TELUS CUP READY TO GO
MOOSE JAW, Sask. – For the 41st time, Canada’s top Midget teams have gathered, this year in Moose Jaw, to do battle for Canada’s National Midget Championship, beginning Monday, April 21. The 2014 tournament marks just the third time Saskatchewan has played host since the inaugural Wrigley Cup in Oshawa, Ont., in 1974.
The host Moose Jaw Generals are joined by five regional champions: the Grenadiers de Châteauguay (Quebec), Halifax McDonald’s (Atlantic), Okanagan Rockets (Pacific), Prince Albert Mintos (West) and Toronto Young Nationals (Central). The six competing teams will take to the ice at Mosaic Place hoping to earn one of the two berths in Sunday’s nationally-televised gold medal game.
This year’s field includes one team that has previously won Canada’s National Midget Championship; the Mintos won back-to-back national titles in 2006 and 2007, and currently have the second-longest winning streak in tournament history at 14 games. While Moose Jaw and Okanagan are making their first TELUS Cup appearances, the other four teams all have national championship experience – Halifax is making its fifth appearance, Prince Albert is in for the fourth time, and Châteauguay and Toronto are each making trip No. 2.
The gold medal game will be held Sunday, April 27 at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT and will be shown on TSN/RDS, Hockey Canada’s official broadcasters (check your local listings). All preliminary round games, semifinals and the bronze medal game can be seen live via FASTHockey webcast through the game summary page at www.hockeycanada.ca/teluscup.
