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Castlegar News ° Jonvary 4, 1989

SPORTS

By GRANT KERR
The Canadian Press

Quinn, now president and general manager of the
Vancouver Canucks, said recently.

“We had an inordinate number of high achievers
They were /highly

that season,” said Quinn.

Remember these hockey greats? Frank Bathe. “In retr
Tom Goerence. Norm Barnes. Mike Busniuk, John lishment for t
Paddick. Al Hill

They're“ not exacly household -names—or
members of the Hockey Hall of Fame, but they're in
the National Hockey League record book.

All were members of the remarkable Phila
delphia Flyers team that in 1979-80 set an NHL
record for consistency

That team, coached by Pat Quinn, went
consecutive league games without a defeat — 25 wins
and 10 ties between Oct. 14, 1979, and Jan. 6, 1980.

“When we were going through it, the magnitude
of the achievement really doesn’t dawn on: you,”

something lik

from Bob McC;
qT

Bladon, Orest

Behn Wilson

Pittsburgh Pe

pect, it was a accomp.
hat team. It was one of those magical

things that happens once ina lifetime. Obviously we

‘some-gameswe-shouldn't have,-but
e that has a snowball effect to it.”
IN TRANSITION

It was the popular Irishman’s first full season
behind the Philadelphia bench, after taking over

‘ammon, now head coach in Vancouver.

he Flyers made numerous lineup changes
before the season. One big trade sent veterans Tom

Kindrachuk and Ross Lonsberry to the
nguins, allowing Ken Linsmen and
to move into the lineup.

team.”

Jine-was-

The Flyers also had some legitimate stars.
-Bobby—Clarke—between:

The big

Barber and Reggie Leach. Brian Propp was a-rookie
sniper, Veteran Rick MacLeish could score goals.
Jimmy Watson and Bob Dailey anchored the defence
in front of the netminding duo of veteran Phil Myre

and rookie Pete Peeters.

Quinn basically alternated~ goalies, although
certain teams. He
especially brilliant aginst the Boston Bruins, Quinn
said, when the Flyers tied the former record of 28
undefeated games set by the Montreal Canadiens.

Myre played against

people in a time of.transition for the

Stars,

Clarke, but
was

this feat.”

vinn-_reflects on n Flyer record

The streak ended in Minnesota against the
North Stars. Philadelphia had played the previous
night in Buffalo, a physical affair #8 Quinn recalls,
and didn’t adjust to the faster skating of the North

{ Quinn—was named NHL coach of the ‘year,
although the Flyers lost to the New York Islanders
in.six games in the Stanley Cup final.

Quinn credits not only the leadership qualities of
the strength of players like Paul
Holmgren, Andre (Moose) Dupont and Bob jHound)
Kelly in the dressing room,

The streak “was one of the most significant
things that has happened in hockey,” he ‘si

‘The league has never paid much attention to

Patience pays off

By TERRY SCOTT ..
The Canadian Press offence:
b

pursue his defensive role or contribute to an expanding

the veteran an, wanted

Glen Sather, the astute Edmonton Qilers coach,
used the word patience the other day ih describing the
Montreal Canadiens, the NHL's proficient
franchise.

The reference was to the Canadiens on-ice play. But
Sather could as well have been noting the attitude of
general manager Serge Savard

There are a number of reasons for the Canadiens
success this season, but the calin behavior of Shvard
heads the list

He astounded,
supporters by forcing the
Jean Perron last spring.

Perron had guided the team to the second-best
record in the leage standings, but Savard also realized
that if Perron returned a number of veteran’ players
wouldn't.

Savard considered unloading Perron during the
regular season, but resisted the urge to act impulsively.
The severing of ties following the playoffs brought some
indignation, but the Habs early playoff exit cushioned
the impact of Savard’s seeminly capricious deed

MAN IN MIND
Savard had already settled on Perron's successor.
He had admired the leadership of Pat Burns, a former
policeman, behind the bench ofthe Canadiens AHL
affiliate in Sherbrooke

He sensed that Burns,
conciliatory style, could create a
player-coach relationship.

As the first month of the season ended, Savard's
patienée was put to its test. The team
consistently squandered leads and was as taut as
stretched rubber bands at. the Forum even losing
humiliatingly at home to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Centre-Guy Carbonneau, a mainstay, brooded,
seemingly uncertain whether he was expected’ to

Larry Ri
more ice time. Ri
most

Some critics
The general
morning with a

rankled, Canadiens
resignation of head coach

even many

ably, since he

Savard cont

Whe:
become di! tiv
brawny but
the swift,

puzzle.
with his demanding yet And Savard’
more harmonious | group that has
near-perfection

severest that has brought

the exuberance ¢

the fourth line.

was showing his age,
seemed to be skating with the same intensity.

The deal cannot be
resurgence, but Courtnall has fit snugly into the jigsaw

ick Green, another defenceman, was, by

Savard’s own admission, playing abysmally

LOSING ZIP?
told Savard that forward Ryan Walter
and Mats Naslund no longer

manager picked up a newspaper one
front-page headline that wondered

whether Burns would last until Christmas.

Savard stood by his rookie coach
had come under such scrutiny by picking
him in the first place. He was patient, too, in awaiting
the re-emergence of the players who had produced 103
points in the standings a few ‘months earlier.

understand.

ended that the 4-7-1 record in late

October was an aberration, and once the adjustment to
new coaching philosophies was complete the Canadiens
would again become a solid contender
he chance arose to deat a pla

er he felt had

e to team harmony, Savard traded the

nproductive John Kordic to Toronto. for
formerly productive Russ Courtnall.

GOOD DEAL

eredited with the Canadiens

's patience has been rewarded by a

accepted Burns’ team concept to

Pick up a Canadiens scoring summary in a stretch

only three losses since that dismal day

im October, and invariably the contributors are many.
One day, it's Robinson and Bob Gainey, displaying

{ players 10 years younger. The next

day might have Stephane Richer or Shayne Corson, on

Skiers gear up for season

The Red Mountain Racers are
gearing up for a busy season of ski
races after spending the last few
months participating in dry land
training exercises. This week, the
senior racers are taking part in a
series\of NORAM races in Utah

zo

This weekend, a group of RMRs
will be in Fairmont to qualify for the
upcoming B.C. Winter Games in
Nelson. A total of 14 skiers nine
boys and-five girls between the
ages of 13 and 15 will represent the
Kootenay Zone at the qualifying
meet

Castlegar skiers include Neil Jo
ee nes, Jeff Mattell and Michael Van

Vliet. Rossland participants include
Robin Cardew, Winston Giles, Chris
Helmer, Kristoff Steinruck, Kevin
Wert, Jill Bryden, Kathy Dry
Phillipa George, Tara O'Flana;
and Sarah Smith. Susan Buske
Fruitvale and Shana and Maury Lum
of Christina Lake will also uae! to
Fairmont

The annual skateathon sponsored
by the Castlegar Kiwanis Club will
be held on Sat., Jan. 28

ee

Snowphone
365-7614

For current W. Kootenay Ski
Area conditions and
information

Club spokesman Len Darnbrough
said-all-youth groups in the area are
welcome to participate. He said
pledge sheets ¢an be picked up by
groups from Kiwanis members and
the skateathon are

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From Jan. 6-9, Rossland will host
the Vern Anderson Memorial FIS
race. The giant slalom races are on
Friday and Monday with the slalom
races scheduled for Saturday and
Sunday

Approximately 140 racers from
B.C., Alberta and Australia will take
part in the four-day event

This Will be the first major ski
event of the year sponsored by the
RMRs. Gatekeepers are still needed
Anyone interested in working at the
weekend races in Rossland can earn a
half-price day ticket for Red Moun
tain. For further information call
365-3168.

Skateathon planned

split 50-50 by Kiwanis and the youth
groups

The Kiwanis Club pays the expen
ses of the skateathon from its share

of the proceeds.

There are a maximum of 100 laps
an individual can skate and people
may pledge as much as'they want per
lap, usually 2-or 5 cents

The Kiwanis Club uses its share of
the proceeds for. its community
projects, such as the soccer field,
while individual youth groups use the
funds for their own projects. For
example, this year young- people
skating for the Robson Recreation
Commission will see their share go

~gwards improvements to the Rob
‘son pool.

BASEBALL COLLUSION CASE

Union makes demands

NEW YORK (AP) Should Kirk
Gibson have received a five-year
guaranteed contract when he became
a free agent after the 1985 major
league season?

Should infielder Jim Dwyer or
pitcher Danny Darwin, for example,
have gotten multi-year deals?

That's what” the Major League
Baseball Players Association argues
in a brief submitted to arbitrator
Thomas Roberts last Friday as part
of the Collusion I case, covering free
agents between the 1985 and 1986
seasons

The union wants
examine the history
contracts and determine
players would have r
deals in the absence of

“We are asking him to make a
number of findings,” Donald Fehr,
e utive diretor of the union, said.

‘We are asking that he find
there should have been additional
numbers of multi-year* contracts,
trade restrictions, option buyouts,
performance bonuses and that the
players tf compensated for not
having those.”

The union asked Roberts to
determine a total for damages caused
in 1986 by the 1985 collusion

Fehr wouldn't divulge the exact
number, but said it was. slightly
lower than the previous estimate of
between $20 million and $30 million

Roberts to
of multi-y
that many

The union's request is based on a
statistical of free agent
signings, plus a model of player
salaries developed by Glassman.
Oliver Economic Consultants, Ine.

For example, following the 1980
season 11 players eligible for free
agency Sigried contracts of four years
or longer. There were three con
tracts of that length agreed-to after
the 1981 season, seven after 1982 and
three after 1983.

analysis

After the 1984 season, pitchers
Bruce Sutter, Rick Sutcliffe, Rich
Gossage and Ed Whitson and out
fielder Fred Lynn got contracts of

five years or longer and three other
players signed four-year deals. No
free agent has gotten a contract of

longer than three years since .

Keraiff nets
three in CRHL

Kelly Keraiff scored three goals:

and Murray Pearson scored with 59
seconds remaining in the game as
Woodland Park Shell squeaked by Hi
Arrow Arms 10-9 in CRHL_ play
Monday night. Pearson also scored
the game's first goal.

Wes MacPherson and Bruno Tas.
sone also scored a pair and Chief
Mercer, scored once.

Shell assists went to
Randy Carlson, Keraiff,

Mercer,
Tassone,

MacPherson, Pearson, Wayne Kin
akin, Jim Nazaroff and Sten Mattell.

Duane Weir, Bill Nazaroff and Clay
Martini all scored two goals for Hi
Arrow. Rod Zavaduk, John Obetkoff
and Kevin Kirby each contributed
sing!

Martini, Wayne
Nazarof, Byron Smith, Weir,
Quaedvlieg and Obetkof all

assists.

Salekin, Kirby,
Mitch
drew

Soviets coast
to victory

SWIFT CURRE ask. (CP)
The Soviet Union Olympic team
opened up a 6-1 lead afer two periods
and coasted to a 7-2 victory
Canada's national team in exhibition
hockey Tuesday night

Evgeny Popikhin had a goal and
three assists for the Soviets while
Sergei Svetlov scored twice and set
up another goal as the two teams
continued a tour of Saskatchewan
and Manitoba communities.

Andrei Kocalev opened the scoring
for the Soviets at 18:31 of the first
period. In the second, Andrei Basal
gin and Popikhin gave the Soviets a

over

e four-minute mark.

Cana Steve Nemech made it
3-1 at 5:43 but the Soviets, on goals
by Nikolai Borschevsky, Svetlov and
Vladimir Frimin expanded their lead
to 6-1 by the end ofthe second
period.

Svetlov's second goal 15 seconds
into the final period was followed at
6:22 by a goal fom Canada's Darrin
McBride. The Canadiens were out
shot 37-17 in the game before 2,506
fans.

Canada took five of seven minor
penalties, The next game in the
series is tonight in’Regina

3-0 lead befo

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Castlegar News 13

January 4, 1989

Costa Rica a trend

Editor's note: For Canadians thinking of a place in
the sun this winter, here's & look at the countries and
resort areas that tour operators think will be popular.

By FELICITY MUNN
The Canadian Pres:

It’s time for the annual winter-holiday sweep:
stakes and the lineup at the starting gate is the usual
mix of tired old nags, sexy newcomers and time-pro
favorites.

First off, what's hot and what's not
Brazil isn’t

The Dominican Republic and Venezuela are still
going strong, but their appeal may be wearing thin.

Costa Riea is the new kid on thé block and high on
the list of trendy places to go; Colombia is still pretty
chie.

All in all, tour operators say Spanish-speaking
countries-should be the most popular destinations for

Mexico is,

A stronger Canadian dollar may make perennial
favorites like Hawaii bigger sellers than usual in
the winter-holiday sweepstakes

heat-starved Canadians this) winter. That's because
Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela offer
the best deals.

But wherever you go, it won't cost much more than it
did last year. Some prices are one down slightly,
thanks to intense competition among tour operators and
the strength of the Canadian dollar.

The strong dollar may also make perennial
American favorites like Florida and Hawaii bigger
sellers than usual, After all, four years ago it cost $1.40
Cdn to buy an America dollar, but lately that figure
stood af about $1.24

It's a situation that could benefit resorts like South
Padre Island, off the coast of Texas, Carousel Holidays,
which offers air-and-accommodation packages there
beginning at $399 a week (service charges and taxes can
add an extra’$150), says the island has sold better than

ed since they began offering it in 1986.

It’s for someone who wants the American-type
vacation but also Wants to get away from the Florida,
Disney World-condos syndror
Rowers.

Cancun and the resort areas of Jamaica, hit hard by
Hurricane Gilbert in September, could turn put to be
real bargains this winter.

Two months after the storm, the cleanup
complete at both destinations and bookings were slowly
picking up. But demand was still low compared with
other years; if it doesn't improve, hotels and tour
operators may be forced to lower their prices.

BIT OF CHANGE

For an offbeat place, think Costa Riea. The Central
American country is a new destination. for
Canadians. Two-week packages begin at about $750
from Toronto or Montreal .and $1,000 from Vancouver.

Colombia has ridden the rising wave of popularity
of South American destinations in the last few years,
yet it remains rather exotic because its tourist facilities
are limited. Only a few tour operators, and hence only a
few-Canadians,go-there.

Pri for a 10-day, all-inclusive
Cartagena start at $840 out of Toronto.

Venezuela was a bargain, a few winters ago, but
now — well, some tour operators insist it's still a good
deal but others say prices there are rising too swiftly

“Hotel prices keep going up and up and up and the
product hasn't changed at all,” said Bowers. “People
don't mind being gouged to a certain degree but not
when it goes up hundreds of dollars a year.”

This year, prices start at betweem$600 and $700 for
a week on Margarita Island out of Montreal.

IGHT

Opinion is also divided on the Dominican Republic,
with some saying it's as popular as“ever and others
saying demand is easing.

Certainly, if you want a
Dominican has some great bargains. This month, for
instance,. Sunquest is offering 14-day
air-and-hotel packages in Santo Domingo for the same
price — $299 from Toronto

Western Canadians, by the way, can now fly
difectly to the Dominican without buying connector
fares to Toronto. Fiesta is offering two-week packages
from Vancouver, via Edmonton or Calgary, from $999.

Tour operators in the West say Hawaii and Mexico
~ Puerto Vallarta especially, but also Acapulco, Ixtapa
and Manzanillo —ggre still the preferred destinations

As of December,. however, several are offering
Cancun, the resort on the coast of the Yucatan
Peninsula that, in the past, drew more visitors from
Eastern Canada than from the West

Every Canadian tour operator seems to offer Mexico
as a destination. Mexico had to struggle to lure back

" says Carousel's Bill

was

most

vacation in

cheap holiday, the

seven- and

HUATULCO FEATURES 30 KM OF PACIFIC COAST

Editor's note: Mexico is developing a whole new
resort area on its southern Pa

promises to be even bigger and more successful than
Cancun. Here's an early look at Huatulco.

E
The Canadian Press

HUATULCO, MEXICO (CP)
me: Wah-TOOL-ko.

earn-how-to-pronounce-it-now;-so-you-won't
feel folly when Huatulco becomes the hot new
resort ‘in

If, that is, all goes according to plan

So far, things are a bit behind schedule at the
Thassive Bays’ of Huatulco project’ on” Mexico's
southern coast

But Fonatur — the Mexican government agency
that created Cancun, Ixtapa and other successful
resorts out of remote stretches of undeveloped coast

— hasn't messed up so far, and it probably won't on
this_one either.

Only two hotels are open at Huatulco now and
tourists are barely visible. But the area is the most
ambitious of Mexico's master-planned resorts, and
eventually a mind-boggling two million people a year
should be visiting. ‘

Plans call.for completion of the billion-dollar
resort in the year 2018, but developers say Huatuleo
should attract substantial numbers of sun-seekers by
next spring and really take off as a sun destination in

Repeat after

exico.

five years.
ON NINE B.

The project, 500 kilometres south of Mexico
City,-stretches along 30 kilometres of shimmering
Pacific coast, etched with nine bays in, the ¢ropical
south of the state of Oaxaca.

Clusters of hotels and condominiums will go up
in each of the bays, flanked by rolling green hills and
soft white-sand beaches. Average temperature,
year-round, is about 27 C; the dry season runs from
September to May

The logistics are staggering, but Fonatur has
proved to be extremely adept at such projects
Fifteen years ago, Cancun was a fishing village of
about. 100 people; now it's one of the world’s most
successful resorts.

Likewise in the Huatulco area, the 1,000-strong
fishing community of Santa Cruz was remote, poor
and rather primitive until 1982, when the coastal
highway—tinking—it—with—Puerto—Eseondido, 100
kilometres to the west, was completed.

Work began in 1985 on a water supply network,
sewage treatment plants, electric substations and

Mexico prepares
hot new resort

—

NEW DEVELOPMENT . . . Mexico hopes to at-
tract as-many as two million-tourists with the
country's newest resort development at

telephone systems.
compléted in 1987.

As in Cancun, this project is being built in three
phases. The first involves the development of three
of the nine bays Santa Cruz, Tangolunda. and
Chahue.

An international airport was

RUNNING LATE

Originally, three hotels were to open by early
1988 but only one made it on schedule. The
Binniguenda opened in Santa Cruz last year and is
still being used mainly by architects and engineers
working on the project.

Big fide-star hotels are going up on Tangolunda
Bay. The $40-million Club Med Huatulco opened
there in May, and by next Gere a Veramar hotel

The Bahamas are still G popular attraction tor
Canadians looking to escape the winter chill. Long

business after the earthquake three years ago, but since
then it has never looked back

Other winter destinations, meanwhile, seem to just
chug along quietly, never topping the charts but not
sliding in popularity either — the Bahamas,-Barbados,
St. Martin, Aruba, Cuba, and so on

Ron Dawick of Thomson Vs
bookings this fall suggest a movement back to those
traditional holiday spots.

ations says- Thomson's

“Over the past few years people have sought out
new places, but something has happened to seare them
off,” he says. “I there
disappointments.”

guess have been a few

Few operators are offering Brazil this year, mainly
use the air fare is so high that it's impossible to
offer bargain vacations.-But some are looking at Brazil
for next about the only area left for
operators\to expand into a big way is South America,
south of Colombia and Venezuela
IN ONE
Whatever. the destination,
move to more all-inclusives
even liquor
“It's the value, plus you don’t have to think about
the meals or anything — there’s tremendous freedom in
that,” says Ruth Rosenzweig of Paramount Holidays

year, since

tour operators see a

air fare, hotel, meals and

and a Sheraton are to be operating, bringing the
number of available hotel rooms to about 1,200.

Meanwhile, work on villas and condominiums is
beginning on Chahue Bay

As for once-sleepy Santa Cruz, it will eventually
have two publie squares, a marina, shopping centres
and so on. The permanent population is expected to
reach 300,000, with more than 100,000 permanent
jobs generated by the project. Residents will live in

Huatulco which will feature 30 kilometres ot
oceantront along the Pacific Ocean on Mexico s
southern coast.

an urban zone to be built inland from Chahue Bay

| In five years, there should be 4,270 rooms
wailable, or about half of Cancin’s current size; by
the year 2018, Huatulco is expected to have 26,000
rooms.

Everything is being designed to blend in with
both the environment and traditional Mexican
architecture of the region basically low-slung.
thick-walled buildings featuring inner courtyards

ALL IN 20 YEARS

It ’was in the late ‘60s that Mexico first
committed-itself to creating resorts on undeveloped
coastlines. Now tourism is second only té"Mexico's
petroleum industry as a foreign currency earner.
The state of Oaxaca, mountainous and poor, is finally

place to go

stretches of sandy beaches and warm water
provide the lure.

The firm offers, among other all-inclusives, a week at
Mansanillo, on Mexico's Pacific Coast, starting at $549
from Toronto.

Cruises, another form of all-inclusive holiday,
remain popular. There seems to be an ever-widening
range ofitineraries to choose from as operators strive to
keep sengers, particularly repeat—-customers,
interested

Two-centre vacations, usually a week on the beach
plus.a week in a major city, are also coming into vogue.

“People don’t just want to lie on the beach any
more, they want to see the city and the interior too,”
says Norah Suchanek of Fiesta, which offers two-centre
holidays in both Costa Rica and Venezuela.

At the | end of the scale, three.
four-night sin holidays are catching on as well.

A recent phenomenon, tour operators first aimed
them at workaholic business types who were reluctant
to take longer breaks. But now other vacationers are
booking two or three such mini-holidays over several
months to break up the winter

Overall, it looks as if a lot of Canadians will flee
south this winter

“We always like to get the report from the
Farmer's Almanac,” said Ron Harding of Sunquest,
“and the almanac, someone told me, is calling for a
brutal winter here.”

opposite and

getting in on the act and stands to make enormous
revenues from Huatulco.

The company developing Huatulto is called
CTH; its main shareholders, along with Fonatur, are
American Express, the Mexican bank Bancomer and
Club Med

As with the other master-planned resorts,.one of
the key elements will likely be a shrewd,
never-ending advertising campaign.

So fur, print ads have been declaring Paradise
Found above excerpts from South American poets,
such as Chilean Pablo Neruda’s line: “Nothing but
time passing, the blue and white line of the Sea-sand,
the ocean

NEED AIR ROUTES

Meanwhile, other wrinkles need to be ironed
out, chiefly the fact that Aeromexico, the only airline
flying to Huatulco from Mexico City, went bankrupt
earlier this year

Club Med’s charter flights from Mexico City-are
only for its clients. A regional airline makes the
half-hour flight twice a week from the state capital of
Oaxaca, while flights are also available to Puerto
Eseondido-from-Oaxaea_and-Mexieo City

“There is'a big problem with this right now,”
admitted Enrique de Esesarte Pesqueria, a lawyer
working on the for the state's Economic
Development Ministry

But other regional carriers are planning to fly
into Huatuleo from Mexico City, he said, and
eventually there will be direct flights from points
beyond. “In five years,” he added confidently,

there will be flights here from Paris.” :

project

CHAN DRASTIC

Although a dedicated booster of the project, the
Oaxaca native confesses to mixed feelings about the
drastic changes it will bring to the area.

There used to be no road between Santa Cruz
and Tangolunda Bay,” he recalled. “When I was 12
we used to come here and take the boat to
Tangolunda Bay and run around naked.

“[ have very mixed feelings, becaue in a way 1
would like this place to stay as nature made it. But
on the other hand, the Oaxacan people very much
need money and development, and I have a lot of
faith in this project

Fonatur expropriated some 21,000 hectares of
land for the project (although only a quarter of it will
actually be developed), upsetting many local
residents,

But Esesarte Pedfueira noted that they have
been relocated to new houses on a river bank ai one
end of the de and now have a better
standard of living

Asked if it's possible Huatulco could fail, he
‘replies firmly: “No. Impossible. >

“There were people in
Cancun who said we would never be
after three years. But we are.

“This is, the reality, even if they don't like it
They don't like it because Huatulco will be very
tough competition for them.”

lopment

Acapulco and
at this point

some