{"id":873,"date":"2009-05-24T19:01:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T23:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2009-05-24T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T23:03:53","slug":"windsor-spitfires-memorial-cup-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2009\/05\/24\/windsor-spitfires-memorial-cup-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Windsor Spitfires:  Memorial Cup Champions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"trophy_memorialcuplg by warwalker_2000, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/warwalker\/3561161244\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Memorial Cup\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3577\/3561161244_0ae2601c33_o.jpg\" alt=\"trophy_memorialcuplg\" width=\"223\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Goblet Will be taking a trip down the 401 to the Rose City<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations to the Windsor Spitfires &#8211; and the City of Windsor &#8211; on the Spits&#8217; first Memorial Cup victory.  Windsor becomes the first team ever to win the Cup after going down 0-2 in the round robin portion of the tournament.  They had to beat Kelowna in their final game of the round robin to force a tiebreaker, beat Rimouski in the tiebreaker and then Drummondville in the semi-final just to make it to today&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Once they were there, they seemed desperately hungry to claim the trophy;\u00a0 three quick goals in the first seven minutes and eleven seconds pretty much sealed the Rockets&#8217; fate, as the <a title=\"Windsor Spitfires are the CHL Memorial Cup Champions!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leaguestat.com\/chl\/memcup\/en\/stats\/game-summary.php?game_id=81\" target=\"_blank\">Spits beat Kelowna 4 &#8211; 1<\/a> to claim the 2009 Memorial Cup Championship.  Give Kelowna credit, they gave it a whirl to come back, scoring a goal eight seconds in to the second period &#8211; but Ryan Ellis&#8217; bomb from the point in the dying portions of that period restored a three goal lead and made Kelowna&#8217;s route to victory all the more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>I will have a more complete recap up later; for now, be proud of your team, Windsor &#8211; they showed skill, talent and heart in winning this Championship.  Enjoy it!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Leaf fans:\u00a0 the Memorial Cup winning goal &#8211; was scored by Dale Mitchell (2007 3rd round pick, 74th overall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Goblet Will be taking a trip down the 401 to the Rose City<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the Windsor Spitfires &#8211; and the City of Windsor &#8211; on the Spits&#8217; first Memorial Cup victory. Windsor becomes the first team ever to win the Cup after going down 0-2 in the round robin portion of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}