The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League announced its full pre-season schedule on Wednesday. The Sea Dogs' first game will be a 7 p.m. home contest against the Moncton Wildcats on Thursday, Aug. 19. The venue for the game has not been announced.
The following night, the Sea Dogs will travel to Moncton to face the Wildcats at the Superior Propane Centre - the usual venue for Moncton pre-season contests.
Saint John will play nine exhibition games in total. Like in previous years, the schedule has been split into two parts with five games taking place between Aug. 19-28 and the remaining four happening Sept. 10-24.
The Sea Dogs begin the 2021-22 regular season on Oct. 1 against the Charlottetown Islanders.
Here's a look at Saint John's pre-season schedule.
Thursday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. - vs Moncton (TBD)
Friday, Aug. 20 at 7. p.m. - at Moncton (Superior Propane Centre)
Tuesday, Aug. 24 at 7 p.m. - at Charlottetown (Eastlink Centre)
Wednesday, Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. - vs Charlottetown (TBD)
Saturday, Aug. 28 at 3 p.m. - at Bathurst (KC Irving Regional Centre)
Friday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. - vs Moncton (TBD)
Sunday, Sept. 12 at 4 p.m. - at Moncton (Dieppe UNIplex)
Saturday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. - vs Bathurst (TBD)
Friday, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. - at Halifax (Scotiabank Centre)
The Sept. 12 game against the Wildcats will be Saint John's first visit to the new UNIplex in Dieppe.
The venues for Saint John's home pre-season matches have not been announced. In the last "normal" pre-season (2019), the Sea Dogs played home games in Quispamsis, St. Stephen, Grand Falls and Fredericton.
It's always exciting to get hockey back, but there will no doubt be a lot of buzz around the pre-season this year. With pandemic restrictions hopefully (or at least mostly) gone my mid-August, these could be the first "normal" hockey games since March 2020.
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