2025 Memorial Cup Emblem Unveiled as Rimouski Introduced as Host – SportsLogos.Web Information

The most important showcase of Canadian junior hockey is heading again to Quebec for the primary time in a decade in 2025, and it’ll have a emblem to match the event.

The Canadian Hockey League introduced on Monday, December 11, that the 2025 Memorial Cup match could be held in Rimouski, Quebec, about 270 kilometers northeast of Quebec Metropolis and residential of the Quebec Main Junior Hockey League’s Rimouski Oceanic.

Together with the announcement got here the revealing of the match emblem. It follows the emblem template the CHL has used sine 2018-19, with the Memorial Cup trophy atop a purple ribbon studying “COUPE MEMORIAL CUP.” A purple poppy sits with the trophy base, together with the host metropolis and yr.

The defend at the back of the emblem mimics the shields affixed to the trophy annually with the profitable crew’s title engraved on it. The underside of the defend additionally affords area for the emblem of a title sponsor; from 2018 to 2023, that was automotive producer Kia, whereas in 2024, will probably be chemical firm Dow.

The Memorial Cup sees the champions of the Western Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey League and the Quebec Main Junior Hockey League, together with the crew representing the host metropolis, collect to compete in a single round-robin. The primary-place crew within the spherical robin will get a bye into the ultimate, and can face the winner of the semifinal between the second- and third-place groups.

The final time the match was held in Quebec was 2015, when it was hosted by the Quebec Remparts. A QMJHL crew has hosted since then, but it surely was the New Brunswick-based Saint John Sea Canines in 2022. The 2025 match would be the second time Rimouski has hosted it, with the primary being in 2009.

The 2024 Memorial Cup can be hosted by the OHL’s Saginaw Spirit in Saginaw, Michigan — the primary it’s been held in that state. Different American cities which have hosted the Memorial Cup embrace Portland, Oregon (1983, 1986); Seattle, Washington (1992); and Spokane, Washington (1998).