Memorial Cup

[Chloe Gallagher]

Is anyone watching the Memorial Cup tournament? It's the championship tournament for the three Canadian Junior Hockey Leagues.

 

Right now the standings are:

 

1st--Saint John Sea Dogs 2-0

2nd--Owen Sound Attack 1-1

3rd--Mississauga St. Michael's Majors 1-1

4th--Kootenay Ice 0-2

 

Saint John is automatically in the finals because they will finish first.

 

A couple years ago the Windsor Spitfires won the Memorial Cup after losing their first two games, that was the first and only time that has ever happened.

 

Here is the link to the tournament website: MasterCard Memorial Cup Site

 

Next year Shawinigan (Quebec) will host the tournament, so their team the Shawinigan Cataractes will automatically be in the tournament, even if they finish last in the country.

[Trogdor]

Next year Shawinigan (Quebec) will host the tournament, so their team the Shawinigan Cataractes will automatically be in the tournament, even if they finish last in the country.

 

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[Chloe Gallagher]

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Are all 1,000+ posters with full rep trolls/spammers like this guy?

[Trogdor]

Are all 1,000+ posters with full rep trolls/spammers like this guy?

 

WHY THE HATE?

 

It doesn't make sense when a shitty team going 0-(whatever) can take the spot of a bubble team, that fought their way there, purely based on the location of the tournament.

 

I don't know shit about this tournament, just pointing out how stupid that sounds.

 

dont be so hurtful.

[Chloe Gallagher]

You're clearly just a troll, but this is how it works.

 

They main league (CHL) looks at the teams bidding for the tournament. This past season was the final in a rebuild for Shawinigan, Cape Breton just started a rebuild, and Saint John is finishing their second dominate season. (In Junior hockey it's incredibly rare for a team to be strong for three straight years).

 

Based on those projections, Shawinigan will have a dominate team next year.

 

There are times where the host team isn't a strong team, like last year the Brandon Wheat Kings had a free ticket in (as host), despite being eliminated in the second round of their league's playoffs.

 

It's like that for almost every tournament though. In the 2006 Olympics, Italy had a hockey team just because they were the host country. They got pounded too.

 

The only one that I know of that isn't like that would be the Super Bowl.

[Supa]

I'm a huge Portland Winterhawks fan and they just missed out on the Memorial Cup this year, losing to Kootenay in the WHL Finals. I still remember when we won the Memorial Cup in 1998.

[Chloe Gallagher]

My team has never made it out of the second round. I cheer for the PEI Rocket.

[Chloe Gallagher]

The Saint John Sea Dogs won 3-1 to make history as the first Atlantic team to win the Cup.

[Trogdor]

The Saint John Sea Dogs won 3-1 to make history as the first Atlantic team to win the Cup.

 

were they "trolling"?