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Port Arthur West End Bruins
1947-48 Memorial Cup champions
Team members
Fred Baccari
Barton Bradley
Alfie Childs
Dave Creighton
Pete Durham
Bobby Fero
Bert Fonso
Al Forslund
Art Harris
Bill Johnson
Danny Lewicki
Rudy Migay
Norv Olson
Benny Woit
Robbie Wrightsell
Jerry Zager
Lorne Chabot Jr.
Ed Lauzon (Coach)
E.C. Whalen (Manager)

The Port Arthur West End Bruins returned to the Memorial Cup final after an absence of 21 years as they last appeared in 1927 when they lost to the Owen Sound Greys in the Memorial Cup final.

The opponents for Port Arthur would be the Barrie Flyers who advanced by defeating the Montreal Nationales in the Eastern Canadian finals.

The best-of-seven series was played at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens with Port Arthur winning the first game in a shootout by a 10-8 score.

The Bruins once again demonstrated their offensive talents in the second game as they posted an 8-1 win to take a 2-0 series lead. The Flyers came closer in the third game losing 5-4 but Port Arthur swept the series by winning the fourth game 9-8 in overtime.

In the Bruins' line up was Rudy Migay who won his second Memorial Cup in as many years as he moved to the Bruins after being a member of the Toronto St. Michael's Majors' 1947 Memorial Cup winning team.


Dave Creighton

Also in Port Arthur's line up was Dave Creighton who would go on to play 12 years in the

National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks and New York Rangers.

Dave's son Adam would share a similar experience as in 1984 he was a member of the Ottawa 67's Memorial Cup winning team.