News April 17, 1901 F in fine form By CasNews Staff diers Debbie Tompkins of Castlegar won a third-place trophy and $50 in the Limited Class at 1991 Fiddle Contest and Dance at the Castlegar Community Complex. A di i of Potlatch idaho in the 12 years and under class at the 1991 Fiddle Contest and Dance held at the Castlegar Cc y Complex. An_-estimated 300 to 350 people i: contestants, their families and friends gathered for the annual event by the K t +. i ; 2nd ($20) — Chapier of the B.C, Oldtime Fiddlers Association. The following is a complete list of winners: Junior-Junior Class (12 years and under) Ist ($35) — Megan Mulligan of Spokane; ($25) — Daniel Huscroft of Erickson, — Chip Gilliam of Harvard, Idaho. Junior Class (13-17) Ist ($75) — Amy Gilliam of Harvard; 2nd ($50) — Vel Huscroft of Erickson; 3rd ($35) — Anna Vogt of Potlatch, Idaho. "Senior Class (65 and Older) William Werbenuk of Penticton; 2nd ($75) — Charlie Prest of Abbotsford: 3rd ($50) — Doris Howard of Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Ist ($100) — Duet Class (All Ages) Ist ($30) — Miriam Anderson and Vel Huscroft of Mable and Anna Vogt of Potlatch; 3rd ($10) — Al Procyshyn of Revelstoke and Kevin Kienlein of Vernon. Limited Class (18 and Older) Ist ($100) — Bea Hassler of Vernon; 2nd ($75) — B.C Ron Zolman of Greenacres, Wash.; 3rd ($50) — Debbie Tompkins of Castlegar. Open Class (18 and over) Ist ($150) — Al Procyshyn of Revelstoke; 2nd ($100) — Kevin Kienlein of Vernon; 3rd ($75) — Tony Smandych of Creston. ‘Championship Class (All Ages) Ist ($200) — Leo Ready of Kamloops; 2nd ($150) — Sheila Everts of Spokane; 3rd ($100) — Mable Vogt of Potlach. Most Popular Accompaniest Sheila Everts of Spokane. John Milosevich of Castlegar plays to about 300 peop! Saturday while competing in the 18 and older limited cluss. 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It’s time to call your Welcome Wagon hostess. She will bring congratu- lations and gifts for the family and the NEW BABY! 0 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWw = GIGANTIC SPRING WWWWWWWWWWW ALE : 10:5 00 LADIES WEAR & FABRICS 25 or FASHION FABRICS ___ ALL SPORTSWEAR Dresses, Silk Scarves, , Cotton Sleepwear vee 3 OOn 10% Off gag APRIL 18 © 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. , APRIL 19 © 9 a.m.-9 p.m. , APRIL 20 © 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. % COATS, JACKETS, SELECTED HANDBAGS UP TO 50% OFF SELECTED Housecoats, Shower Curtains, Fabrics There’s more politics going on in sports in this town than there is at city hall. And nowhere is it more Prominent and cutting than it is in minor hockey in Castlegar. Rifts between parents and coaches, parents and players and players and coaches all but destroyed the bantam rep team — on and off the ice — last season. I've also heard of similar problems on a smaller scale with the peewee rep team. Having played in the minor hockey system (in Ontario) for quite a 4éw years myself, I'll assume the reason for the problems that seem to perennially grip minor hockey are the same as when I saw them as a kid — parents. The dynamics of a minor hockey team usually include some parents who are just kooky and others who think that their ankle- burner is the next Gretzky. But beyond that, the major Problem in minor hockey, as F saw it, was parents coaching their kids. In some cases, dad coaching son can work, usually when a team is successful and there’s not a lot to scream about. In a lot of other cases, it just doesn’t. Though my father never coached me in minor hockey, I played on a team with a player whose dad was coach and as far as I can recall that kid didn’t have the greatest time of his life. I remember him being reserved, Perhaps embarrassed at times, and basically not much fun. How much his demeanor had to do with the fact that his dad was a lousy coach I don’t know. 1 do know kids aren*t stupid: If they sense a father is favoring his son they're going to say something about~#_— probably to his son. If the kids don’t like the coach, the son is looked upon in the same way whether he did anything or not. Locally, you know it’s bad when some parents would rather their kids didn’t even play rep hockey and having those kids agree. I know some in this town who feel that way. (The house leagues, by and large, tend to be far less afflicted with politics and therefoge an attractive alternative to fed up parents.) So what can be done? One thing you can’t do is ask the parents because if they have kids on a team they can’t really be trusted to answer objectively. There’s no way any minor hockey system could function without parents being involved, 80 you can’t stop parents outright from coaching their kids, Often parents use hockey to be closer to their kids so you can’t really ex- pect any minor hockey association to change that. No, that’s not the answer. One obvious solution would be for parents who get miffed about what they see to be wrong with minor hockey to try more con- structive ways of dealing with those problems instead of back- stabbing and whining. Perhaps there could be a time limit or a certain number of years a dad is allowed to coach his son's team. Maybe minor associations should try to en- courage more women to step behind the bench and onto the executives. Let’s hope that some fresh faces on the executive of the Castlegar Minor Hockey Association can overcome \the parental politics of hockey and try to put players before per- sonalities and politics in the minor system next year. Though, as past executives have found out, it sounds a lot easier than it is. Considering adults have been behaving like adolescents when it comes to minor hockey for, well, forever, 1 wouldn’t hold my breath that it will be any dif- ferent for a while. hockey 2 players following footsteps of pros Hockey stars picked for Kootenay team JACEY MOORE ++. excited about it MIKE HUNTER ++. test to come Bruins’ ghosts are gone MONTREAL (CP) — Each time the Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins meet in the playoffs — which is just about every year — the ghosts and spirits of past series seem to appear. “It’s what hockey should be,’’ Montreal coach Pat Burns said on the eve. of Game | of the NHL Adams Division final tonight at the Boston Garden. “It’s what everybody wants to see. When you think Montreal-Boston, Playoff schedule, in stats, page B2 you think about the heritage of hockey. You get people who go back years who stayed up to watch these games."” The Canadiens and Bruins will meet in the playoffs for the eighth consecutive year and the 26th time since 1929. Montreal holds a 21-4 advantage, but the Bruins have won two of the last three, including a five-game win last April. “There was the jinx for years and years about how Boston couldn’t beat Montreal,”’ said Burns, referring to a run of 18 consecutive meetings without a win that the Bruins ended in 1988, “That’s over now. They don’t believe in the ghosts anymore.”” The Bruins downed Hartford and Montreal beat Buffalo, each in six games and each for the second year in a row, to set up yet - another meeting between the rouse playoff combatants. The Bruins are in the playoffs for @ record 24th consecutive year. Mon- treal is in its 21st playoff in a row. The history and familiarity are motivation in themselves, Burns said. “Anyone who's not motivated to play Boston shouldn't even put on the skates,”” he said. “You see it when you go into the old Garden and they’ve won five Stanley Cups and it’s the same for them when they come into the Forum and see our (23) banners."’ An added bonus is that in the last ay years the winner of the series has dispatcted the Patrick Division champion and gone to the Stanley Cup final. “it may be different this year,” By ED MILLS Staff Writer A pair of Castlegar Minor Hockey players have joined a category that includes the likes of NHL players Ray Ferraro, Russ Courtnall, Cliff Ronning, Joe Sakic and Mark Rec- chi. Like all those” big-leaguers once were, bantam .rep goalie Jacey Moore and midget rep forward Mike Hunter were selected to play for their District team as part of the B.C. Amateur Hockey Association's Best Ever program. The two are in a group of 20 selec- ted out of 48 players from across the Kootenays who attended a three-day year. ‘‘The B.C. Cup is going to be three times the level it was at the (tryouts),"" he said. Forty players from the 120 who compete in the B.C. Cup will be selected to try out for the provincial camp which will take place in July. From that camp, 10 players will be selected and will join 10 from Alber- ta to make up Team Pacific which will compete in an_ international tournament this Christmas. One of Hunter’s teammates on the midget reps, Nino DaCosta, was selected to the Kootenay team last year but didn’t make the cut at the B.C, Cup. The objective of the program, which began in 1984, is to increase the chances for athletes from B.C. to compete provi and selection camp in Cranb) the first week of April. “I’m excited about it. It’s a pretty good level of hockey,”’ said Moore, a Grade 10 student at Stanley Hum- phries secondary school, who turns 16 years old in December. The next step for Hunter and Moore is the B.C. Cup District tour- nament April 25-28 in Osoyoos. The Cup is a showcase of the top under-17-year-old players from across the province. They will play each other on district teams — Van- couver Island, two teams from the Lower Mainland, Okanagan and a Northern team — in a round-robin competition. “The next level’s the real test,’ said Hunter, who turned 16 this inter with the ultimate goal being the Olympic Games, says a B.C. Recreation and Sport brochure about the program. “The B.C. Best Ever program allows us the opportunity to evaluate Players within the existing club system and then, when time permits, extract these players for special training at the provincial level,”’ the brochure says. Castlegar players Fred Gienger and Ken Skibinski also went to the camp. Nelson players John Dvorak, Damon Jeffs and Rob McLean also made the 20-player team along with Trail players Frank Lucareli, Ryan Huska, Brian Tavaroli and Mike leave Applies to junior | A league By ED MILLS Staff Writer The Trail Smoke Eaters and Cranbrook Colts will be leaving the Junior B Kootenay Inter- national Junior Hockey League to become part of a Kootenay division in a Junior A league. Trail and Cranbrook, along with Kimberley and Fernie, have applied for and expect to get franchises in the -Peace-Cariboo Junior Hockey League, KIJHL executive Eddie in said Trail to KIJHL we want is for the kids from the Kootenays to be playing at home." Mountain, who last year was general manager of the Columbia Valley Rockies, said te and KIJHL president John (Bronco) Horvath had been ‘working on this Junior A set up" for a long time, Mountain will seek approval of the plan at a KIJHL general meeting in Creston tonight. The B.C. Junior Hockey League also needs to approve the plan, he said, Castlegar Rebels president Russ Rilcof and Horvath couldn’t be reached for comment today. PG@JHL governors will meet in May to determine if the four- team league will expand, said today from his office in Inver- mere. That would leave the KIJHL with four teams in each division next year — Castlegar, Nelson, Beaver Valley and Grand Forks im the West, and Columbia Valley, Elk Valley, Spokane and a new franchise in Golden in the East, said Mountain. Cranbrook played in the East Division and Trail played in the West while Kimberley folded its KIJHL franchise before the start of last season. “It’s just a step up, We're not breaking the (KIJHL) league up, and we're not going to hurt the KIJHL,”’ Mountain said. ‘All league Neil Fowlie. Grand Prairie, Alta., has also applied for a franchise. Existing teams in the PCJH are located in Prinee— Williams Lake; Quesnel and Fort St/Tohn. The KIJHL championship Smokies were just eliminated in the Western Canadian champion- ship held in Stoney Plain, Alta. Mountain, who will be the general manager of the Cran- brook franchise in the PCJHL's Kootenay division, said an an- nouncement on the new scholarship and education plans for players will be announced in two to three weeks. The SHSS track and field team out all the kinks and Jett was feeling the pain _ Conttews photo by Ed Mulls tie Te Teh ot his McDicken. team was on aera Tuesday afternoon the West Kootenay 14, Shot put competitor season workout. Champs win a humdinger game By NEIL STEVENS The Canadian Press It was one humdinger of a hockey Series. Esa Tikkanen’s third goal of the game at 6:58 into overtime Tuesday night gave the Edmonton Oilers a 5-4 victory over the Flames in Calgary and ended a fierce first-round playoff. “This will be remembered as one of the greatest series there’s ever been,’ Edmonton coach John Muckler said before the seventh- game climax. “I expect (NHL president) John Ziegler to come out of the woodwork and present the Stanley Cup to the winners. “These teams have gone at it as though this was the last series ‘they expected to play this season, not the first. In terms of hitting and aggressive play, sustained from beginning to end, I’ve never seen anything like it.’" Most of the 20,000 spectators in the Saddledome were clad in Fiames ted for the .deciding game of the Smythe Division semifinal. The noise was deafening as the home team charged to a 3-0 lead on goals by Robert Reichel, Joe Nieuwendyk and Theoren Fleury in the first 16 minutes. It grew, quieter as the defending champions fought back to 3-3 by the end of the second period on goals by Tikkanen, Glenn Anderson and Tikkanen again. A goal at 4:38 of the third period by Soviet veteran Anatoli Semenov, seeing his first action of the playoffs, put the Oilers on top 4-3. But pugnacious Ronnie Stern squeezed a puck past Oilers goalie Grant Fuhr with 2:10 left in the third period to make it 4-4. All of which led. to Tikkanen’s winner: the Finn's wrist shot from the right wing circle caught the inside of the short-side post and richocheted up under the cross bar behind goaltender Mike Vernon The Oilers fly to Los Angeles for the opening game of the Smythe final Thursday night against Wayne Gretzky and the Kings, who have been resting since eliminating the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday Wings blow it big against Blues ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Blues never doubted they’d make NHL history. “The coaches never panicked and they never questioned our ability to do it,’ right winger Brett Hull said after the Blues beat the Red Wings 3. 2 Tuesday night to become the eighth team in NHL history to come back from a deficit of three games to one to win a best-of-seven series. “I'm telling you, it’s just a relief,”” said left winger Dave Lowry, who was on the ice for the final minute as the Blues held off a final Detroit charge. “‘We're just going to savor this, at least for the night.” Hull’s breakaway goal was a key to the Blues’ victory in Game 7. It came with 21 seconds remaining in the second period off a steal by Adam Oates against a weary Detroit line and snapped @ 1-1 tie. When you see him coming on a breakaway, you don't think about it," Red Wings goaltender Tim Cheveldae said. ““You just try and react to what he does. “*He just shot it and it went bet- ween my arm and my body.”” It was Hull's league-leading eighth playoff goal, breaking his own team record for goals in a series set last year against Chicago. Dan Quinn and Rich Sutter also scored and asad two assists for the Blues. Yves Racine and Jimmy Carson scored for the Red Wings. St. Louis stays home to open the Norris Division final Thursday night against Minnesota. After the game, Detroit coach Bryan Murray revealed that star cen- tre Steve Yzerman, who was held scoreless the last four games, had in- jured his knee in Game 4. The last team to come back from @ 3-2 deficit was last year's Edmonton Oilers, who defeated Winnipeg en route to their fifth Stanley Cup in seven years. Others to the feat were Los Angeles (1989), Washington (1988), Detroit and the New York Islanders (1987), the Islanders in 1975 and Toronto in 1942.