The 1957 Memorial Cup final was the 39th junior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The George Richardson Memorial Trophy champions Ottawa Junior Canadiens an independent team in Eastern Canada competed against the Abbott Cup champions Flin Flon Bombers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in Western Canada. In a best-of-seven series, held at the Whitney Forum in Flin Flon, Manitoba and at Regina Exhibition Stadium in Regina, Saskatchewan, Flin Flon won their 1st Memorial Cup, defeating Ottawa 4 games to 3.
The Canadiens arrived in Flin Flon, too late to make the first game of their championship series against the local Bombers team. To many in the small northern city, it was proof enough that the easterners didn't take them seriously, or consider them capable of hosting the major tournament. The series went back and forth and moved to Regina, where in the fifth game Ottawa coach Sam Pollock was ejected for having "questioned the ancestry of the referees," as the Regina Leader-Post worded it. Flin Flon won in the seventh, deciding game, and upon returning home, the team was met at the train station by an estimated 4,000 cheering Flin Flon fans.[1]
Scores
- Game 1: Flin Flon 3-1 Ottawa (in Flin Flon)
- Game 2: Ottawa 4-3 Flin Flon (in Flin Flon)
- Game 3: Ottawa 5-2 Flin Flon (in Flin Flon)
- Game 4: Flin Flon 3-1 Ottawa (in Regina)
- Game 5: Flin Flon 3-2 Ottawa (in Regina)
- Game 6: Ottawa 4-2 Flin Flon (in Regina)
- Game 7: Flin Flon 3-2 Ottawa (in Regina)
Winning roster
Barry Beatty, Jean Gauthier, Patty Ginnell, Harvey Fleming, Carl Forster, Ted Hampson, Ron Hutchinson, Mike Kardash, George Konik, Orland Kurtenbach, Rod Lee, Cliff Lennartz, Mel Pearson, Duane Rupp, Ken Wiley, George Wood. Coach: Bobby Kirk[3]