Saint John Sea Dogs

The Saint John Sea Dogs are a professional Canadian Junior Hockey team from Saint John in the Province of New Brunswick, which plays in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Play their home games in the franchise from the Harbour Station.

History

In the fall of 2005, the Sea Dogs were founded after the Saint John Flames had left the American Hockey League and thus a gap in hockey was created in Saint John, which could be closed with a new junior team. His first as well as second season in the QMJHL, the new team finished in eighth place in the Eastern Division of the QMJHL, what they do not entitled to participate in the play-offs, respectively.

In December 2006, dismissed the Sea Dogs their player Dave Bouchard, after he had refused to sign a flag for the Canadian troops in Afghanistan. The coach Jacques Beaulieu later explained that although there had been problems with this player, however, that any player who had refused to sign, would have been dismissed. ( "It would not matter who it would have been. It could have been one of our best players, our first round pick. " ) Bouchard later explained that he thought that a player would have already been signed for him.

In the 2007 /08 season the Sea Dogs succeeded in their third season for the first time qualifying for the finals. In the playoffs, the team reached the semi-finals, where they failed in four games against the Huskies de Rouyn -Noranda. After Erstrundenaus in the 2008 /09 Head Coach Jacques Beaulieu was deprived of his office and Gerard Gallant hired as his successor. Under his leadership, the team excelled in the 2009/ 10 financial year the mark of 100 points in the regular season and was with 109 points, the best team in the regular season. Both offensively and defensively, the team had greatly improved compared to the previous seasons and was with 309 goals successfully in the regular season, for which the Sea Dogs have been awarded the Trophée Luc Robitaille. On 12 December 2009, the team won the 22nd season game in a row. Thus, the team reached the third-longest winning streak in the history of the league and the fourth longest in the Canadian Hockey League. Keep the record in the CHL with 25 wins in a row together the Kitchener Rangers (1984) and the Eperviers de Sorel (1973 /74). In the playoffs, the team failed only in the finals at the Coupe du Président against the Moncton Wildcats.

The Saint John Sea Dogs had in September 2010, her application for a potential host of the Memorial Cup in 2012 in Saint John, New Brunswick filed. In April 2011, the selection committee awarded the contract for the Shawinigan Cataractes start of the competition, which had also also enforced against the candidacies of the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles and Halifax Mooseheads.

During the 2010/11 season debuted Yann Sauvé, who aground for the Vancouver Canucks, the first player gedrafteter the franchise history of the National Hockey League. The Sea Dogs also held in the season 2010/11 their services at a consistently high level and exceeded on 10 March 2011 with the 54th win of the season ahead of team- internal record number of points from the previous season and scored again at least 300 goals. The regular season ended the team with 58 wins and presented by the league record of Eperviers de Sorel (1973 /74) and the Draveurs de Trois -Rivières (1978 /79) for most season victories. In the history of CHL only won the Victoria Cougars in the 1980/81 season (60 wins) and the London Knights in the 2004 /05 ( 59 wins) more encounters. The Sea Dogs lost during this season, a home game during the regular season and spread, creating a first in the history of the QMJHL. Of the 34 home games ended with just two defeats, both in the extension.

In the playoffs, the team placed successively against the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, Tigres de Victoriaville, Lewiston MAINEiacs Olympiques de Gatineau and the first time and won the championship of the QMJHL. In the decisive sixth Final game against the Olympiques de Gatineau, the team won 3-2 with a goal in the second overtime, the winning goal was scored by Alexandre Beauregard. Following this game Jonathan Huberdeau was named most valuable player of the playoffs with the Trophée Guy Lafleur. Due to this success the team first participated in the Memorial Cup. After the final victory against the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors, the team won the 2011 edition of the tournament of the same name and secured the most important trophy in Canadian Junior Hockey. Jonathan Huberdeau was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament with the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy. NHL Entry Draft 2011, five players of the team were selected in total, of which Jonathan Huberdeau third overall position, Nathan Beaulieu ( 17 ) and Zack Phillips ( 28 ) three players were selected in the first round.

The ensuing season 2011/12 was also crowned with success, the Sea Dogs finished the regular season for the third time in a row as a point best team in the league and were therefore the first team in the league history, which the Trophée Jean Rougeau for the third time in a row won. Danick Gauthier with 47 goals in the regular season and goalie Mathieu Corbeil- Thériault, which posted 37 wins this season, put on new franchise records. Well utilized was the Harbour Station with an average of 4561 visitors. Thus, the attendances were slightly higher than the champion season 2010 /11, when 4,478 visitors were registered in the cut. In the first playoff game of the season 2011/12 in March 2012, the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles were defeated in front of a crowd of spectators of 4917 visitors in the Harbour Station with 13:4, eight goals scored by the home team in the second period and made a league record by one. The American Charlie Coyle scored the first player in team history six points ( three goals, three assists) in a playoff game. A day later, the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles were clearly beaten again, 8-1 was the final result and Charlie Coyle was five points again the most successful actor.

Season statistics

Key to the season statistics: ( GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L or N = Losses, T or D = Draw, OL or ON = Overtime defeat; SOL or SON shootout defeat, P = points; Pct % = wins % GF or T = gates; GA or GT = goals against)

Franchise Records

Career

* Active player; Stand at the end of the 2011/12 season

Season

Former Players

  • Christopher DiDomenico
  • Alex Grant
  • Mike Hoffman
  • Scott Howes
  • Robert Mayer
  • Nick Petersen
  • Yann Sauvé
  • Felix Schütz
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