The Mercurys did it
the last time in 1927: won the Memorial Cup for an Owen Sound team.
Now, 90 years later, the Attack
is on.
The Owen Sound Attack, that is.
This year marks a special moment
as a hockey-loving Owen Sounder. The Attack, the junior club that has
distinguished itself in competition in recent years is seen as being a genuine
contender for the Memorial Cup, the trophy signifying supremacy in Canadian junior
hockey.
The Attack is down 2-1 against the Soo Greyhounds, a team known for graduating a gangly kid from Brantford, Ontario, to the
WHA, and then the NHL, back in the spring of 1978. (Yeah, Wayne Gretzky). But
its next game is on Tuesday night in Owen Sound.
I’m counting on the Attack
coming back strong on Tuesday, a day before the Stanley Cup playoffs open.
Most years at this time my focus
is on my favorite team, the Pittsburgh Penguins. And the Canadian clubs: this
year a good crop: Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and TORONTO !!
But, for now, that’ll have to take a back
seat to the Attack.
I mean when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in
1994, they ended a 54-year drought. When it comes to major junior
clubs, it has been ninety years for Owen Sound.
Time to put another team in
orbit. Go, Attack, Go !!
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