With a WHL Championship already in hand, the Seattle Thunderbirds are off to chase the biggest prize in junior hockey in the Memorial Cup. FOX13
The four-team round-robin tournament set to begin on Saturday in Kamloops, British Columbia features the champions of the three Canadian Hockey Leagues with the host team Kamloops Blazers rounding out the field.
"It's an amazing tournament," defenseman Luke Prokop said. "You know, there's a lot of media buzz around it and a lot of fans come from all over the country. It's junior hockey and a spectacle and it's the best tournament and the best time of year to play." "I know he’s pumped," Prokop said of Guenther. "He was a huge part of our team last year, probably our best forward, most talented forward and for him to go out in the finals like that, you could just see in his face how badly he wanted to be out there. And at the tournament as well, too, you see him in the stands and he was kind of all doom and gloom. He wasn't playing, couldn't help the team out, especially since we weren't doing so well.
Seattle rolled through the WHL playoffs en route to the Ed Chynoweth Cup. It took just 19 games for the Thunderbirds to get the 16 total wins needed to win the title. They delivered back-to-back sweeps of the Kelowna Rockets and Prince George Cougars to reach the conference finals, where they met the Blazers. Kamloops managed to get a pair of victories against Seattle but fell in six games.
The Thunderbirds arguably bring the most talented team to Kamloops as well. Seattle has 10 players on their roster already drafted by NHL teams with five being first round selections in Guenther, and forwards Brad Lambert and Reid Schaefer, and defensemen Kevin Korchinski and Nolan Allan.
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