#TBT: President's Cup champions

Five years ago on this day, your Halifax Mooseheads won their first President's Cup in franchise history. The Mooseheads were playing in the final against the Baie-Comeau Drakkar who was coached by the Herd's new hire, Eric Veilleux. Halifax won the series 4-1 and were able to win the trophy on home ice.

Stephen MacAulay
Photo - Montreal Gazette

I was one of the unfortunate ones to not be able to witness the game at the Metro Centre that night May 10, 2013 but I did watch it with probably a thousand other people in Grand Parade Square.

Veteran Stephen MacAulay, a native of Halifax who the Moose traded for in the middle of the season, scored the first and last goal of Game 5. Halifax got off to a good start, pulling out to a 3-0 lead after the first period in that deciding match before winning the game 5-1. Goals were scored by Stefan Fournier, Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin as well. It couldn't have ended much better for the fans of Moose Country and the team. Goaltender Zach Fucale made 34 saves to pick up the victory.

The Mooseheads rolled through the 2012-13 regular season, finishing the year with a 58-6-3-1 record and were very close to going through the playoffs undefeated but I guess they wanted to win the President's Cup on home ice. The team had one blemish losing to the Drakkar in Game 3 of the championship series. Below you'll find the scores of the series:

May 3 Drakkar 0 at Mooseheads 4
May 4 Drakkar 3 at Mooseheads 4
May 7 Mooseheads 1 at Drakkar 3
May 8 Mooseheads 7 at Drakkar 4
May 10 Drakkar 1 at Mooseheads 5

Check out the highlights below of Game 5

The team went on to the Memorial Cup tournament in Saskatoon and defeated the Portland Winterhawks in the final game to become national champs as well.

Check out my recap from that night here. You can find more on the final game here.

Hopefully we get to see this celebration again in 2019.