The 2013-14 Guelph Storm didn’t lose many hockey games this year, but they did lose The Big One.
In the Championship Final for the Memorial Cup at London, the Storm were upset 6-3 by the Edmonton Oil Kings in a result that surprised a large number of people and virtually everyone in Guelph.
No matter what you believe, the greatest truth in all of this is that in a one game championship, the potential exists that almost anything can happen.
The OHL Champion Storm were among the deepest & most balanced teams to win the Ontario Hockey League titles.
They had NHL draft picks in all 3 defensive pairings, they had NHL draft picks on every line, 1 through 4, and they were powered, in my view, by the remarkable emergence of second year centre Robby Fabbri whose NHL Draft status had to have rocketed.
Having said that, anybody can lose sometime.
Guelph only lost 16 times in the regular season, but curiously, 3 of those defeats were to the Owen Sound Attack.
Guelph went 16 & 4 in the OHL playoffs, yet in every series, they lost. Once to Plymouth, once to London, once to Erie & once to North Bay.
And at the Memorial Cup, Guelph was the class of the tournament going 3 & 0 in the round robin.
However, in the one shot title game, the Storm were defeated by Edmonton, in the end losing the game that mattered the most
I’m Fred Wallace