The Scenarios

The Saint John Sea Dogs could advance to the 2012 MasterCard Memorial Cup Championship Final tomorrow night. They could also be forced to play in Thursday’s Tie-Breaker game. That’s how wild this year’s tournament has become.

With each team sitting at 1-1 entering the final two days of round-robin action, it makes tonight’s and tomorrow’s game all that more important. Tonight, the London Knights take on the Edmonton Oil Kings and tomorrow the Sea Dogs face the Shawinigan Cataractes.

The losers of tonight's game will face the loser of tomorrow's game on Thursday in the Tie-Breaker game. The winner of the Tie-Breaker game would then play in the Semi-Finals on Friday. The Semi-Final winner would then play in Sunday's Championship Game.

Here are the four scenarios that could happen:

• If Edmonton and Saint John win: Saint John would play in the Championship Final on Sunday and Edmonton would earn a spot in the Semi-Finals on Friday.  Shawinigan and London would play a Tie-Breaker game on Thursday where Shawinigan would be the home team.
• If Edmonton and Shawinigan win: Edmonton would play in the Championship Final on Sunday and Shawinigan would earn a spot in the Semi-Finals on Friday.  London and Saint John would play a Tie-Breaker game on Thursday where London would be the home team.
• If London and Saint John win: London would play in the Championship Final on Sunday and Saint John would earn a spot in the Semi-Finals on Friday.  Edmonton and Shawinigan would play a Tie-Breaker game on Thursday where Edmonton would be the home team.
• If London and Shawinigan win: Shawinigan would play in the Championship Final on Sunday and London would earn a spot in the Semi-Finals on Friday.  Edmonton and Saint John would play a Tie-Breaker game on Thursday where Saint John would be the home team.

The loser of tomorrow’s game will have the hardest road to winning it all. They would have to win three games in four days which would be a very tough task. So, no matter what happens tonight, winning tomorrow is a must.

If tomorrow’s game is anything like the regular season games between the Sea Dogs and Cataractes, it should be a wild one. The two teams split the four-game series with both of Saint John’s wins being decided by one-goal.