sy. s2 Castlegar News December 3). 19% ys y SPORTS Tretiak draws crowd in Calgary CALGARY (CP) — Tatiana Tretiak, the green eyed bride of the man once regarded as the world’s greatest hockey goaltender, sat beside her husband enthralled by what she saw. For three hours, the fans came in a steady stream to see her husband, Vladislav. They came with goalie sticks, goalie gloves, NHL jerseys, copies of Tretiak’s hard-to-find book The Hockey | Leve and even Montreal Canadiens’ pennants. There were kids like nine-year-old goalie Jeff Hope-Ross of Calgary and oldtimers like Richard Pohls chneider, 66. They waited patiently, in 3 line three people wide and 100 metres long, for an attograph from the retired netminder of the Soviet national hockey team. Viadislav Tretiak retired three years ago after leading the Soviets to the gold medal at the Sarajevo Olympics. His fans remember him from his Olympic performances and his duels with the NHL's best scorers in some legendary international tournaments. He's the best goalie in the world,” said Hope-Ross. At a news conference before the autograph session, a similar event was planned for Tuesday at West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Tretiak talked about his new career. I've been in the Red Army Sports Club since my childhood,” he said. “I'm edueated by this club. We have a special department of sports and games. “[ have 11 sports to look after.” ADMITS TO POWER Asked if he was in a high enough position to fire Red Army hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov, he said, “Yes. But only Soviet and Canadian teams on the 15th anniversary of their classic 1972 series. However, he said he doesn't miss playing. “| was on the national team for 15 years. Psychologically. the last couple of years were very hard. No family. No kids. Only hockey.” Tatiana was getting a taste of that on Monday. Their daughter, Trina, was at home celebrating her 10th birthday with a grandmother. “My daughter loves to play the piano. My son Dinka is 13. He loves skiing and basketball.” downtown mall coincided with the pre-Olympic Calgary Cup hockey tournament. SIGNS HIS NAME As her husband signed his name 1,000 times on sticks, gloves, pads, books, old Canada Cup programs, Tatiana sat beside him and watched. It was the first time she understood that he's a hockey legend in Canada and the Soviet Union. Her husband would bring home newspapers, she said through an interpreter. “I tried to imagine,” she said. “Players like Bobby Hull, Borry Orr and Wayne Gretzky have been very famous in the Soviet Union. But this is wonderful. ‘as coach of the club. Not as national coach.” Tretiak is also on the Soviet athletes’ committee for the Olympics. He talked about meeting retired Montreal Canadiens’ goalie Ken Dryden on Sunday night, and being disappointed that Dryden will not play in an oldtimers’ game between the CASTLEGAR PLAYER . . . takes a fall, courtesy of a Trail player in Atom Tournament play over the LOCALS Kelowna turned out to be the overall winner at the Castlegar Atom All star Tournament over the weekend at the Commun ity Complex while Castle gar came in a strong sec ond Kelowna won the three day tournament in a final game against Beaver Val ley Monday by skating toa weekend at the Community Complex won the game 1-0. 5-2 win in the A final. In other games Monday, Castlegar shut out Spo kane 5-0 in the B final and Cranbrook thumped Trail 9-3 in the C final. Tournament action got under way Saturday morn ing with Castlegar facing off against Beaver Valley An overtime period de cided the game as both teams pulled their goalies. Castlegar Beaver Valley managed to score into Castlegar's em. pty net to win the game 54. Castlegar goalscorers were Mike Byers with two, while Ian Dudley and Rick Fauth managed singles. In a game Sunday, Byers managed to score the game's only goal to give Castlegar a 1-0 win over Trail Another goali “Nyet. He's a little afraid.” And Tatiana, what does she love? “I know she loves me more than she loves hockey.” Tretiak was invited to Calgary by the 1988 Winter Olympics organizing committee. His IN GRAND FORKS “It’s not very often one has an opportunity like this to visit another part of the world and see something like this. appearance in a Junior Rockettes to begin season By DOUG PILATZKE Although it has been a mild winter throughout the West Kootenay, the action is expected to heat up even more when the Junior Rockettes basketball team begins play next week. The team opens on the road with a game against Grand Forks Wolverines on Wed- nesday. The new season will see the Stanley Humphries gals gunning for their’ fourth consecutive West Koot. enay championship and as coach I think the team has an abundance of talent to make that goal realistic. We have a nice blend with seven returning veterans and five rookies. The vets know how hectic the schedule can get with weekday league games and weekend tournaments. The rookies are a very talented group from the KJSS Grade 8 program and playing for the Rockettes is something they've been looking toward for several years. So who should local hoop fans be keeping an eye on during the first part of the league schedule? Lucy Cardoso is a setond-year guard who never says very much but who works hard all the time. Look for Lucy to shoot more this year and pick up lots of loose balls on defence. Judi Closkey is a second-year guard whose speed and experience will help the team tremendously. If her defence has improved, Judi will contribute her fine ballhandling and shooting skills to the team effort. Arla Goolieff is a second-year for ward who provides inside size and re bounding. Carrie Gorkoff is a second-year for ward who gained valuable experience last season. Look for ‘Carrie to draw fouls off offensive rebounds and to play a solid game at the defensive end of the court. Czechs to Soviet juniors NITRA, CZECHOSLOVA The Czechoslovak Vicki Gritchen is a second-year forward who works hard all the time. Vicki's strongpoint is defence and she will always draw a tough checking assignment. Sherri Popoff is a second-year swing: player who can play guard or forward as the occasion necessitates. One of the fastest players on the team, Sherri will be especially effective in the Rockettes’ pressing defence. , Jennifer Rezansoff is a second-year forward who is one of the team’s toughest players. Look for Jennifer to go inside and out-rebound taller op ponents. She is also a force on defence because of her strength and fractious style of play. The girls play their home-opener It’s very wonderful. Vladislav said through the interpreter that he was happy to have his wife in Calgary “so she can see something that’s been part of me.” LUCY CARDOSO . works hard next Friday at Selkirk College against J.L. Crowe Hawkettes. Game time is 5:30. Team Western ties | Soviet under 17s WINNIPEG (CP) — Graham Garden scored his third goal of the game midway through the third period to give Team Western a 6-6 tie with the Soviet National under 17 team before a crowd of about 4,500 Tuesday The Soviet team, on a nine-game Canadian tour, previously recorded three wins over Team Ontario. Bill Liskowich of Regina coached Team. Western, comprised of nine Mani tobans and 11 Saskatchewan midget aged players. Garden, a rightwinger Western Hockey League Brandonf Wheat Kings, just managed to nudge the puck across the line for the tying goal less than three minutes after Chris with nel Stewart had closed the gap to 6-5. Team Western surprised the Soviets by grabbing a 3-0, first-period lead on goals by Glen Goodall, Sean Jackson and Garden. Sergei Boldoveshko and Igor Kor olyov narrowed Team Western's lead to 3-2 at the end of the first period Stanislav Tugolukov scored on the power-play early in the second. Garden notched his second power-play goal of the night to restore the Canadian lead. The Soviets outshot Team Western 38-28, with Canadian goaltender Dar ron Kustra being called upon to make a number of key saves, especially in the game's dying moments pple Mid-Week Wrap-up team, HOCKEY Propp. Phitedelphva 71.890. 5. Glenn A 6 c Froese tou ‘The Canadian Press Goaltender Bob Froese is wearing a different uniform these days but he still looks the same to the Pittsburgh Penguins It's a seary sight for the Penguins, who have been unable to beat or even tie Froese in his 16 career appearances against them. Froese, traded to the New York Rangers from the Philadelphia Flyers this month, kept his spotless record intact against the Penguins as the Rangers defeated Pittsburgh 5-3 in National Hockey League action Tues day night Walt Poddubny and Jan Erixon each scored twice as the Penguins’ winless streak stretched to eight games, 0-5-3 The loss dropped Pittsburgh to 15-15-7, the first time this season the Penguins have been .500. They started the season with a team-record seven game winning streak. Froese, making his third start for New York, stopped 31 shots as the Rangers moved to within one point of fourth-place New Jersey in the Patrick Division. With 34 points, New York trails third-place Pittsburgh by three. In other games, it was: Quebec Nor diques 6, Montreal Canadiens 3; Chi cago Blackhawks 5, New York Island ers 3; Calgary Flames 4, New Jersey Devils 3; St. Louis Blues 4,; Boston Bruins 3; Hartford Whalers 3, Wasb ington Capitals 1; Los Angeles Kings 4, Philadelphia Flyers 1; and E Oilers 7, Vancouver Canucks 4 gh on Pens KINGS 4 FLYERS / Defencemen Steve Duchesne and Jay Wells scored first-period goals and goaltender Rollie Melanson made 22 saves as Los Angeles handed visiting Philadelphia its fourth straight loss. The losing streak matches the Fly ers’ longest since they lost four in a row Feb. 27 through March 4 last season. NORDIQUES 6 CANADIENS 3 In Quebec, Miche] Goulet scored twice and added an assist and rookie Trevor Stierburg’s first NHL goal proved to be the winner as the Nor- diques defeated the Montreal Can adiens in a penalty-filled game. Rookie Jason Lafreniere, Gilbert Delorme and Brent Ashton also scored For Quebec, while Peter Stastny and Alain Cote each had two assists. Soviets steamroll U.S. 10-1 CALGARY (CP) First string goaltender Evgeniy Belosheikin sat relaxing at Still, the Big Red Machine destroyed the United States his street clothes. room to accept the award in Soviet coach Victor Tik At which ended 3-0. The Soviets led 8-1 after 40 minutes. times it seemed the KIA (CP) — Czechoslovakia meanwhile, has rebounded toppled the defending cham. from an 8-2 upset Saturday at pion Soviet Union 5-3 Tues- the hands of the United day to move into a tie for first States by beating Canada 5-1 place and edge closer to its goal of winning a gold medal for the first time in the 11-year history of the world junior hockey championships. In other games Tuesday, Canada crushed Poland 18-3, to keep its medal hopes alive, Sweden blanked Finland 5-0 and the United States troun. ced Switzerland 12-6. Czechoslovakia is tied atop the eight-country standings with the United States and Sweden. All three teams have three wins and a loss but the Czechoslovaks have a much easier schedule ahead of them. If the Czechoslovaks win their remaining games against Poland, Switzerland and Finland, and the Amer. icans tie or lose once, the gold medal will go the host coun try Today is a rest day. The and now the Soviets. MET TEAM The Czechoslovak sport ministry was so traubled by the loss to the United States that a top-ranking govern ment official spoke with the players prior to Monday's game against Team Canada Pat Elynuik, of the West ern Hockey League's Prince Albert Raiders, scored three goals to lead Canada over the mismatched Poles. Poland has lost all three of its games and has been outscored 55-8. Canada outshot Poland 53-22. Brendan Shanahan of the Ontario Hockey League's London Knights, Pierre Tur geon of the Quebec Major Junior’ Hockley League's Granby Bisons, Everett San ipass of the QMJHL's Verdun Canadians, Theoren Fleury of the WHL’s Moose Jaw 10-1 in the fourth game of the Calgary Cup, a pre-Olympic hockey tournament We tried real hard but they were just a tad too strong for us,” said U.S. for ward Alfie Turcotte in what may be the understatement of the year Larionov was chosen the top performer for the Soviets after he assisted on goals by the dressing Krutov, Makarov and Fetis with 12 minutes remaining in ov. Tournament organizers the game pulled him out of the dressing the end of the Soviet Union's bench, his work done after 40 minutes Star defenceman Viaches lav Fetisov was beside him his helmet off. He had seen little action in the third period And the Soviet top line of Makarov, Vladimir and Igor Larionov Sergei Krutov was in room honov said the early showers for the Central Red Army line were “a normal way todo this kind of business. It gives a rest to the top players and gives a chance to some young players to show their skills, especially in a game where the result is ob- Soviets were almost toying with the hastily assembled U.S. squad, which consists of a few NHL prospects and a lot of players from the In ternational Hockey League Tuesday's result put the Soviets into Saturday's sud den-death final The Soviets, who have won their first two games by an have been obvious to the aggregate score of 14-1, play 10,777 spectators about half- Canada tonight in a sellout at way through the first period the Olympic Saddledome vious.” The eventual result must United States plays Canada Warriors and Steve Memeth on Thursday while the Czech- of the Canadian Olympic oslovaks clash with the Poles, team scored two goals apiece: Finland meets the Swiss and Yvon Corriveau of the Na the Soviets take on Sweden. tional Hockey League's The Czechs have won the Washington Capitals, Steve silver medal four times and Chiasson of the NHL's De last year, in Hamilton, placed troit Red Wings. Dave Latta fourth. of the OHL's Kitchener Ran The Canadian win Tuesday gers, Glen Wesley of the moved Team Canada, 2-1-1, WHL's Portland Winter into a tie for fourth spot with Hawks, and Chris Joseph of Finland, one point ahead of the WHL's Seattle Thunder the 2-2 Soviets. birds got one goal each. Ct WALES CONFERENCE Patrick Division wT nders steer” SE S9¥3s Spaactes TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Americen League 2 Rongers gn Steve Buechete \ By CHISHOLM MacDONALD Rick Hansen: a man for all seasons. And for popular reasons. The Man in Motion from Williams Lake, celebrated his 29th birthday last Aug. 26 in St. John's, Nfld., by sliding into a low-slung chair with a near-i bk RICK HANSEN: Man for all seasons “But I don't want people to use me as a role model for other disabled persons,” he said in an interview in Blind River, Ont. “Everyone is different and there are many types of disabilities. “You may see a person in a wheelchair and he may be able to wheel around the world. You may see a person ina dream for a paraplegic — to wheel his way across Canada. Impossible, except that he had already wheeled his way through 33 other countries. It was with the same goal in mind — to raise money for spinal-cord research, raise public awareness of the potential of the disabled and further ir sport. He has barely reached the midway point of his Canadian trek, but the herculean efforts of this genial star athlete have captured, the admiration of thousands of Canadians and won him the honor of being overwhelming ly voted newsmaker of 1986 by newspaper, radio and television editors polled by The Canadian Press and its Broadcast News affiliate. @A lot of things have happened along the way. Baked by heat and buzzed by summer mosquitoes, pounded by drenching rain and finally by sleet and snow in remote countrysides, Hansen has basked in the spotlight, personally accepting a $1-million cheque from Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, signing thousands of autographs for hero-worshipping youngsters and hob- nobbing with celebrities at gala gatherings. He even had a tiny township in Northern Ontario named after him. Then there was that special incident in Shediac, N.B. — his engagement to his physiotherapist, Amanda Reid, who has been part of the tour long before it entered its final Canadian stretch. Reid, 27, a Vancouver native, is a driving force in the daily scheduling and the couple plan to marry next October, about five months after the tour ends in Vancouver By tour's end, he kopes he will have raised $10 million for his cause. and he may have trouble wheeling across the street. , “We have to take the time to understand there are different kinds of disabilities. “Sometimes, a dream for a disabled person may be just simply getting out of a hospital bed and into a wheelchair. It may be getting back into normal family life, maybe ing a professi in wh area. “It's not easy; it is a tough thing, but it’s possible to overcome. Hansen has overcome other obstacles. The first disabled person to graduate in physical education from the University of British Columbia, he’s a carded athlete, meaning he has been paid by Sports Canada to represent Canada in athletic events. He has also coached a number of sports and hopes to return to coaching or teach physical education. He won nine gold medals at the 1982 Pan-American Wheelchair Games in Halifax, competing in events ranging from 100 to 1,500 metres and setting six world records in the process. Although it was hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky who won the 1982 Lou Marsh Trophy, presented annually to Canada’s top athlete, amateur or pro, Hansen was singled out for the first Lou Marsh merit award that year. In 1984, Hansen excelled in the Paralympics in England and competed in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles that summer in a special 1,500-metre race. On his world tour, he has muscled his way up the steep Great Wall of China and across the rugged terrain of the Middle East, but he’s facing even greater challenges in Canada. It'll take all the stuff of a champion to beat the Prairie winters. ON THE MOVE... Canada. , the last lap in the round the world trip. 1987: The By TIM NAUMETZ Canadian Press It's the year of the hare in 1987 and politicians might be inspired by the Chinese astrological sign as they ponder their futures. Liberals could dust off an old copy of the famous fable starring an over-confident hare and a plodding tortoise Alice in Wonderland and her nutty March Hare would make good bedtime reading for New Democrats — a reminder that there is reality and then there is fantasy. And uptight Conservatives might try to relax watching old Bugs Bunny reruns. Laugh and the world laughs with you. OTTAWA Canadian John Turner's Liberals ended 1986 on a high It had been two years since their devastating loss to the Conservatives. Drummed out of office in September 1984, the Liberals were leading in public opinion polls by 10 to 15 per cent at the end of ‘86 CONFIRM TURNER after arm-wrestling with Jean Chretien's phantom and lesser spirits for nine months — got a solid vote of confidence as leader from the party in late November Our enemy is not here, our enemy is across from us in the House of Commons,” said Turner as he thanked a cheering convention that voted 76.3 per cent to keep him Brian Mulroney's Conservatives ended the year in the dumps. Turner Besieged in the Commons over new drug legislation and a bumbling post office, they were struggling over trade negotiations with Washington, fighting among themselves over a free vote on capital punishment and desperately seeking ways to regain lost popularity And Ed Broadbent and his New coasting Democrats were BROADBENT TOPS At times outperforming the Liberals in the daily Commons question period, the) making gains at Conservative expense in the West and passing the Tories in Quebec. Broadbent was still the most popular of the three leaders across the country were It all added up to some unusual political forecasts. Liberals, their banishment still a fresh memory, were already talking up a minority government with them in charge the next time around. The New Democrats were tantalized by the thought of becoming Her Majesty's loyal and official Opposition. And a handful of muttering Tories were drawn into conversations however far out — about whether they have anyone who can replace Mulraney There is little doubt that Mulroney will call an election in 1988. Some diehards refuse to rule out the possibility of a trip to the polls earlier, but most signs point to late summer or fall of "88. four years after the historic Tory win. BOOST UNLIKELY Although in politics one can expect the unexpected. there are few indications that support before then. A trade deal with the United States is unlikely before early 1988 if ever and the fall of 1987 will be taken up with a Commonwealth summit in Vancouver and a summit of francophone countries in Quebec City Conservative will increase In 1988, Canada stages the Winter Olympics and that spring Mulroney gets centre stage as the country plays host to the annual economic summit of the western industrialized countries. All are good tactical arguments for holding off an election until later that year Which means that the three parties will bejostling for position in 1987 as the election stage is set The government political life,” is now at the critical stage of its said Newfoundland Liberal MP Brian Tobin He argued that the Tories will have to use their next budget, in February. as the first step on the long road back BRIAN MULRONEY in the dumps before facing voters again. But Tobin's party also could be at a key point in its life Coming out of the wrangle over Turner's leadership. the Liberals were broke. Their policy was a muddled patchwork stitched together at the same convention that confirmed direction grassroots in charge left-of-centre leader his 39 cabinet ministers haven't yet increase the special salary allowances they Turner's leadership And their caucus that was confused, had surprised by the policy development taken with the Liberal Senator Keith Davey and former heavyweight Marc Lalonde warned that the party would lose ground to the NDP under Turner said if the country polarized to the right and the left, the Liberals would be lost in the shuffle pictured as a conservative. They COULD HURT It seemed the party worked hard to come up with some policy to compensate for a right-of centre Liberals could not agree to oppose free trade with the United States and yet passed key resolutions — one against cruise testing and the other calling for Canada to bec me a ED BROADBENT coasting nuclear-free zone — that could hurt relations with NATO and alienate Washington Winnipeg pollster Angus Reid said the Liberals actually gave a stamp of legitimacy to policy that once was the exclusive domain of the New Democrats. “I predict that at least once next year, the NDP will be second in the polls,” Reid said. In that scenario, the Tories would fall to third place NDP IS SECOND In Quebec, by year's end, the New already second with 30 of decided voters npared with 26 for the Tories and 43 for the Liberals and were optimistic about other regions Democrats were per cent “I think we're in a better position now than we have ever been as a party to make a really major breakthrough,” said Saskatchewan MP Lorne Nystrom, the NDP’s deputy House leader But most observers say Quebec voters are only using the NDP as a parking lot while they look twice at Mulroney and Turner The NDP knows that the West could play a big role in JOHN TURNER vote of contidence the party's prospects partly decision to give the CF 18 jet Canadair of Montreal Winnipeg “I think there may be a major realignment in Western Canada,” Nystrom said. “That's the biggest single danger the Conservatives face Reid said the Conservatives, concentrating on two major goals because of Mulroney's maintenance contract to instead of Bristol Aerospace of meanwhile, will be in 1987 — improving Mulroney's credibility and running the country's affairs without major bungles There are indications from leading Tories that Reid is right The last thing we're thinking about in this office is when to call an election.” Geoff Norquay top aides, said in December Asked what the priorities were. he replied: “Well. a budget, free trade, the Constitution and child care "Of course I would be lying if I told you we thinking about the post office For the record, 1988 is the one of Mulroney's weren't year of the dragon MP salaries climb to $75,400 OTTAWA (CP) Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and decided whether to get for their compared to $73,800 this year announced by Finance Minister Michael Wilson in his last extra duties or to continue the freeze they imposed in Even if they opt for the freeze, their monthly pay cheques will still rise in 1987 because the basic pay package all MPs and senators receive continues to increase Mulroney will earn $1 next $131,055 in 1986 and cabinet ministers will collect $112,930 up from $111,330 this year, if their special allowances remain the same The average backbench MP will receive $75,400 in 1987 1985. year compared to after the $1,000 pay cut budget Wilson Said the 282 MPs and 104 senators would have $1,000 carved from each of their 1986 salaries as part of the government's plan to reduce the federal deficit But since the legislation wasn't passed until Dec. 19 the day MPs and senators went home for Christmas — the cut will come out of their 1987 pay MPs will likely see the first three o' r monthly pay cheques reduced by $333.33 each to pay off the $1,000. The cut officially counts on their 1986 salaries but effectively reduces salary increases from now on All MPs, including Mulroney basic salaries of $56,300 plus allowances based on their riding locations MPs from the Northwest Territories wi allowances of $25,200 next year. The figure for those ridings, including Mulroney's riding of Manicouagan, will be $23,500 MPs in all the other ridings will receive $19,100 for their expense although the costs of running their offices, travel to and from their ridings and other perks of the job are paid out of general Commons expenses and cabinet ministers. earn tax free expense have expense f in 23 remote sprawling Quebec allowances. That means ordinary MI’s from not hold party positions will earr $75.400 next year regular ridings wh basic pay $73.800 in 1986 packages up from $52.955 next and cabine $37.530 if they decide to extend the two ye another year Mulroney duties as prime will earn year minister minist In 1985, Mulroney decided to reduce his a per cent and cabinet ministers’ allowances by 1( Cabinet voted to keep the freeze ir the decision on 1987 salaries per cent 1986 but ha yet made If they decide to pay themselves what they entitled to. cabinet ministers could receive Mulroney could collect $145,200 r $119,100. By freezing their salaries for two years. the governine has saved taxpayers $20,390 on Mulroney's pay and $37 on cabinet ministers 600