Port Hope’s Owen Beck and host team Saginaw Spirit won the Memorial Cup and Beck was also named the national major junior hockey tournament’s most valuable player.
Beck is a prospect of the Montreal Canadiens, which selected him in the second round, No. 33 overall, at the 2022 NHL Entry Draft. He competed two straight years for Canada at the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships, winning gold in 2023.
Beck scored twice for the Spirit in a 4-3 victory over their Ontario Hockey League rival London Knights in the championship game Sunday, June 2.
The 20-year-old played for the OHL champion Peterborough Petes at the 2023 Memorial Cup in Kamloops, B.C. after being traded from Mississauga Steelheads. He was dealt to a contending team at the trade deadline for the second straight year this season.
