Attended the 1974 Memorial Cup that was won by the Regina Pats. Of note there was no host team for the tournament at the time. It was round robin event featuring the Quebec Remparts, Regina Pats and the St. Catharines Black Hawks. SRO crowds for the whole tournament.
Attended an exhibition game between the WHL junior all star team that played the WHA allstar team who played the Russians in the 74 Summit series. The funny part was that the juniors came close to winning that game.
A high school friend of mine played in the 1976 Wrigley National Midget tournament that was held in the Corral. Being the host city they put together an allstar team of the best midget players in the city and called them the Calgary Spurs. They beat the Toronto Nationals in the final and won a trip to Czechoslovakia. One of the players, Pat Conacher went on to play in the NHL for 15 seasons and had a very brief 7 game say with the Calgary Flames in 1995-96.
Somewhere in a box is an autographed mini stick with all the players names on it.
A link to an archived news article on the tourney
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...pg=3444,103416