Memorial Cup blog

Memorial Cup breaking on the Tube

The Spokane Chiefs broke the Memorial Cup on national television and now it is on YouTube.

Go to TheRecord.com

Spokane Chiefs win, then break Memorial Cup

All week the cup handlers have been carefully carrying the cup wearing white gloves and keeping a firm hold on it. Sometimes for ceremony they pass it off to disciplined soldiers to transport the cup at events.

Then they give it to some sweaty hockey players after they win the tournament who, along with their butterfingers, drop it at the first opportunity. They're just lucky it isn't the real cup.

You can read about it in the live blog commentary on the final game.

2008 Memorial Cup final: Kitchener vs Spokane

2008 Memorial Cup championship game: Kitchener vs. Spokane at The Aud Sunday 25 May 4:40 p.m.

• Live blog: 2008 Memorial Cup final Kitchener vs. Spokane

Check back at TheRecord.com, the Memorial Cup special section, and the Memorial Cup blog for updates of all the games throughout the tournament.

• Live blog: Memorial Cup semifinal: Kitchener vs. Belleville
• Live blog: Kitchener vs. Belleville, Memorial Cup, Wed. May 21
• Live blog: Spokane vs. Gatineau Memorial Cup Tuesday
• Live blog: Belleville vs. Gatineau Memorial Cup Monday 7 p.m. 19 May 2008
• Live blog: Kitchener vs. Spokane Memorial Cup Sunday 18 May 2008
• Live blog: Memorial Cup Saturday — Belleville vs. Spokane 17 May 2008
• Live blog: Memorial Cup opening game: Kitchener vs. Gatineau 16 May 2008

Vote for who you think will win

Let us know which team you think will win the Memorial Cup final in our online poll.

Go to TheRecord.com and choose who you think the top major junior team in Canada will be, the Kitchener Rangers or the Spokane Chiefs.

Tough Cup call, but I'm leaning towards the locals

Who will win the Memorial Cup?

Obviously, a tough call. The tight-checking, sound all-around Spokane Chiefs bring an unbeaten 3-0 won-lost record into Sunday’s championship game.

The hometown Kitchener Rangers bring a 2-2 tournament mark, a passionate home crowd and whatever mental momentum they’ve derived from Friday night’s 9-0 romp over the Belleville Bulls into the contest.

This is where the Rangers dedicated themselves to being from day one of the season. It is their date with destiny.

Read more of: Tough Cup call, but I'm leaning towards the locals

2008 Memorial Cup videos and slide shows

You can see slide shows and highlights of Memorial Cup actions and events at the video page in our Memorial Cup section.

In addition to our live blogging of every game you can see some of the action in pictures and movies.

We link to the video highlights of each game, we offer series of photos of key moments in each contest, as well as other pieces like the Cup arriving in Kitchener and a tour of the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium.

— Ryan Chen-Wing

Memorial Cup semifinal: Kitchener vs. Belleville

Semifinals on Friday: Kitchener vs. Belleville at The Aud Friday 23 May.

• Live blog: Memorial Cup semifinal: Kitchener vs. Belleville
  

Check back at TheRecord.com, the Memorial Cup special section, and the Memorial Cup blog for updates of all the games throughout the tournament.

• Live blog: Kitchener vs. Belleville, Memorial Cup, Wed. May 21
• Live blog: Spokane vs. Gatineau Memorial Cup Tuesday
• Live blog: Belleville vs. Gatineau Memorial Cup Monday 7 p.m. 19 May 2008
• Live blog: Kitchener vs. Spokane Memorial Cup Sunday 18 May 2008
• Live blog: Memorial Cup Saturday — Belleville vs. Spokane 17 May 2008
• Live blog: Memorial Cup opening game: Kitchener vs. Gatineau 16 May 2008

Turn the pages of the Memorial Cup section

Our paper Memorial Cup special section is now up on the website.

Now you can click and turn the pages of PDFs of the physical newspaper insert.

It looks like this:

- Ryan Chen-Wing

Blogging in Kitchener for Spokane Spokesman-Review

Jessica Brown, who covers the Spokane Chiefs for the Spokane Spokesman Review, is here in Kitchener covering the tournament and she is blogging about the Chiefs' performance.

Welcome to Kitchener, Jessica.

The Spokesman-Review website has a subscription wall, but she posts her unedited stories to the site's sports blog.

We'll see what she has to say after Sunday's final. Hopefully the Spokane paper won't just have the opposite headline as Kitchener's or Belleville's.

— Ryan Chen-Wing

Scalpers: $200 for a $65 ticket tonight. Figuring on $300 for the final

Talked to a member of the underground economy tonight on the walk into the Aud.

He claimed he was asking and getting $200 for a $65 ticket.  And this Kitchener-Belleville round-robin finale  is supposed to be a "nothing" game.

All tickets for tonight's game are priced at $65.

For the final, when tickets will be priced at $90 per, said scalper figures he can wangle $300 each.

— Karlo Berkovich