2009 Memorial Cup

2009 Mastercard Memorial Cup
Tournament details
Venue(s)Colisée de Rimouski
Rimouski, Quebec
DatesMay 15–24, 2009
Teams4
Host teamRimouski Océanic (QMJHL)
TV partner(s)
Final positions
ChampionsWindsor Spitfires (OHL) (1st title)
Tournament statistics
Games played9
Attendance41,440 (4,604 per game)
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Silver bowl trophy with two large handles, mounted on a wide black plinth engraved with team names on silver plates.
The Memorial Cup trophy

The 2009 Memorial Cup was a four-team round-robin format ice hockey tournament played during May 2009 in Rimouski, Quebec. It was the 91st annual Memorial Cup competition and determined the major junior ice hockey champion of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League announced on April 3, 2008, that the Rimouski Océanic were chosen to host the event at the Colisée de Rimouski.[1] Other participants include the Windsor Spitfires, champions of the Ontario Hockey League, the Drummondville Voltigeurs, champions of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, and the Kelowna Rockets, champions of the Western Hockey League.[2]

Five other QMJHL teams submitted a bid to host the event, including the Chicoutimi Saguenéens, Halifax Mooseheads, Lewiston Maineiacs, Shawinigan Cataractes, and the St. John's Fog Devils.[3] The Maineiacs bid partnered with the American Hockey League's Portland Pirates, with a plan to host the event in Portland's Cumberland County Civic Center.[4] The QMJHL announced a five-member independent selection committee to evaluate the bids, headed by former New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord.[5]

The tournament began on May 15, 2009 with Kelowna beating Rimouski 4–1. Windsor defeated Rimouski in the tiebreaker and Drummondville in the semifinal, becoming just the second team since the current Memorial Cup tournament format was adopted in 1983 to reach the final after losing its first two games. Windsor then captured the Memorial Cup, defeating Kelowna 4–1 on May 24, 2009, becoming the first team in Memorial Cup history to win the tournament after starting 0–2, and also the first to win coming out of the tiebreaker.

  1. ^ Jahnke, Karl (April 3, 2008). "Rimouski wins 2009 MasterCard Memorial Cup bid". QMJHL. Archived from the original on November 15, 2008. Retrieved April 3, 2008.
  2. ^ Hale, Jeff; Pargas, Mark (May 15, 2009). "The Junior Report: Windsor Draws Attention With Memorial Cup Set to Begin". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "QMHL news archives, November 1, 2007". Archived from the original on May 6, 2009. Retrieved November 3, 2007.
  4. ^ Lewiston Maineiacs news
  5. ^ "QMHL news archives, December 26, 2007". Archived from the original on May 6, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2007.