The province’s two Quebec Major Junior Hockey League teams are on home ice.
St. Andrews’ Declan Smith and the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles host the Saint John Sea Dogs at Centre 200 in Sydney in their final home game of the regular season.
The Screaming Eagles (37-22-6), who have lost back-to-back games and three of the last four, are eighth in the 18-team league with 80 points, a point behind Moncton for seventh, and a point ahead of ninth-place Chicoutimi; the Sea Dogs (13-47-5) are 17th with 31 points.
Cape Breton has won seven of the first eight games in the nine-game season series.
The Halifax Mooseheads open a three-game homestand to close out the regular season when they host Pleasant Valley’s Jacob Hudson, Antigonish’s Jake and Sean Stewart and the Moncton Wildcats at Scotiabank Centre.
The Mooseheads (47-15-3), winners of two of their last three, are fourth with 97 points, a point behind Baie-Comeau for third, and are ranked sixth in the country; the Wildcats (36-20-9) are seventh with 81 points.
It’s the ninth and final regular season game between the Maritimes Division rivals; Halifax has a 6-2 lead through the first eight.
Both games get underway at 7 p.m.
