The 1975

Allan Cup The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men's ice hockey champions of Canada. It was donated by Sir Montagu Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal, and has been competed for since 1909. The current champions are the ...

was the Canadian

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championship for the 1974–75 season. The event was hosted by both

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and

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, Ontario. The 1975 playoff marked the 67th time that the

has been awarded. The

Thunder Bay Twins The Thunder Bay Twins were an Amateur Senior and Professional ice hockey team from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. The Twins won five Allan Cups as National Senior Champions from 1970 until 1991. Origin On 1 January 1970, the City of Thunder Bay w ...

represented Western Canada and defeated the

Barrie Flyers The Barrie Flyers were a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association from 1945 to 1960, from Barrie, Ontario. The Flyers played home games at the Barrie Arena from 1945 to 1960. History The Barrie Flyers junior team was founded in 1 ...

who represented Eastern Canada in the championship series.

History

The

were led by

Dave Siciliano Dave Siciliano (born July 1946) is a Canadian former ice hockey coach and player. He played university hockey for the Lakehead Nor'Westers, and led them to the International Collegiate Hockey Association championship as the most valuable playe ...

, as their player-coach for the 1974–75 season. The Twins played in the

United States Hockey League The United States Hockey League (USHL) is the top junior ice hockey league sanctioned by USA Hockey. The league consists of 16 active teams located in the midwestern United States, for players between the ages of 16 and 21. The USHL is strictly ...

(USHL) and won the final round of the league's playoffs with three consecutive wins versus Waterloo Black Hawks in a best-of-five series. The Twins had chosen not to participate in the 1975 Allan Cup playoffs due to scheduling conflicts with the USHL playoffs. After the St. Boniface Mohawks appealed for reconsideration, the Twins entered the Allan Cup playoffs upon the conclusion of the USHL playoffs, then won the series versus the Mohawks. In the Western Canada finals, the Twins won the best-of-five series with three consecutive victories versus the

Spokane Flyers Spokane Flyers could mean: * Spokane Flyers (senior), a former senior ice hockey team in the Western International Hockey League *Spokane Flyers (junior) The Spokane Flyers were a junior ice hockey team that played one and a half seasons in the W ...

. The Twins scored five goals in the last 25 minutes of the decisive third game, including the winning goal scored with six seconds remaining. In a best-of-seven series for the national championship, Siciliano and the Twins won the Allan Cup by defeating the defending champion

four games to two. The Twins then withdrew from the USHL due to travel costs and schedule commitments to represent Canada on a European tour in the 1975–76 season.

Best-of-seven series

:Barrie Flyers 8 - Thunder Bay Twins 5 :Thunder Bay Twins 7 - Barrie Flyers 2 :Barrie Flyers 7 - Thunder Bay Twins 4 :Thunder Bay Twins 8 - Barrie Flyers 2 :Thunder Bay Twins 5 - Barrie Flyers 2 :Thunder Bay Twins 8 - Barrie Flyers 4

References

External links

Allan Cup archives

Allan Cup website
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