We could finally, maybe, perhaps find out who will host the 2022 Memorial Cup in the coming days. This according to le Journal de Quebec's Kevin Dube, who reports an announcement could be made Wednesday.
Tout demeure encore à être confirmé, mais l'annonce de la ville hôtesse de la Coupe Memorial 2022 devrait (finalement!) se faire mercredi en avant-midi.
— Kevin Dubé (@KDubeJDQ) September 20, 2021
This means Wednesday morning will either be one of the great moments in Saint John Sea Dogs franchise history or another painful loss. The team came up short to Shawinigan the last time they bid in 2012.
The Sea Dogs and Quebec Remparts are the only two teams bidding to host the tournament. Mikael Lalancette had a great breakdown of the two teams and cities in le Soleil.
The tournament will be held June 3-12, 2022.
The easy pick here is the Remparts because, well, it's Quebec City and it's the Remparts. But as we all learned in 2012, there is a lot more to these bids than counting a city's hotel rooms and arena capacity. Saint John should, in theory, benefit from losing its previous bid - much like Shawinigan did 10 years ago.
I'd be more confident in Saint John's bid if the past year-and-a-half hadn't been a global disaster. If the QMJHL/CHL want to bring the Memorial Cup back from its pandemic break in one of the league's best and biggest buildings, it's hard to fault them for that.
Having said all that, I think this has a chance of going either way. We'll see what happens Wednesday.
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