Friday, May 27, 2022

Notebook: Sea Dogs opening new shop

SAINT JOHN
- A new retail shop is in the works for the Saint John Sea Dogs.

It was announced Friday that the team will soon be opening a Sea Dogs Styles location at the new waterfront Area 506 Container Village.


The area will be home to Bash on the Bay events during the 2022 Memorial Cup.


NOMINATED
Three Sea Dogs were nominated for league awards this week.

Team captain Vincent Sevigny was nominated for the QMJHL's best defensive defenseman award. Charlottetown's Noah Laaouan won the award.

Toronto Maple Leafs prospect William Villeneuve was nominated for the league's top defenseman award. Charlottetown's Lukas Cormier took home the honour.

Lastly, forward Nicholas Blagden was nominated for the QMJHL's Humanitarian of the Year award for his involvement in raising awareness around mental health issues. Charlottetown's Brett Budgell won the award.

MORE ON MACDOUGALL
A few more notes on the Gardiner MacDougall hire:

  • MacDougall and team president and general manager Trevor Georgie were on CBC Radio's Information Morning Thursday.
  • The UNB Reds have commented on MacDougall joining the Sea Dogs temporarily. "The Reds and the University of New Brunswick wish Coach MacDougall, the Sea Dogs and Sea Dogs’ fans all the best during the upcoming Canadian Hockey League championship tournament," reads the Reds website. Associate coach Rob Hennigar will run the Reds in MacDougall's absence.
  • Bill Hunt has a column on the MacDougall news in the Daily Gleaner (paywall) and asks a few critical questions on the unexpected hiring.
  • In the Sea Dogs' Tuesday press release that made the MacDougall hiring official, Georgie said that the team "identified a small group of winning coaches with experience having won tournaments. There are no active coaches in Canada that have prepared teams for and won more tournaments than Gardiner." On the Monday edition of Sportsnet's 32 Thoughts podcast, Elliotte Friedman said that he "heard they took some big swings at some other coaches." Jeff Marek added that "there were some names out there."

TICKETS PACKS
The Sea Dogs and the Canadian Hockey League have announced that two-game ticket packages are now available for the Memorial Cup.

The following two-game packages are being offered:

Pack One
Game 1 (Saint John vs. OHL, June 20) AND Game 4 (QMJHL vs. OHL, June 23) AND a potential tie-breaker game (June 26)

Pack Two
Game 3 (Saint John vs. WHL, June 22) AND Game 5 (WHL vs. OHL, June 24)

Pack Three
Game 2 (QMJHL vs. WHL, June 21) AND Game 6 (Saint John vs. QMJHL, June 25)

Pack Four
Semi-final (June 27) AND Championship (June 29)

More details are available on the CHL website.

ICE BAR TICKETS
If you're interested in chilling in the Ice Bar during the Memorial Cup...WORLDS UPDATE
Thomas Chabot and Team Canada erased a 3-0 third period deficit to defeat Sweden 4-3 in overtime on Thursday in quarterfinal action at the IIHF World Championship in Finland. Canada will now play Czechia in Saturday's semifinals.

Chabot, Canada's captain, had an assist in the win.MURAL UPDATE
The new mural located across the street from TD Station is looking good.
SAFIN RETURNS TO EUROPE
As Oilers Nation writes, former Sea Dogs forward Ostap Safin has signed with HC Sparta Praha in the Czechia league for the 2022-23 season.

The 23-year-old split this past season between the AHL's Bakersfield Condors and ECHL's Wichita Thunder. He had two goals and three assists in 23 AHL games and an assist in eight ECHL contests.

Safin, a fourth-round pick of the Edmonton Oilers in the 2017 NHL Draft, was continuing to slide down the organization's depth chart.

Safin spent the 2017-18 season with the Sea Dogs, recording 26 goals and 58 points in 61 games.

DRAFT LOTTERY
The Cape Breton Eagles won the QMJHL's Draft Lottery on Tuesday night, securing the first overall pick in July's Entry Draft.

The Eagles had a 43% chance of winning the lottery, the best odds of any of the teams involved.

The Victoriaville Tigres will pick second; the Chicoutimi Sagueneens third; and the Baie-Comeau Drakkar fourth and fifth.

Here's a look at the full first round draft order before trades are made/finalized.
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