2010 Royal Bank Cup

2010 Royal Bank Cup
Tournament details
Venue(s)Credit Union Place in Dauphin, Manitoba
DatesMay 1, 2010 – May 9, 2010
Teams5
Final positions
Champions Vernon Vipers (6th title)
Runner-up Dauphin Kings
Tournament statistics
Games played13
Scoring leader(s)Kellen Jones (9 pts.) (Vernon)
MVPShane Luke (Dauphin)
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The 2010 Royal Bank Cup was the 40th Junior "A" 2010 ice hockey National Championship for the Canadian Junior Hockey League. The 2010 Royal Bank Cup marked the 40th consecutive year a national championship has been awarded to this skill level since the breakaway of Major Junior hockey in 1970.

The Royal Bank Cup was competed for by the winners of the Doyle Cup, Anavet Cup, Dudley Hewitt Cup, the Fred Page Cup and the host city, the Dauphin Kings of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.

The tournament was hosted by the Dauphin Kings and ran from May 1 to May 9 of 2010 with games played at the Credit Union Place in Dauphin, Manitoba.[1] Charlie Major will be appearing as a special guest the night before the opening game.[2]

In the end, the defending 2009 Royal Bank Cup champion Vernon Vipers were too much for the hometown Dauphin Kings, crushing them 8-1 in the final.[3] In another lopsided results, during the round robin, the Brockville Braves crushed the Oakville Blades 11-2 to tie two different tournament records (goal by a winning team in one game, one game spread).[4]

  1. ^ "The Official Website of Hockey Canada".
  2. ^ "The Official Website of Hockey Canada".
  3. ^ "Vernon defeats Dauphin to capture RBC Cup championship". Archived from the original on 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
  4. ^ "Braves tie RBC Cup record with 11 goals in rout of Blades". Archived from the original on 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2017-12-06.