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Champions: 1990 Oshawa Generals

Four teams gathered in Hamilton to decide the 1990 Memorial Cup in the Copps Coliseum. However, the OHL’s Dukes of Hamilton, who were to have been the host team, weren’t among them. The Dukes had won only 11 games, so the OHL sent along its champion, the Oshawa Generals, and runner-up, the Kitchener Rangers, to compete with the Kamloops Blazers and Laval Titan. But the talk of this tournament was Oshawa forward Eric Lindros. With four games to be televised by TSN, the nation was about to get a look at Lindros. Lindros, 17, didn’t disappoint; neither did the tournament. Four of the eight games went into overtime, two to double overtime. Lindros had played only 25 regular-season games — he had been acquired from Sault Ste. Marie after refusing to report to the Greyhounds — and had 17 goals and 19 assists. In 17 playoff games, he had 18 goals and 18 assists. In the end, the Generals gave Oshawa its first Memorial Cup since 1944, beating Kitchener, 4-3, on May 13 when Bill Armstrong scored at 2:05 of the second OT. “I think every guy in this dressing room had dreamt about scoring the winning goal in the Memorial Cup final,” Armstrong said. “Sure I had dreamt about it. But, realistically, I never thought it would be me who scored.” Armstrong, a 6-foot-5 defenceman, had scored just two regular-season goals. Lindros didn’t score in the tournament, but he did earn nine assists. Oshawa head coach Rick Cornacchia admitted that he was most nervous in the first overtime period. “All I could think about,” he said, “was that we were defending the goal at which every overtime goal in the tournament had been scored. I was worried.” When the tournament began, the high-powered Blazers were the favourites, but they lost their first two games, both in OT, 8-7 to Kitchener and 7-6 to Oshawa. On May 9, Laval beat Kamloops, 4-2. The Blazers, the CHL’s top-ranked team a few days earlier, were 0-3 and the first team eliminated. Oshawa, meanwhile, had beaten Laval, 6-2, and then grabbed a spot in the final when Dale Craigwell’s goal at 4:16 of double OT gave it a 5-4 victory over Kitchener on May 10. Kitchener, which had beaten Laval, 5-3, in the round-robin, moved into the final with another victory over the Titan, this time 5-4, on May 12. The championship game drew 17,383 fans, the largest crowd to watch a Memorial Cup game. The previous record (13,460) came from May 14, 1977 for the championship game — New Westminster Bruins 6, Ottawa 67’s 5 — in Vancouver’s Pacific Coliseum. The 1990 tournament totalled 70,563 spectators, second only to the 1989 event in Saskatoon that drew 77,256 fans. The Saskatoon tournament featured nine games (average: 8,588) to Hamilton’s eight (8,820). 1990 Oshawa Generals: Bill Armstrong, Cory Banika, Fred Brathwaite, Joe Busillo, Kevin Butt, Clair Cornish, David Craievich, Mike Craig, Dale Craigwell, Jean-Paul Davis, Mark Deazeley, Craig Donaldson, lain Fraser, Brent Grieve, Brian Grieve, Matt Hoffman, Scott Hollis, Eric Lindros, Scott Luik, Trevor McIvor, Paul O’Hagan, Wade Simpson, Jarrod Skalde, Frank Jay (director of hockey operations), Rick Cornacchia (coach).