Series Thread: 2016 Memorial Cup thread

[puckhead]

We'll get a good chance to see the 2017 #1 pick, as the Wheaties won the WHL last night.

@kenwardskorner 16h16 hours ago
Not eligible until 2017 @NHL draft, @bdnwheatkings Nolan Patrick had 4th GWG of @TheWHL playoffs tonite. Led team & league w 30 playoff PTS.


so far we have:
Let another goal in for Nolan
allow a hattricK for Patrick







London, Rouyn-Noranda and Red Deer (host) are the other teams

 

[dash]

Does anybody outside of London like the Knights? I'm rooting for the Kings of Wheat.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Does anybody outside of London like the Knights? I'm rooting for the Kings of Wheat.

I do for the rest of this season.

After that, meh. Go Cornwall Corndogs.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Sens 7th rounder Francis Perron just won the Q Playoff MVP. Also won regular season MVP. Only other players in the last 20 years to do that were Crosby and Drouin. No pressure kid.

So I'll be pulling for the Huskies.

 

[dash]

London wallops Red Deer 6-2 to open up the Memorial Cup, Mitch Marner has a pretty good game.

Marner gets 5 points in huge Knights win at MasterCard Memorial Cup - Sportsnet.ca

 

[puckhead]

whoa. do not over look receiving the pass off of his inside blade

 

[Destroydacre]

Does anybody outside of London like the Knights? I'm rooting for the Kings of Wheat.

I imagine that the OHL is pretty sick of them. They were kind of a neat story when they had the stacked roster in 05 (thanks to the lockout) and won their first Memorial Cup as a team that had never done anything, but ever since then they are always good. I mean always. That's really hard to do in junior hockey, impressive in a way, but it does get kind of old. 4 Memorial Cup appearances in 5 years is insane. I wasn't a fan of them getting the 2014 Memorial Cup after getting the bid to host in 05 though. So I guess personally it really doesn't bother me since the only time I really ever see anything OHL related is the Memorial Cup, but it would be nice to see some fresh blood.

As an aside can the CHL finally get rid of the host team? The Memorial Cup has gotta be a big enough tournament now that it's not needed. A host hasn't won their league since Kitchener in 2008. The days of stacking your roster as host seem pretty much over. Let's ditch it and let league champions battle it out. Though I will say Brandon hardly looks like a champion so far. Ouch...

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

so far we have:
Let another goal in for Nolan
allow a hattricK for Patrick

Keep blowin' for Nolan
Stop rollin' for Nolan
Play like a geriatric for Patrick

 

[dash]

I imagine that the OHL is pretty sick of them. They were kind of a neat story when they had the stacked roster in 05 (thanks to the lockout) and won their first Memorial Cup as a team that had never done anything, but ever since then they are always good. I mean always. That's really hard to do in junior hockey, impressive in a way, but it does get kind of old. 4 Memorial Cup appearances in 5 years is insane. I wasn't a fan of them getting the 2014 Memorial Cup after getting the bid to host in 05 though. So I guess personally it really doesn't bother me since the only time I really ever see anything OHL related is the Memorial Cup, but it would be nice to see some fresh blood.

As an aside can the CHL finally get rid of the host team? The Memorial Cup has gotta be a big enough tournament now that it's not needed. A host hasn't won their league since Kitchener in 2008. The days of stacking your roster as host seem pretty much over. Let's ditch it and let league champions battle it out. Though I will say Brandon hardly looks like a champion so far. Ouch...

It it impressive, in fact so impressive that it makes me think that some shenanigans may be at play here. Portland in the WHL also had a pretty impressive run for a while as well until it was discovered that improper recruiting tactics and payments/gifts were made to players and their families. Hopefully, no such things are being done with the Knights program, but that program basically emerged out of nowhere and now is hailed as one of if not the pre-eminent junior hockey program in Canada.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

It it impressive, in fact so impressive that it makes me think that some shenanigans may be at play here. Portland in the WHL also had a pretty impressive run for a while as well until it was discovered that improper recruiting tactics and payments/gifts were made to players and their families. Hopefully, no such things are being done with the Knights program, but that program basically emerged out of nowhere and now is hailed as one of if not the pre-eminent junior hockey program in Canada.

I can tell you dash that plenty of people in Ontario hockey are convinced that the Knights are very "generous" with their players and potential recruits. Nothing concrete but they (and a couple of other OHL teams) are viewed with serious skepticism.

 

[puckhead]

13 points in 3 games for Mitch Marner.

 

[puckhead]

so much for that. Wheaties are out.

 

[dash]

so much for that. Wheaties are out.

I wonder what Jayce Hawryluk did to get scratched last night. He didn't have a good tourney, but you don't scratch your best offensive player in a do-or-die game without good reason.

 

[Destroydacre]

It it impressive, in fact so impressive that it makes me think that some shenanigans may be at play here. Portland in the WHL also had a pretty impressive run for a while as well until it was discovered that improper recruiting tactics and payments/gifts were made to players and their families. Hopefully, no such things are being done with the Knights program, but that program basically emerged out of nowhere and now is hailed as one of if not the pre-eminent junior hockey program in Canada.

I'd be lying if I said that thought hadn't crossed my mind. In particular the amount of American kids they manage to get that you'd expect to go the NCAA route is very surprising. But I'll give them the benefit of the doubt until I have reason to believe otherwise. The CHL came down hard on Portland and Windsor, I have to imagine they would with London too if any tomfoolery was discovered.

 

[Judge Fudge]

Keep blowin' for Nolan
Stop rollin' for Nolan
Play like a geriatric for Patrick

Honestly.......................

I like this the best

 

[puckhead]

final is set for tomorrow

 

[Destroydacre]

Gotta believe that London is gonna win today, but people didn't give Edmonton much of a chance against Guelph a couple years ago and the Oil Kings kicked the Storm's ass in the final so you never know. I'll watch for as long as the game is decent.

 

[dash]

On you Huskies!! Mush!

 

[puckhead]

Hell of a game.
1-1 going into the 3rd

 

[juliansteed]

Overtime now. What a game!