Pre-Season Game Day 5: at Newfoundland

Newfoundland Regiment

FREDERICTON - With their regular season roster nearly set, the Saint John Sea Dogs resume pre-season play tonight.

The Sea Dogs made a big wave of cuts on Sunday, reassigning 16 players. The cuts came after the Sea Dogs played four pre-season games, which included a Saturday night contest against the Newfoundland Regiment in Fredericton.

The Sea Dogs and Regiment will meet again tonight at Willie O'Ree Place. Game time is 7 p.m.

The Sea Dogs are still looking for their first win of the pre-season. Two of their three losses have come in overtime while their first game ended in a tie after five minutes of extra time.

As of Sunday, 14 forwards, nine defensemen and two goaltenders remained on Saint John's training camp roster. Tonight should give fans a better look at the team's opening night roster.

The Regiment, meanwhile, are a perfect 4-0 this pre-season. This will be the team's final exhibition game as their camp makes the move to St. John's. They won't play again until Sept. 18 at Mary Brown's Centre – the club's regular season opener against the Moncton Wildcats.

Radio/TV/Stream: None/None/Regiment YouTube

Pre-Season Records: The Sea Dogs 0-1-2-0 and have a tie this pre-season while the Regiment are 4-0-0-0.

Last games: The Regiment defeated the Sea Dogs 6-5 in overtime at Willie O'Ree Place on Saturday. Tyson Goguen scored a pair for Newfoundland while Max Dinneen, Tyler Wood, Aleksei Zhukov and Blake Pilgrem-Edwards added solo markers. Angelo Fullerton scored twice for Saint John while Alexis Gauthier, Olivier Duhamel and Kaidan Sahajpal added singles. Antoine Proulx allowed four goals on 30 shots in the first half of the game for Newfoundland while Chase Anderson allowed a goal on 17 shots in the second half. David Di Girolamo allowed two goals on 12 shots in the first half of the game for Saint John while Sam Pitcher allowed four goals on 16 shots in the second half.

2024-25 records: The Sea Dogs finished 21-43-0-0 for 42 points (sixth Maritimes/10th Eastern/17th QMJHL) last season while the Regiment – as the Acadie-Bathurst Titan – where 33-28-2-1 for 69 points (third Maritimes/sixth Eastern/11th QMJHL)

2024-25 head-to-head: The Sea Dogs were 4-4-0-0 against the Titan last season while Bathurst went 4-3-0-1 against Saint John.

Last meeting: See above.

Ex-Sea Dogs on the Regiment: None.

Notes: Saint John's most recent pre-season roster can be found here... the Sea Dogs made 16 cuts on Sunday... Newfoundland's latest roster can be found here... the Regiment have outscored opponents 19-12 this pre-season. Saint John has been outscored 15-10... Angelo Fullerton leads Saint John in scoring with three goals. Two of those came on Saturday against Newfoundland... Justin Larose leads the Regiment in goals with three... Louis-Francois Belanger, Marek Danicek and Lynden Larson all have three assists... the Sea Dogs have two pre-season games remaining after this one... these two won't meet again until Oct. 24-25 in St. John's.

Out of town:

No other games.

Next game: The Sea Dogs take on the Moncton Wildcats on Friday, Sept. 5 at 7 p.m. in Woodstock.