In a deal announced on Dec. 30, forward Cam MacDonald, who has family in Wellington, was traded by the Saint John Sea Dogs to Gatineau Olympiques for a first round pick and a second round pick (Drummondville) in the 2024 QMJHL Draft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
MacDonald, 19, was originally selected by the Sea Dogs in the third round of the 2019 QMJHL Entry Draft. He had 29 points in 27 games this season and a total of 117 points in 124 QMJHL games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Sea Dogs President and General Manager, Trevor Georgie, said that dealing MacDonald was a difficult trade to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEveryone loves and respects Cam here. He has been a strong presence for our group on and off the ice,\u201d said Georgie in a release. \u201cIt could be his last season of junior hockey and we wanted to give him an opportunity to push for another championship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MacDonald, an NHL Tampa Bay Lightning prospect, will be best remembered by Sea Dogs fans for his standout performance in the 2022 Memorial Cup Final scoring a goal and adding two assists against the Hamilton Bulldogs en route to being crowned champions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”188″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n He wanted to thank the Sea Dogs and fans for their support and opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve never seen a building as electric as during the Memorial Cup and the city was behind us all the way to the end,\u201d said MacDonald. \u201cThe fans played a huge part in our victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThank you to the Sea Dogs for giving me the opportunity to win a Memorial Cup and building the team that we had. Lots of memories came over my two-and-a-half years that I will forever be grateful for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLastly, thank you to my teammates over the years. It\u2019s hard to leave but I look forward to seeing these guys on the ice again soon. Thank you Saint John, champions forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”78″] [adrotate banner=”111″] WELLINGTON: A hockey player with ties to Wellington has been traded in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) In a deal announced on Dec. 30, forward Cam MacDonald, who has family in Wellington, was traded by the Saint John Sea Dogs to Gatineau Olympiques for a first round pick and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4420,4421,50,1141,4422,143],"class_list":["post-33409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cam-macdonald","tag-gatineau-olympiques","tag-halifax","tag-saint-john-sea-dogs","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Trade-Landscape-730x411-1.jpg\")