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.
The Sea Dogs are looking to hire a retail sales representative to work at the location.
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.
Pack OneGame 1 (Saint John vs. OHL, June 20) AND Game 4 (QMJHL vs. OHL, June 23) AND a potential tie-breaker game (June 26)Pack TwoGame 3 (Saint John vs. WHL, June 22) AND Game 5 (WHL vs. OHL, June 24)Pack ThreeGame 2 (QMJHL vs. WHL, June 21) AND Game 6 (Saint John vs. QMJHL, June 25)Pack FourSemi-final (June 27) AND Championship (June 29)
More details are available on the CHL website.
If you're interested in chilling in the Ice Bar during the Memorial Cup...
WORLDS UPDATEFans 19+ can take in the Memorial Cup action from ice level at the Moosehead Light Ice Bar!
— x - Saint John Sea Dogs (@SJSeaDogs) May 24, 2022
Tickets start at $100 per game for the round robin and $150 for the semi-finals and finals.
Call 506-657-1234 or visit the box office to reserve your spot! pic.twitter.com/b75sqlEY1Q
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 UPDATECaptain @ThomasChabot1 on @hockeycanada's overtime win to move onto the semifinals of #IIHFWorlds. 🇨🇦#SWECAN #IIHFWorlds pic.twitter.com/gtQ9wHEBHm
— IIHF (@IIHFHockey) May 26, 2022
The new mural located across the street from TD Station is looking good.
@Festivalinspire and #kevinledo bringing even more beauty to the @cityofsaintjohn. #mural #muralartist #saintawesome #uptownsj #tourismnb #discoversaintjohn #art pic.twitter.com/MLq1QI8UqI
— ICS Creative Agency (@ICSDesign) May 26, 2022
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.
Here is your QMJHL Draft order, post lottery! @ScoutingService pic.twitter.com/u37dLYF6GY
— Alex Pilote (@alex_pilote) May 24, 2022
OTHER THINGS
- A disturbing story from TSN's Rick Westhead on Hockey Canada and the CHL settling a lawsuit over alleged sexual assault involving members of the 2017-18 world junior team.
- Saltwire has a story on former Sea Dogs forward Dawson Stairs, who is enjoying his first playoff run with the Charlottetown Islanders.
- The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review examines what the future may hold for Sea Dogs forward and Penguins prospect Raivis Ansons. The 20-year-old will likely be in the AHL next season.
- The Win Column notes that time is running out for the Calgary Flames to sign Sea Dogs forward Ryan Francis to an entry-level deal. Francis was a fifth-round pick of the Flames in the 2020 NHL Draft.
- The New York Islanders blog Drive 4 Five looks at what the team's roster may look like for the 2024-25 season - which could include Sea Dogs forward William Dufour.
- The Shawinigan newspaper Le Nouvelliste has been taking a look back at the 2012 Memorial Cup, which took place 10 years ago (!) this week. Part of their 10-part series examined the Cataractes' rivalry with the Sea Dogs that year. Those two Memorial Cup games between Saint John and Shawinigan were something else.
- L'Hebdo du St-Maurice examines how many players from the 2012 Memorial Cup made it to the NHL. Five Sea Dogs players from that team have appeared in NHL games.
- Charlottetown's Jim Hulton has been named the QMJHL coach of the year for a second straight season. He's the first coach to win the award back-to-back since Gerard Gallant did so with the Sea Dogs in 2009-10 and 2010-11.
- Acadie-Bathurst Titan general manager Sylvain Couturier resigned Friday after 20 seasons with the club. The move has been rumoured for some time as speculation continues to circulate that the Titan will be sold to Quebec businessman Steve Leal, president and CEO of Fix Auto. As Acadie Nouvelle reports, Leal is rumoured to be bringing in his own hockey operations staff. The team said in a press release that "the Titan ownership group wants to stress that the team is staying in Bathurst."
- Judes Vallee, the head coach of the Universite de Moncton men's hockey team, resigned this week, saying he wanted to be closer to family in Quebec. Vallee had been UdeM's head coach since 2017.
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