630 CHED Sports
5/13/2012
Photo taken by: iNews880's Reid Wilkins
The Edmonton Oil Kings built an early lead on Sunday and never relinquished it for a 4-1 victory over the Portland Winterhawks to win the Western Hockey League's Ed Chynoweth Cup. Edmonton now advances to the Memorial Cup for the first time in modern franchise history. Rhett Rachinski, Tyler Maxwell, Michael St. Croix and T.J. Foster had the goals for Edmonton, who advance to the Canadian junior hockey championship tournament, played May 18-27 in Shawinigan, Que. Oliver Gabriel scored Portland's only goal of the game, putting a small dent in the Oil Kings' 4-0 lead. The loss was just the second game of the series that was separated by more than one goal. There have now been ten finals in WHL history that have gone to Game 7 and the road team has never won. Rachinski opened up the scoring just 1:51 into the first period on a broken play. Jordan Peddle's shot deflected off a defender right onto Rachinski's stick, who had an open net for the backhand.(Canadian Press/tk)
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