OHL Saginaw Spirit

Saginaw Advances in 08 Memorial Cup Bid

Published on March 6, 2007 under Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Saginaw Spirit News Release


The Saginaw Spirit hockey club has been approved to make a formal bid presentation to host the 2008 MasterCard Memorial Cup. The Spirit will join the Kitchener Rangers, London Knights, Oshawa Generals and Sarnia Sting in making a formal bid presentation to the Memorial Cup Site Selection Committee on April 18, 2007. The Announcement of the host site for the 2008 Memorial Cup will be made the Week of May 7, 2007.

"We're honored to be selected along side the elite company of the four other teams chosen for this honor", stated Spirit Managing Partner Craig Goslin, "We look forward to continuing the bid process on behalf of a community that has become endeared with CHL hockey. I am confident that if we are selected to host the Memorial Cup, the league will be pleased with the presentation and treatment of the visiting teams and their families."

Original release courtesy of the Ontario Hockey League:

Toronto-The Ontario Hockey League today announced that five OHL teams have been approved to make formal bid presentations to host the 2008 MasterCard Memorial Cup.

It is the opinion of the Memorial Cup site selection committee that five out of the six teams that applied to host the 2008 MasterCard Memorial Cup, have satisfactorily met all of the necessary criteria in order to be provided with an opportunity to make a formal bid presentation. The teams that will be presenting to the Memorial Cup site selection committee are the Kitchener Rangers, London Knights, Oshawa Generals, Saginaw Spirit and Sarnia Sting.

The host site selection committee is comprised of Paul Beeston, former CEO of major League Baseball, Frank Bonello, former Director of Central Scouting for the National Hockey League, Brian O'Neill, Consultant for the National Hockey League and Jim Gregory, Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations for the National Hockey League.

For Beeston, Bonello, and O'Neil this will mark the fifth time that they have been members of the site selection committee for the Memorial Cup, previously selecting Peterborough (1996), Ottawa (1999), Guelph (2002) and London (2005).

The successful host centre will be announced during the week of May 7, 2007 and its delegates will travel to Vancouver, BC for a site visit during the upcoming 2007 MasterCard Memorial Cup.

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