The Sea Dogs will host the Moncton Wildcats this evening at St. Stephen's Garcelon Civic Center, the opponent that swept them in the opening round of the QMJHL playoffs last season.
Both teams should look quite a bit different tonight. Both squads are at similar stages of training camp and have several cuts yet to make.
The Wildcats have already played two pre-season games, defeating the Newfoundland Regiment 6-4 last Friday before falling 8-2 to the Charlottetown Islanders on Saturday.
The Sea Dogs and Wildcats met last season in St. Stephen with Moncton posting a 4-1 win.
Game time tonight is 7 p.m.
Radio/TV/Stream: None/None/YouTube
Pre-Season Records: Moncton is 1-1-0-0 this pre-season. This is the first game of the pre-season for Saint John.
Last games: The Wildcats are coming off an 8-2 loss to the Charlottetown Islanders on Saturday. Noah Survilas and Evan Foiles scored for Moncton. Will Cole and Nathan Chenier split the loss in net. Saint John has yet to play this pre-season.
2025-26 records: The Sea Dogs finished 23-36-5-0 for 51 points (eighth Eastern/14th QMJHL) last season while the Wildcats were 50-10-2-2 for 104 points (first Eastern/first QMJHL).
2025-26 head-to-head: The Sea Dogs were 1-7-0-0 against the Wildcats last season while Moncton went 7-1-0-0.
Last meeting: April 1 at TD Station where the Wildcats completed a first-round sweep of the Sea Dogs with a 7-3 win. Preston Lounsbury netted two goals for Moncton while singles came from Alex Mercier, Gavin Cornforth, Teddy Mutryn, Gabe Smith and Kuzma Voronin. Saint John had goals from Angelo Fullerton, Zachary Morin and Olivier Groulx. Rudy Guimond played the majority of the game in net, making 19 saves. Arseni Radkov made 32 stops in the loss.
Ex-Sea Dogs on the Wildcats: Defenseman Max Vilen.
Notes: The Sea Dogs currently have 35 players at training camp with the addition of 20-year-old defenseman Joe Mense this week... looks like a number of freshmen will make their QMJHL pre-season debuts tonight, including Oliver Ozogany, Matyas Cancik, Nathan Riendeau and Lawrence Williams... we'll get our first look at some new, older Sea Dogs, including Mense, Ryan Howard and Thomas Charbonneau... here are the rosters the Wildcats had for an intrasquad game the other day... Moncton made a few roster moves today... it appears American defenseman Jake Boguniecki will play for the Wildcats tonight. The Boston College commit played with the USNTDP last year... these two teams meet again on Friday night in Fredericton.
Out of town:
Charlottetown at Halifax - 7:00 PM ADT
Rouyn-Noranda at Val-d'Or - 6:00 PM EDT
Blainville-Boisbriand at Gatineau - 7:00 PM EDT
Next game: The Sea Dogs and Wildcats meet again on Friday night at 7 p.m. at Fredericton's Aitken Centre.
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