Edmonton Oil Kings
Memorial Cup Champions 2014
WHL / Western Hockey League Champions 2014
Ed Chynoweth Cup Champions 2014
Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy / Memorial Cup MVP - Edgars Kulda
Ed Chynoweth Trophy / Memorial Cup Tournament's Top Scorer - Henrik Samuelsson
George Parsons Trophy / Memorial Cup Most Sportsmanlike Player - Curtis Lazar

Team Roster
Henrik Samuelsson, Luke Bertolucci, Cole Benson, Brandon Baddock, Riley Kieser, Brandon Ralph, Reid Petryk, Mads Eller, Tyler Robertson, Edgars Kulda, Lane Bauer, Curtis Lazar, Mitchell Moroz, Mitchell Walter, Brett Pollock, Cody Corbett, Blake Orban, Ashton Sautner, Griffin Reinhart, Ben Carroll, Aaron Irving, Jesse Mills, Dysin Mayo, Tristan Jarry, Tyler Santos

Head Coach - Derek Laxdal
Associate Coach - Steve Hamilton
Assistant Coach - Sean Brown
General Manager - Randy Hansch

London, ON – The Edmonton Oil Kings captured the 2014 MasterCard Memorial Cup with a 6-3 win over the Guelph Storm earning their first Championship title in modern franchise history and third overall, with the team having won in 1963 and 1966 previously.

“So proud of these guys,” said Head Coach Derek Laxdal. “The effort they put into tonight to beat an unbelievable team in Guelph, it just shows you what we’ve gone through all year.

Edmonton brings a Memorial Cup back to the City of Champions for the first time since 1966 when the Oil Kings defeated the Oshawa Generals by a 4-2 score, and become the first WHL team to win since the 2008 Spokane Chiefs upended the Kitchener Rangers on home ice six years ago to the day.

“We never gave up,” said Oil Kings captain Griffin Reinhart. “I think that’s been a theme of ours this year, we’ve been down before and we just kept climbing back up.”

Henrik Samuelsson had a five-point performance notching two goals and three assists to take over the tournament scoring lead with eight points in five games. “We battled all year to get to this point,” said Samuelsson. “No better feeling than this, it’s amazing.”

The Storm opened the scoring in the Championship Final just one minute into the first period as Robby Fabbri intercepted a pass and the Storm came in on a three-on-one, and finished it off on a nice three way passing play with a tap into a wide open net.

The Oil Kings would tie the game at the 9:38 of the first period off of a 5 on 3 power play goal as Cody Corbett's blast from the top of the left circle on a nice back-and-forth passing play with Henrik Samulesson. Corbett wired the puck past Guelph goaltender Justin Nichols.

At the 16:36 mark of the first period, the Storm would regain their lead. Pius Suter would be denied on the breakaway, but Stephen Pierog pounced on a rebound to put the puck into the open net past an outstretched Tristan Jarry to put the Storm back in the lead.

Down 2-1 in the second period, the Oil Kings responded with three unanswered goals from Tyler Robertson, Edgars Kulda, and Mitch Moroz to lead 4-2 at the end of 40 minutes.

The Storm came flying out of the gates to start the third period with a Zack Mitchell goal at 3:23, but a goal from Samuelsson less than two minutes later would restore the two goal lead. Samuelsson sealed the victory with an empty net goal late at 18:34.

The Oil Kings outshot the Storm 45-35 with Jarry making 32 saves in the win, and Nichols taking the loss with 39 stops.

Kulda claimed MVP honours with seven points including a goal and two assists in the final earning the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy.

2014 MasterCard Memorial Cup All-Star Team:
Goalie - Antoine Bibeau (Val-d'Or Foreurs)
Defence - Cody Corbett (Edmonton Oil Kings)
Defence - Matt Finn (Guelph Storm)
Forward - Edgars Kulda (Edmonton Oil Kings)
Forward - Kerby Rychel (Guelph Storm)
Forward - Henrik Samuelsson (Edmonton Oil Kings)