The first of the four teams at the Memorial Cup to be eliminated is the host Rimouski Oceanic, who couldn't beat the resurgent Windsor Spitfires in the tiebreaker game tonight, losing 6-4. So Rimouski is out, while Windsor plays Drummondville tomorrow night in the semifinal, with the winner tangling with Kelowna for all the marbles on Sunday. At least we know there will be no "back door" Memorial Cup champion this year....the three teams remaining are all the champions of their respective leagues.
This loss has to really sting for the Oceanic, who really deserved to have won last night's game with Drummondville and the free pass to the semifinal that came with it. They couldn't get it done though and then tonight they just got beat by a better team. Windsor carried the play tonight and definitely deserved this win in my books.
I don't think Rimouski would have tied the game anyway, but that penalty called against them with 95 seconds left was one of the worst calls of the year at any level. Referee Marc Muylaert should be embarrassed to have taken the game out of the hands of the Oceanic players with a call like that, at that point of that game.
This was definitely Windsor's best game of the tournament in my opinion. It's going to get interesting now if the Spitfires pull out the semifinal win over Drummondville. That would get them another match-up against the Rockets, who could have sent the Spits home on Tuesday night but mailed the Spitfires' season-saving win in instead.....
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