Parents and players are descending on Saint John for the Sea Dogs training camp underway now.
Hopeful 17 year old Gabriel Tessier is from Chateaugay, Quebec is trying out for the first time and is good friends with Sea Dog Olivier Leblanc.
He tells us it's exciting but he's also nervous but more excited than anything.
The team's roster will be split into two squads with Team A and Team B playing each other tomorrow morning at 11am at Harbour Station.
One dad here with his son who is trying out tells CHSJ News it was scramble getting here because they didn't know officially until Monday night.
The Dogs' exhibition schedule starts on Saturday at the qplex versus the Acadie-Bathurst Titan.