Sports
The following teams are based in Saint John:
- The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Saint John Sea Dogs
- The National Basketball League of Canada's Saint John Mill Rats.
The following sporting events have been held here:
- 2010 Canadian Senior Little League Championships
- 2010 Jeux d'Acadie
- 2009 Canadian Senior Little League Championships
- The Saint John Flames of the AHL played here from 1993–2003, winning the Calder Cup in 2000–2001.
- 1999 World Curling Championships
- 1998 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
- 1997 AHL All-Star Game
- 1995 Skate Canada International
- 1985 Canada Games
- In 1867, the local The Paris Crew became the rowing champions of the world.
Saint John is also home to Exhibition Park Raceway, a Harness Racing facility that has been hosting this form of Horse Racing for over the past 120 years. Prior to 1950 it was known as Moosepath Park.
Read more about this topic: Saint John, New Brunswick
Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)