It was ten years ago today your Halifax Mooseheads won their first Memorial Cup!
(Above: Co-Captain Trey Lewis and goalie Zach Fucale celebrate the Mooseheads Memorial Cup Victory.)
The Herd beat the Portland Winterhawks 6-4 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with Cole Harbour’s Nathan MacKinnon scoring a hat-trick.
Nate also won tournament MVP.
We were watching it at home and my oldest son Drake thought I was going to take “the big one” as the seconds counted down in the 3rd period. Yes, there were a couple of happy tears.
(Above: Ian and the Memorial Cup & the President Cup in background.)
It was a special time for Halifax to be the home of the City of Champions as the Mooseheads also won the QMJHL President Cup that year too with the parade that later followed on May 28th that ended at Grand Parade with a few thousand Moosemaniacs there to celebrate with the Moose.
(Images above from the Mooseheads Parade Fay May 28, 2013.)
Halifax hosted the Memorial Cup four years ago this week in 2019 when several alumni were in town to celebrate like Nate, Jonathan Drouin, Alex Tanguay, Jody Shelly and more.
(Above: Nathan MacKinnon does the Alumni Ceremonial Puck Drop May, 2019.)
Tonight, the 2023 Memorial Cup begins in Kamloops, British Columbia with the host Kamloops Blazers facing the QMJHL Champions Patrick Roy and the Quebec Remparts who the Mooseheads took to 6 games in the Q League Finals last Sunday.
Good luck to the Remparts representing the QMJHL.
-Ian
Credits: @HFXMooseheads & @QMJHL
