HALIFAX — The photograph is unmistakable: a young Winnipeg Rangers forward with a thick bandage wrapped around his head, his jaw set in the kind of determined grimace familiar to anyone who has laced up skates in this country.

Eight decades later, that image of Lou Medynski — taken during the 1941 Memorial Cup final — sits in a frame at his family’s home in Halifax. During a recent visit, his children spread out newspaper clippings, brittle programs, and fading team photos across the living-room table, piecing together a championship run that remains one of Manitoba’s most storied junior hockey triumphs.

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