th vs Quebec Remparts will now be an 8pm start time, doors open at 7pm, as this game will be televised live on Rogers Sportsnet.
Sportsnet started “Friday Night Hockey” this season,
which sees a Canadian Hockey League game get national coverage each Friday. As
usual, there have been hardly any games featuring Quebec Major Junior Hockey
League teams.
They made the right call on selecting this game to air.
The Remparts and Sea Dogs have been top teams in the league and entire CHL this
season and both squads have plenty of highly touted NHL prospects.
RJ Broadhead, Sam Cosentino and good old Rob Faulds will
likely be in Saint John for the broadcast. Jeff Marek and Damien Cox have been
running the intermission segments this year.
Of all the memorable moments about last year’s Memorial
Cup, to Sea Dogs fans, Sportsnet’s broadcasts were right up there. They
constantly pointed out that they were a young team, they mispronounced just
about every player’s name (something team resident Wayne Long even brought up
while speaking on the boardwalk on parade day), and Nick Kypreos was there
being Nick Kypreos. Ugh.
But hey, let’s end this post on a positive note. It’s
national TV. On a Friday night. At Harbour Station. Against Patrick Roy and the
Remparts. Should be fun.
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