Ninety Years. Ninety Memorial Cups. Ninety Stories
Written by Bob Duff
Brad Richards was MVP of the 2000 Memorial Cup tournament with the Rimouski Oceanic and Conn Smythe Trophy winner as Stanley Cup playoff MVP with the 2003–04 Tampa Bay Lightning.
Wendell Young is the only goaltender to win Memorial (1982 Kitchener Rangers), Stanley (1990–91,1991–92 Pittsburgh Penguins), Calder(1987–88 Hershey Bears) and Turner (1997–98,1999–2000 Chicago Wolves) Cup titles.
Medicine Hat Tigers captain Dean Chynoweth accepted the 1988 Memorial Cup Trophy from his father, CHL president Ed Chynoweth.
Doug Gilmour (1981 Cornwall Royals,1989 Calgary Flames) and Andy Bathgate (1952 Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters, 1964 Toronto Maple Leafs) scored Memorial and Stanley Cup–winning goals.
Captain Clarence (Hap) Day’s Toronto Maple Leafs lost the Stanley Cup final to Detroit on April 11, 1936. Two days later, coach Day guided the Toronto Nationals to the Memorial Cup over the Saskatoon Wesleys.
Ron Ellis, Mike Walton and Pete Stemkowski were teammates on the 1964 Memorial Cup–champion Toronto Marlboros and the 1967 Stanley Cup–champion Toronto Maple Leafs.
Murray Murdoch captained the University of Manitoba to the 1923 Memorial Cup, then set an NHL record for consecutive games, playing the first 613 contests in New York Rangers history.
Rejean Houle (1968–69 Montreal Jr. Canadiens), Gilbert Perreault (1969–70 Montreal Jr. Canadiens), Guy Lafleur (1970–71 Quebec Remparts), Greg Joly (1973–74 Regina Pats) and Dale Hawerchuk (1980–81 Cornwall Royals) all won the Memorial Cup and were selected first overall in the NHL Entry Draft in the same season.
Dick Carroll was the first coach of a Memorial Cup winner (1920 Toronto Canoe Club Paddlers) and a Stanley Cup winner (1918 Toronto Arenas).
Danny Lewicki won the Memorial Cup (1947–48 Port Arthur West End Bruins), Allan Cup (1949–50 Toronto Marlboros) and Stanley Cup (1950–51 Toronto Maple Leafs) while still junior eligible.
The past two WHL teams to host the tournament — the Vancouver Giants and Kelowna Rockets — both won the Memorial Cup despite not winning the league title, having lost to theMedicineHat Tigers on both occasions in 2004 and 2007.
Gilbert Perreault and Rick Martin won successive Memorial Cup titles with the Montreal Jr. Canadiens (1968–69, 1969–70). With the Buffalo Sabres, Perreault (38 in 1970–71) and Martin (44 in 1971–72) both broke the NHL record for rookie goal scoring.
Pittsburgh Penguins coach Michel Therrien ended Quebec’s 15-year Memorial Cup drought, guiding the Granby Predateurs to victory in 1996.
Memorial Cupwinners John Gofton (1962 Hamilton Red Wings) and Bruce Boudreau (1973, 1975 Toronto Marlboros) appeared in the film Slap Shot.
Ron Anderson, a Memorial Cup winner with the Edmonton Oil Kings (1963, 1966), scored the first goal in WHA history for the Alberta Oilers on Oct. 11, 1972.
Patrick Roy backstopped the Montreal Canadiens to the 1986 Stanley Cup, the Colorado Avalanche to the 1996 Stanley Cup and coached the Quebec Remparts to the 2006 Memorial Cup.
Lionel Conacher of the 1920 Memorial Cup–champion Toronto Canoe Club Paddlers was named Canada’s athlete of the half century in 1950.
Darcy Tucker, Ryan Huska and Tyson Nash were teammates with the 1992, 1994 and 1995 Memorial Cup–champion Kamloops Blazers.
Coach and GM of the 1958 Memorial Cup–champion Ottawa-Hull Canadiens, Scotty Bowman and Sam Pollock were also coach and GM of three Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup winners (1976 to 1978).
Gerry Cheevers played goal and left wing for the 1961 Memorial Cup–champion Toronto St. Michael’s Majors.
Coach of Canada’s 2009 World Junior championship squad, Pat Quinn played defence for the 1963 Memorial Cup–winning Edmonton Oil Kings.
Guy Charron, who scored the Memorial Cup–winning goal for the 1969 Montreal Jr. Canadiens, played an NHL-record 734 regular-season games without appearing in a single Stanley Cup playoff game.
Bryan Maxwell coached both the 1987 Medicine Hat Tigers and the 1991 Spokane Chiefs to Memorial Cup titles.
Bobby Hull Jr. (1980 Cornwall Royals) and Mark and Marty Howe (1973 Toronto Marlboros) won Memorial Cups. Their famous fathers — Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe — didn’t.
Teammates on the 1952 Memorial Cup–champion Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters, Dean Prentice and Harry Howell played more than two decades in the NHL without winning a Stanley Cup.
Harry Neil was the first to play for (1921 Winnipeg Falcons) and coach (1935 Winnipeg Monarchs) a Memorial Cup winner.
Marc Crawford won successive Memorial Cup titles with the Cornwall Royals (1980, 1981). His brother Lou Crawford won the 1982 Memorial Cup with the Kitchener Rangers.
Windsor Spitfires defenceman Darryl Shannon and left winger Darrin Shannon were brothers named to a Memorial Cup all-star team (1988).
Al Ritchie coached the Regina Pats to Memorial Cup titles (1925, 1930) and the Regina Roughriders in four straight Grey Cup games from 1929 to 1932.
Brandon Reid received the George Parsons Trophy as the Memorial Cup’s most sportsmanlike player in consecutive seasons with different teams — Halifax Mooseheads (2000) and Val d’Or Foreurs (2001).
Paul Emms coached the Niagara Falls Flyers to the 1968 Memorial Cup title. His father Leighton (Hap) Emms was GM.
In a f ive-year span, Johnny McCreedy won the Memorial Cup (1937 Winnipeg Monarchs), the Allan Cup with Trail (1938) and Kirkland Lake (1940), a world championship with Canada (1939) and the Stanley Cup with the Toronto Maple Leafs (1942).
Orval Tessier coached the Cornwall Royals to the 1972 Memorial Cup, 19 years after playing for the Memorial Cup–champion Barrie Flyers.
Gus Mortson (1944 Oshawa Generals, 1945 Toronto St. Michael’s Majors) was the first to win consecutive Memorial Cup titles with different teams.
Mark Fitzpatrick (1987, 1988 Medicine Hat Tigers) won consecutive Leighton (Hap) Emms Memorial Trophies as the
Memorial Cup’s outstanding goaltender.
Ralph Backstrom (1958 Hull-Ottawa Canadiens, 1959 Montreal Canadiens), Chico Maki (1960 St. Catharines Teepees, 1961 Chicago Blackhawks) and Les Costello (1947 Toronto St. Michael’s Majors, 1948 Toronto Maple Leafs) won the Memorial Cup and Stanley Cup in consecutive seasons.
Paul Henderson, scorer of the deciding goal in the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Series, won the Memorial Cup (1962 Hamilton Red Wings).
Garnet (Ace) Bailey of the 1966 Memorial Cup–champion Edmonton Oil Kings, died on one of the planes that was crashed into the World Trade Center by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.
Montreal Canadiens defencemen Francis Bouillon (1996 Granby Predateurs) and Josh Gorges (2004 Kelowna Rockets) captained Memorial Cup winners.
Al MacNeil (1955, 1956 Toronto Marlboros) is the only captain of consecutive Memorial Cup championship squads. Harold (Mush) March, a Memorial Cup winner with the 1928 Regina Monarchs, scored the first goal at Maple Leaf Gardens.
Bob Kilger, who coached the Cornwall Royals to the 1981 Memorial Cup, served as an NHL referee and a Canadian
member of Parliament and is currently mayor of Cornwall.
Granby Predateurs goalie Frederic Deschenes is the only goalie to post two shutouts in the same Memorial Cup tournament (1996).
Dunc Munro was the first to win the Memorial (1919 University of Toronto Schools) and Stanley (1926 Montreal Maroons) Cup.
Barry Beck and Brad Maxwell (1977 Memorial Cup–champion New Westminster Bruins) were all-tournament defencemen, an honour both Beck (1976) and Maxwell (1975) had received in previous tournaments.
Robert Savard (1980, 1981 Cornwall Royals, 1982 Kitchener Rangers) won the Memorial Cup with teams from two of the CHL’s three leagues.
Atlanta Thrashers coach John Anderson scored a Memorial Cup–winning goal (1975 Toronto Marlboros).
Minnesota Twins first baseman Justin Morneau was the third goaltender with the 1998 Memorial Cup–champion Portland Winter Hawks.
Charlie Conacher, Red Horner and Busher Jackson played for the first Toronto Marlboros team to win the Memorial
Cup (1929) and the first Toronto Maple Leafs team to win the Stanley Cup (1932).
John Kordic won the Memorial Cup with the 1983 Portland Winter Hawks. His brother Dan Kordic won the Memorial Cup with the 1988 Medicine Hat Tigers.
Dickie Moore won consecutive Memorial Cup titles with the 1949 Montreal Royals and the 1950 Montreal Jr. Canadiens.
Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Primeau is the only man to coach Memorial (1945 and 1947 Toronto St. Michael’s Majors), Allan (1949–50 Toronto Marlboros) and Stanley (1950–51 Toronto Maple Leafs) Cup winners.
Billy Reay coached the 1950 Memorial Cup–champion Montreal Jr. Canadiens and scored the Memorial Cup–winning goal for the 1938 St. Boniface Seals.
Founder of Canada’s national team program, Father David Bauer played for (1944) and coached (1961) Memorial Cup–winning Toronto St. Michael’s Majors teams.
Alf Pike captained the 1937 Memorial Cup–winning Winnipeg Monarchs and coached the 1952 Memorial Cup–champion Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters.
Boston Bruins coach Claude Julien guided the Hull Olympiques to the 1997 Memorial Cup.
Gary Roberts won Memorial Cup titles with the 1984 Ottawa 67s and the 1986 Guelph Platers.
NewJersey Devils coach Brent Sutter, coach and GMof the 2001 Red Deer Rebels, is the only Sutter to win the Memorial Cup.
Alexander Radulov (2006 Quebec Remparts), Brad Richards (2000 Rimouski Oceanic) and Dale Hawerchuk (1981
Cornwall Royals) are QMJHL players who won the Memorial Cup and CHL player-of-the-year honours in the same season.
Gerry James won the Memorial Cup (1955 Toronto Marlboros) and the Grey Cup four times (1958, 1959, 1961, 1962 Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
Paul Thompson was a Memorial Cup champion (1926 Calgary Canadians) and played for the 1928 New York Rangers, the first American-based NHL club to win the Stanley Cup.
Don Marshall won the Memorial Cup (1950 Montreal Jr. Canadiens) and a record five straight Stanley Cup titles with the Montreal Canadiens (1956–60).
Billy Burch and Roy Worters of the 1920 Memorial Cup–champion Toronto Canoe Club Paddlers won Hart Trophies as NHL MVP.
Alfie Moore was the first goalie to win the Memorial (1929 Toronto Marlboros) and Stanley (1938 Chicago
Blackhawks) Cup.
Bob Duff is a sports reporter for the Windsor Star.