The two provincial rivals faced off in St. Stephen on Wednesday night with the Sea Dogs skating away with a 4-1 victory. Tonight, the two will meet in the provincial capital as the Wildcats host Saint John at UNB's Aitken Centre. Game time is 7 p.m.
The Sea Dogs played three regular season games at the Aitken Centre last season, losing two of them. Tonight they will be the road team.
Saint John had a pretty strong showing on Wednesday but we'll likely see several lineup changes from both teams. Both squads still have quite a few cuts to make before final rosters are set.
This will be the fourth game of the pre-season for the Wildcats but just the second for the Sea Dogs. These two won't meet again until Saint John's regular season home opener on Sept. 25 at TD Station.
Radio/TV/Stream: None/None/Wildcats YouTube (probably?)
Pre-Season Records: Saint John is 1-0-0-0 for two points this pre-season while Moncton is 1-2-0-0 for two points.
Last games: The Sea Dogs and Wildcats met on Wednesday night in St. Stephen where Saint John posted a 4-1 win. Jabez Seymour, Madison Bouchard, Ryan Howard and Kaiden Sahajpal all scored for Saint John. Brody Leet scored Moncton's lone goal. Sam Pitcher made 17 stops in the win. For Moncton, Jacoby Weiner played the first two periods and allowed three goals on 13 shots while Nathan Chenier played the third and allowed a goal on eight shots.
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: See above.
Ex-Sea Dogs on the Wildcats: Defenseman Max Vilen.
Notes: Saint John still has 35 players on their training camp roster... no Sea Dogs player has recorded more than one point this pre-season... Elliott Mullen, Noah Survilas and Preston Abbott all have three points each for Moncton... the Wildcats went 0/6 on the power play on Wednesday... the Sea Dogs and Wildcats met last year in pre-season play at the Aitken Centre. Moncton won that game 4-3 in overtime.
Out of town:
Saginaw (OHL) at Newfoundland - 7:00 PM NDT
Victoriaville at Drummondville - 7:00 PM EDT
Rimouski at Québec - 7:00 PM EDT
Sherbrooke at Shawinigan - 7:00 PM EDT
Gatineau at Val-d'Or - 7:00 PM EDT
Next game: The Sea Dogs travel to Woodstock on Sunday for a rare pre-season meeting with the Rimouski Oceanic. Game time is 4 p.m.
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