With Friday's Mac's Midget Tournament final all set between the Calgary Flames and Lloydminster Bandit Pipeline Bobcats, there's plenty of history behind the 38 year history of the tournament including the last time an Alberta team took home the Mac's title.

The Calgary Buffaloes accomplished that feat back in 2008 defeating the Vancouver NW Giants 6-5 in double overtime to do it and you could say the Okotoks Oilers have their stamp on that win.

The man who scored the winner was former captain Greg Lamoureux who played alongside Oiler MVP in 2012-13 Chris Collins and the men behind the bench were current Head Coach James Poole and assistant coaches Derek Stuart and Bobby Fox.

Poole remembers that Christmas season well with his Buffs team needing all the help they could get just to get into the playoffs for the tournament and the rest is history.

"It was just running on adrenaline and I think for the players, for the coaches we were so exhausted from the roller coaster of tournament and the semi final day where you have to play two games in just one day, and the stress of just trying to get into the playoff round then playing in overtime in the quarter final," he says.

The Buffs would move onto the final at the Saddledome where they'd battle against now NHL Star Ryan Nugent-Hopkins of the Edmonton Oilers and Poole says that game had a little of everything before it was all said and done.

"To see them winning it and how the players responded in that big game playing against Nugent-Hopkins and the memories that come from that group of kids is something I won't forget and I know the kids that we coached that year from still running into them from time to time they don't forget either."

As tough as a game it was for the Buff players, Poole says the rush of winning that big of a tournament when Lamoureux scored the game winner was a feeling all on it's own.

"I remember at the end I think all of us were just wondering what just happened there, we couldn't believe we just won that tournament when 48 hours earlier we were looking like we were going to be eliminated," he says. "It was a great experience I just remember looking at the kids how much they enjoyed to be able to go to the Saddledome and play on that ice."

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