Friday, September 20, 2019

Sep 20: Sea Dogs vs. Mooseheads preview

SAINT JOHN SEA DOGS VS HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS
Puck drops at 7:00pm
TV: Rogers | Radio: News 95.7 | Live: @HFXMooseheads
TD Station (6,308) ~ Saint John, NB


Welcome to the 2019-20 regular season! It will begin for our Halifax Mooseheads travelling to New Brunswick to take on the Saint John Sea Dogs at the newly named TD Station. After the third shortest summer in franchise history, the Herd made a bit of noise during training camp to figure out their roster. Gone are 3 of the club's top five leading scorers from last year as well as Xavier Parent and top defenceman Jocktan Chainey but that gives way to a new top line and an all-European second line. With Benoit-Olivier Groulx still away at Anaheim Ducks camp, these two groups will be messed up for this weekend at least. The Sea Dogs will most likely have another hard year but with their core a year older they should make games difficult for other teams all season. Saint John will have a special pre-game ceremony tonight as they are 'opening' their newly named arena with TD bank buying the naming rights of Harbour Station over the summer.

This is the first game of the season between these two teams. Last season, Halifax was 8-0-0-0 against the Sea Dogs while Saint John had a 0-6-1-1 record versus the Mooseheads. The last match-up between these two teams was on March 15 with Halifax winning 5-4 on home ice in a shootout.

Overall records
Mooseheads: 0-0-0-0 = 0pts (T1st in Maritimes division, T1st overall)
Sea Dogs: 0-0-0-0 = 0pts (T1st in Maritimes division, T1st overall)

Leading scorers
SNB: n/a
HAL: n/a

Out of Town
Titan vs. Eagles   7:00pm
Islanders vs. Wildcats   7:30pm
Foreurs vs. Armada   8:00pm
Tigres vs. Remparts   8:00pm
Phoenix vs. Saguenéens   8:00pm
Drakkar vs. Oceanic   8:30pm
Voltigeurs vs. Olympiques   8:30pm

After the Buzzer
The Mooseheads will travel to the island to take on the Charlottetown Islanders tomorrow night. Puck drops at 7pm.

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