The Halifax Mooseheads will relive the magic of last year’s Memorial Cup victory Thursday night, when they kick off their Quebec Major Junior Hockey League season against their Maritime rivals the Moncton Wildcats.

Moose Country will celebrate the win all over again, as the new Memorial cup banner is raised in a 20-minute pregame ceremony, in front of a record season opener crowd.

“It’s going to be an honour, there is no other way to describe it than just an honour to be part of the group that made history,” says player Austyn Hardie.

Hardie’s parents, Bob and Lynn, are excited for another chance to celebrate their son and his teammates.

“We were in Saskatoon for the Memorial Cup, so we got to see that, so to see the banner go up is the icing on the cake,” says Bob.

“Everyone’s going to relive that moment and they deserve it,” says Lynn. “The team is an amazing team, you know, they’re a great bunch of boys.”

Brian Urquhart is a part of the Mooseheads business operations. He says Thursday’s ceremony is a chance to celebrate for those who wished they could have been at the Memorial Cup.

“A lot, of course, couldn’t make the 3,000 kilometre trek out there and tonight’s an opportunity for us all to get together and celebrate as one,” says Urquhart.

For fans like Don Fleming, who stayed with the team for the last two decades through good times and the bad, reliving the ultimate victory one last time will be sweet.

“It was a different feeling last year, you could come to the Metro Centre knowing you were going to win, versus knowing that you probably will lose," says Fleming.

However, there will be some notable absences from the celebration. The powerhouse front line that propelled the team to victory has moved on.

Jonathan Drouin is now with the Tampa Bay Lightning, Martin Frk signed with the Detroit Red Wings and Nathan MacKinnon went to the Colorado Avalanche.

Returning players like Brendan Duke say they are excited for the new season to begin.

“I just think about all the hard work that we went through throughout the whole season to prepare for that moment and to start it over again this year,” he says.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Ron Shaw