The definitive history of one of the most prestigious trophies in all of sports and everything it represents! Great work!

@hockeydocs

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark!

This is beautiful.. I'm so sorry I just found this now.. Thank you for uploading this!

@lot48films

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

The BIG championship of the Canadian Hockey League, a consortium of three major junior ice hockey leagues operating in Canada and parts of the USA. It is a four-team round-robin tournament played among the champions of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) and Western Hockey League (WHL), and a fourth, hosting team, which alternates between the three leagues annually! Ages allowed are between 15-20 years of age. That is only a 5 year "at very top" possible amount of time to not only win a major junior league title, but even less to qualify for the Memorial Cup (!) jikes..... Still knowing that, I never put enough time to weight the Memorial Cup's chanses to win compared to ALL the professional major championships presented here: # NHL Stanley Cup = Yearly. 32 teams ./. 16 Teams = 8 best teams from East vs. 8 best teams from West qualifies to the play-offs to compete. NOTE: NHL is universally recognised as the biggest and greatest hockey league in the world, where all young tallents world-wide aspire to play there on a team. # Olympic gold = Evrey four year the Olympic games happens ./. 14 Nation Teams = Top six IIHF places are given direct entry to the first round, places 7th and 8th were given direct entry to the preliminary round, and all other participant nations were seeded in IIHF qualifying tournaments to fill the remaining six positions. The 8 best nations qualifies during the tournament for the quarter-finals, 4 best for semi-finals and 2 best fight for the gold & silver while 3rd and 4th fight for the bronze medal. NOTE: Each nation brings the best players they have possible avaible to represent them and nations like Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Finland & Czech Rep are traditional favourites for the medals due to there richer hockey cultures and amount of top level players. # IIHF World Championship gold medal = Yearly. 16 Nation Teams = Top eight IIHF places are given direct entry to the first round, places 9th and 10th were given direct entry to the preliminary round, and all other participant nations were seeded in IIHF qualifying tournaments to fill the remaining positions. The 8 best nations qualifies during the tournament for the quarter-finals, 4 best for semi-finals and 2 best fight for the gold & silver while 3rd and 4th fight for the bronze medal. NOTE: Each nation brings the best players they have possible avaible to represent them and nations like Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Finland & Czech Rep are traditional favourites for the medals due to there richer hockey cultures and amount of top level players. # KHL Gagarin Cup = Yearly. 23 teams ./. 16 Teams = 8 best teams from East vs. 8 best teams from West qualifies to the play-offs to compete. NOTE: KHL is recognised as the 2nd biggest and greatest hockey league in the world, where a lot of young tallents world-wide aspire to play there on a team, if they do not make it to a team in the NHL. A lot of great Russian tallents that could potentially be in the NHL remains in the KHL. # AHL Calder Cup = Yearly. 32 teams ./. 16 Teams = 8 best teams from East vs. 8 best teams from West qualifies to the play-offs to compete. NOTE: AHL is recognised as a professional league that is affiliated with the NHL. Near all AHL teams have a connection with an NHL team where players are regularly sent up- and down in-between, but that is not a rule for all players as majority of players are career AHL players who are good playing hockey but not to make it to the NHL and/or do not aspire to play abroad in European professional leagues ex: Germany, Swiz, Sweden, Finland, Italy etc. OTHER TOP HOCKEY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS: # IIHF Champions Hockey League (CHL) Championship Tournament / Europes best league champions competes for the European Continent Championship. # Alps Hockey League (AlpsHL) / A professional ice hockey league based in Central Europe. The league is made up of teams from Austria, Italy and Slovenia. # Germany = DEL (Deutsche Eishockey Liga) - German Cup # Switzerland = NL (National League) - Swiss Champion # Sweden = SHL (Swedish Hockey League) - Swedish Gold Championship (SM-Guld) # Finland = Liiga (Finnish Elite League) - Finnish championship (Suomen mestaruus) # Italy = Lihg (Italian Hockey League - Serie A) - Serie A Champions # Czech Republic = Czech Extraliga (ELH) - T. G. Masaryk Cup

Great memories but I don't watch the Memorial Cup anymore. Not when the team for the host city can get knocked out in first round, sit on their butts for six weeks, and win the trophy. And the site selection is based on revenue and whatever city Master Card approves of.

@hockeydocs

10 ай бұрын

You have the right to miss out if you so decide. Mastercard is no longer the title sponsor though.

Where is the coverage of the BEST team to win the Mem Cup: the New Westminster Bruins? Beck, Smyl, Ogrodnick…

@hockeydocs

Жыл бұрын

They are in there a bit. I'm not sure I'd agree about them being the best, but they were pretty great.

@stinkfinger630

Жыл бұрын

@@hockeydocs sure, we can debate whether the Bruins were the best, but you seem to go from the Pats of ‘74 to the ‘80/‘81 Royals.

@hockeydocs

Жыл бұрын

@stinkfinger630 that is pretty true. There is a bit about the Oil Kings in the segment on "repeat champions" around the 42 minute mark. The CHL gave us the teams they wanted featured in this and we had to leave some great teams out because of the filming schedule and length of the project. Maybe we'll get the chance to do more teams at some point.

@stinkfinger630

Жыл бұрын

@@hockeydocs I guess the repeat Champion Bruins are near and dear to me, having grown up watching them play in the old Queens Park Arena. I still run in to coach Ernie ‘Punch’ McLean at Canuck home games. Those Bruin teams were so tough, scary tough: more or less modeled on the mid-70’s era tough teams of the Flyers. Some crazy battles against the Portland Winterhawks and Victoria Cougars! They deserved coverage in any Memorial Cup retrospective.

@hockeydocs

Жыл бұрын

@stinkfinger630 Mark Napier had a great story about how intimidated the Marlies were playing them. They had only two pucks in warm up, they lost one in the Bruins end and no one would go down to get it. Sounds like you've got some great memories!