Sea Dogs resume pre-season Friday

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The Saint John Sea Dogs are back in pre-season action Friday night.

The Sea Dogs will host the Moncton Wildcats at 7 p.m. at Woodstock's AYR Motor Centre. It will be Saint John's first trip to Woodstock for a Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League exhibition game.

The Sea Dogs are still looking for their first win of the pre-season. They're 0-2-2-0 with a tie through five games.

This will be the fourth and final meeting between the Sea Dogs and Wildcats. Moncton has won two of them with the third ending in a tie after overtime.

Saint John will play one more pre-season game before the real stuff begins Sept. 19. On Saturday, the Sea Dogs will travel to PEI to play the Charlottetown Islanders at UPEI's MacLauchlan Arena. Puck drop is 7 p.m.

The Sea Dogs and Islanders have yet to meet this year. Charlottetown is also winless with a 0-3-0-0 record.

A few other news and notes...

• Guelph and Kitchener are the finalists to host the 2027 Memorial Cup, the CHL announced Thursday. The winner will be announced "between late November and early December 2025." Kingston and Niagara were also in the running. The 2026 tournament will be held in Kelowna. 
• Kubota has been named the presenting partner of the Memorial Cup. Shout out to tractors.
• Quebec City and Trois-Rivieres will host the 2029 IIHF World Junior Championship, Hockey Canada announced Thursday.
• Former Sea Dogs defenseman Giuliano Caputo has been named captain of the QJHL's Terrebonne Cobras. Caputo appeared in 16 games with Saint John last season.
• It could be a challenging first year of NCAA hockey for former Sea Dogs goaltender Charles-Edward Gravel. College Hockey Insider Mike McMahon projects Mercyhurst University to be the second worst team in college hockey this season – but also believes Gravel has a strong shot at being the team's No. 1 goaltender as a freshman.
• The QMJHL uploaded this video featuring some of Saint John's best plays from last season.