Sunday, September 4, 2022

Notebook: Memorial Cup content wanted

The Saint John Sea Dogs want your Memorial Cup content.

The Sea Dogs are asking fans to send in any Memorial Cup photos and video they have - whether it be from inside the arena, at home, the Container Village or anywhere else.


The 2022 Memorial Cup theme was One For All, and we want to showcase our community, our fans, and our fan-created content.

We may use your photos and footage to share with our players, and use in upcoming marketing campaigns. You may see yourself and your content online, on the big screen at TD Station, or even on TV one day.

If you would like to participate and share how you experienced and captured history, it’s simple. Just follow the below. Please send the highest-resolution versions of your photos or videos.

Please send any photos and videos from the 2022 Memorial Cup, Parade, or surrounding events to MemorialCupVideo@sjseadogs.com

Thank you for participating and sharing how you captured history. We look forward to seeing it through your eyes!

A number of fans have been asking if a commemorative book will be made, which was done following the team's 2011 Memorial Cup championship. In a response to a Facebook comment, the Sea Dogs said "that’s being discussed for sure! We’ve had a lot of fan interest in a book."

UP NEXT
The Sea Dogs return to pre-season action on Friday in Fredericton, hosting the Halifax Mooseheads a 7 p.m.

Saint John's final two pre-season contests will be against the Acadie-Bathurst Titan: Sunday, Sept. 11 at 3 p.m. at the Aitken Centre and Sunday, Sept. 18 at 4 p.m. in Lameque, NB.

The CHL announced Friday that 25 pre-season games from across the country will be broadcast for free on CHL TV over the next couple weeks. One of those games is the Sept. 18 contest between the Sea Dogs and Titan in Lameque.

The Sept. 11 match will be the first of four straight meetings between the Sea Dogs and Gordie Dwyer's Titan. Saint John will also play their first two regular season games against Bathurst.

SOME STATS
After five pre-season games, the Sea Dogs have a record of 2-3-0-0 and a -2 goal differential. After winning their first two exhibition contests, the Sea Dogs have dropped their past three.

The Sea Dogs, who are one of five QMJHL teams to have played at least five pre-season games so far, lead the league in penalty minutes with 73.

Free agent invite Tomasz Szczerba leads the team in scoring with a goal and three assists in three games. Cole Burbidge and Danny Akkouche are the only players who have scored two goals.

SEASON PREVIEW
The Sea Dogs have posted a season preview video, which includes interviews with William Dufour, Cole Burbidge and Travis Crickard.

Crickard explained that he is hoping to continue Gardiner MacDougall's positive environment.


RING PREVIEW
The Sea Dogs shared an image of the Memorial Cup replica rings that season ticket members will receive this year.
DROVER RELEASED
Former Sea Dogs forward Alex Drover did not make this year's Rimouski Oceanic squad.
Drover, 20, had 14 goals and 37 points in 44 regular season games with the Oceanic last season. He added three goals in nine playoff games, helping Rimouski upset Saint John in the opening round.

Drover has spent most of the past four seasons in the QMJHL with Cape Breton, Saint John and Rimouski. It's been reported by Quebec media that he'll join the Maritime Hockey League's Valley Wildcats.

D'ORIO HEADS OVERSEAS
Former Sea Dogs goaltender Alex D'Orio is taking his talents to Sweden, signing with Björklöven for the upcoming season.
The 23-year-old has spent the past three seasons bouncing between the Pittsburgh Penguins' AHL and ECHL affiliates. D'Orio was called up to the Penguins' taxi squad and to be the team's backup on a number of occasions but never appeared in an NHL game.

D'Orio spent parts of three seasons with the Sea Dogs, winning the President Cup in 2017 as the team's backup.

OTHER THINGS
  • This is it. This is the last weekend without Sea Dogs hockey until Christmas.
  • It looks like single game Sea Dogs tickets for the 2022-23 season will go on sale Sept. 13.
  • Former Sea Dogs forward Carter McCluskey was placed on waivers by the Cape Breton Eagles and was not claimed, reports the Cape Breton Post. The former Saint John Vito had 13 goals and 20 points in 55 games split between the Sea Dogs and Eagles last season.
  • The Halifax Mooseheads made a bit of a surprising move last week, trading Carolina Hurricanes prospect Bobby Orr to the Gatineau Olympiques in exchange for draft picks. Orr was a fifth-round pick of the Sea Dogs in the 2019 QMJHL Entry Draft but never played a game with the club.
  • The MHL's Edmundston Blizzard have acquired the rights to former Sea Dogs defenseman Brandon Casey. The 20-year-old spent last season in Alberta with the Grande Prairie Storm where he recorded two goals and 14 points in 42 games. Casey appeared in nine regular season games and three "playoff" contests with Saint John during the 2020-21 season.
  • The 2022-23 Val-d'Or Foreurs will feature former Sea Dogs defensemen Kale McCallum and Nathan Drapeau along with forward Francis Woods, a 2021 draft pick of Saint John.
  • Forward Eliott Simard, who the Sea Dogs traded last week, was listed on the Victoriaville Tigres' final roster for the 2022-23 season.
  • William Villeneuve was ranked 14th in Pension Plan Puppets' rankings of the top 25 Maple Leafs prospects under the age of 25.
  • Yan Kuznetsov was named the 11th best prospect in the Calgary Flames system by Flames Nation.
  • Speaking of Kuznetsov, the CHL website broke down the Calgary prospects who played junior hockey least season - which included a couple Sea Dogs defensemen. 
  • The Eastern Canadian Basketball League, which will include a franchise in Saint John, will try to launch again this March.
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