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In the championship round, the Generals swept the Greyhounds in four games to clinch the OHL championship and earn a berth into the 1983 Memorial Cup. The Generals offense was led by Dave Gans , who scored 41 goals and a team high 105 points in 64 games after beginning the season with the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League .
The Vancouver Giants celebrate after winning the 2007 championship on home ice. The Memorial Cup tournament was expanded to four teams in 1983; a pre-determined host team was added in place of holding the tournament in a neutral host city. The first such host team was the Portland Winter Hawks, who set numerous firsts in the 1983 tournament.
The 1983 Memorial Cup tournament saw the inclusion of a fourth team, the team hosting the event, which was done to boost tournament attendance. The first tournament under this format was held in Portland, Oregon, and marked the first time that an American city hosted the Memorial Cup.
In 1982, the Winterhawks became the first American team to win the WHL championship and also the first to compete for the Memorial Cup. [7] In 1983, despite losing the WHL championship series, the Winterhawks participated in the Memorial Cup by virtue of hosting the tournament—the first American team to do so. [8]
The Kitchener Rangers represented the Ontario Hockey League as the host team at the 1984 Memorial Cup. The Rangers finished the 1983–84 season with a 52-16-2 record, earning 106 points and winning the Hamilton Spectator Trophy as the team with the best record during the regular season in the OHL.
In 1983, the Generals returned to the Memorial Cup after a 17-year absence, defeating the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds for their ninth J. Ross Robertson Cup. The Memorial Cup that year was played in Portland, Oregon. The Generals lost in the finals to the host team, the Portland Winter Hawks, by a score of 8–3.
The late Jim Valvano's 1983 team became known as the “Cardiac Pack” for a series of close victories culminating in a 54-52 win over Houston on Lorenzo Charles' dunk in t ... 10 members of NC ...
He was loaned to the Portland Winterhawks for the 1983 Memorial Cup and was named the top goaltender of the tournament in leading Portland to the championship. Selected by the Flames in the third round, 56th overall, in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft , Vernon began his professional career in 1982 and ended it 20 years later, also in Calgary.