SPOR TS SS B2 Castlégar News September 18, 1985 = 2 : SPORTS Seplember:l8, 1985 Castle News Sa FLAG FOOTBALL ][ wantep = : Geen | Canucks want toughness chi sey || een ae Cotton od ¢ | a | C) fe | S n oO T ed sy = Regular A Sy R = To KERR’ i and goaltender Richard Brodeur to form the backbone of _ on offence and the ability & to compensate for mistakes on : eh : 3 : Classes . Anyone interested in — th : . > playing Flag Football ags Canucks are looking for a'ru a tenant in amcor sm: She Dieses ae ota i a eae Sandlak, a right winger fi By ALAN ADAMS £ . who now coaches Pittsburgh Penguins. Nory Laderoute, who lectures at Concordia Commence CALL BOB AT of Laurie Boschman or Dave Hunter; new hedd coach 7 Lene No, draft pick Jim Sandloke, & right sritger: ‘rom MONTREAL (CP). Two of hid predecessors have Lemaire, who says he never wanted to coach the University, said Perrson will have to be honest: with Sept. 30 j 365-2653 Castlegar News rem -Watl of the National: Hockey “Le ter cone Be ee COMEBACKS NEEDED London Knights of the Ontario Hockey ague, quit because of the stress and others have said the job is _ Canadiens, left because he could not relax and was tired _ himself, his players and his employers. ept. tS eae 197 Columbia Ave. eee al Hockey League team said —_ “I'm expecting them to come back and play like they _ impressed during an afternoon scrimmage sere parsing one of the toughest in professional sport, but Jean Perron _of lying in bed after a loss second guessing his strategy. Perron has already:made one mistake by focussing At 6:30 p.m. ‘ - _ : 'y- did before last season,” -Watt said. “Those three in his size to advantage on the boards. Sandlak~ stands is relaxed as he discusses his new duties as coach of attention on himself by saying this year’s team is an at Twin Rivers School Coaching the Habs has taken a:toll'on others who tried. Bernard (Boom-Boom) Geoffrion, former star forward with the Canadiens, succumbed to the pressure after three months on the job in 1979. six-foot-threesand weighs 205 pounds. ° Two players — right winger Ron, Delorme and defenceman Glen’ Cochraino — are coming back slowly from knee surgery. Cochrane will skate only once each day while Delorme is confined to off-ice training. “ Left-winger Taylor Hall, who- underwent - knee surgery early last season, has fully recovered. Rookie goalkeeper Shawn Kilroy will miss training camp after undergoing surgery two weeks ago for a hernia condition. ——The-Canucks—will-work— out twice daily— through Friday and begins its exhil Saturday in Victoria agairist Los Angeles Kings. * Sunday the Canucks will play Los Angeles in Duncan on Vancouver Island and Monday night Vancouver meets the Canadian Olympic team at the PNE Agrodome in Vancouver. - Watt watched 32 rookies skate. through two practices and a scrimmage and today the veterans joined - training camp sessions while Watt searches for strength down the middle. Montreal Canadiens. “I will find times tough and I have some worries,” Perron acknowledges of his’ work with the National Hockey League team that has won an unprecedented 21 Stanley Cups. “But it is a matter of knowing your weaknesses and improving on them. My ability to cope with things will determine my success,” he said. Perron took over the reigns of the Canadiens two __months ago when Jacques Lemaire stepped down. With a winning history and fans and media who find losing difficult to accept, the Habs are under constant scrutiny. That scrutiny has increased in recent years through the development of the rivalry between the Canadiens and Quebec Nordiques. Perron says his supporting cast of Lemaire, now particular are capable of regaining their form after off ¢ years.” improvement oyer. last year, says Laderoute. e “How can he say something like that when the team hasn't been tested?" asked Laderoute. “He has put himself out on a limb with & saw ity Chis*hand.” * CAN'T LISTEN Perron can't afford to listen to his critics, unless they pay his wages, said Laderoute, who coached the Canadian Forces pentathalon-team for three years. “When you have to perform, you can’t allow yourself to be affected by stresses from outside your working 3. ____ Minor Hockey Registration Arena Complex w Whiidvater WAETEWATTA 0 SOGHTY FO.BC 10 MISON BC VL? The rookies were joined by 26 veterans today, including defenceman Doug Halward and right winger Cam Neely, who want new contracts. Halward has asked to be traded and Neely has indicated he will play out his - option. 1985-86 SEASON PASS PRICES Classes and Thursday from 6:: {ill 8 p.m. et Twin Rivers School. For more information call. 365-3403 (Evenings) Berry was fired twice while under constant sniping from the Montreal media. Claude Ruel, now in the Canadiens’ front office, resigned while under similar pressure a few years earlier. Berry rates the pressures of coaching the Habs at “9.9 on a scale of 10.” “It would get me every time we lost,” said Berry. “The pressure I felt the most was to be successful. “We need a Snarly centre, a mean, nasty type of player,” said Watt. “Lots of teams in our division have that type of player. Watt confirmed that veteran right winger Stan Smyl will continue as team captain because player who leads by putting out-on-the ice, from the bench.” The Canuck coaching staff — Jack Mcllhargey is the only assistant — is looking primarily for skating speed in training camp. “If there's on: “We need someone in pre middle who plays with a lot of intensity,..a player other teams don't like to play against.” Watt said Boschman of Winnipeg Jets. and Hunter of. Quebec Nordiques are good examples of the type of player the Canucks need to compliment centre Thomas Gradin and Patrik Sundstrom, the Swedish smoothies. The new coach, who took over from Harry Neale during the offseason, said he expects Gradin, Sundstrom “Ist Adult... .. said Lai “A lot of people fool themselves. The guy who holds it in won't last. There has to be a release point when thé tension builds and either you release it in public or private.” The last coach to win a Stanley Cup with-the “The pressure was there from the fans and the press. There comes a time when you don't read the papers, watch television, listen to the radio or go out for dinner,” ingredient we'd like to build on, it's Senior Citizen Children 7. ond student! Dor ber 1, 1983. Please bring speed,” Watt said. ‘Speed gives you a great dimension ss THERE'S FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY AT WHITEWATER! Only a 40 minute drive from Castlegar Seasons passes available at Mallard’s Ski & Sportin Castlegar Sports Calendar Castlegar a THURSDAY Expos, 7 p.m., channel 9. SATURDAY H—MIXED TO Inland Park, Kinsmen Park. Kinnaird Pork. Monkees.vs. BASEBALL—MAJOR LEAGUE: Pittsburgh Pirates “vs. Montreal Games begin 8 a.m. BASEBALL—MAJOR LEAGUES: Regional coverage of New York Orioles or Montreal Expos vs. St. LOurs Cardinals, 10 a.m., channel 6; Expos vs. Cardinals, 3'p.m. FOOTBALL—CFL: Calgary Stampeders” vs. 6:30 p.m., channel 13. venen Edmonton Eskimos, BIKES FOR ALL Sales — Service Repairs MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Relief pitcher Steve Howe, who missed Minnesota Twins’ weekend series in Cleveland because of a recur- rence of his cocaine addiction problems, requested and was club said Tuesday. In a prepared statement, the team said: “After meet- ing with . . . Twin officials this morning, Steve Howe requested and was granted his unconditional release from the Minnesota Twins. his unconditional _re-. suspended for the 1984 sea- son by former commissiéner Bowie Kuhn for violation of baseball's drug policies. He was released by the Dodgers on July 3 after failing. to report for a game -for.the.fifth time. since.1983._.! The Twins signed him Aug. Joly gets second shot OTTAWA (CP) — Few people get even one real shot at super success, but Yvan Joly is getting his second in seven years. The 25-year-old Hawkes- ury, Ont., native is among ” 64 hopefuls at the New York Islanders National Hockey League tryout camp — which ned Monday at Candiac Hockey League, he was call- ed up by the Canadiens to help them in the Stanley Cup playoffs. But that was as good as it got for the 18-year-old who was to have. another brief look from Hartford Whalers. After he went to Europe to try in vain for spots on Italian and Swiss teams that weren't hockey in an obscure Laur- entian senior league for St- Jerome, Que., Mike Scott of Ottawa decided: “What, a waste of talent. That guy should be in the National Hockey League.” A fitness buff and commo- dore fo the Rideau Canoe Club with access to both training facilities and--the™ fitness. And Bonnie Sample, former junior development director for the Canadian Canoeing Association, de- vised a training . program including running, cycling, swimming and weight train- ing. In six months, he has pared 25 pounds of his 200 pounds of pudge and regained his ope: “Park in’ Hicksville, N.Y. — because a couple of people, 11. Howe, 27, d last Thursday after appearing on ABC-TV’s Nightline show to discuss drug problems in sports. He asked team off- icials for permission to report late in Friday's doubleheader against the Indians due to an A Public ico Tu-Dor Sports (Casti. “Steve will devote _ his di full ion to recovery from his DONTBE ~ LATE, GET Eee to Qualified Buyers on Selected New Car and Truck Lines “Only 5 Days Left To Qualify” WE STILL HAVE 67 personal problems.” Howe, 1980 National Lea- gue rookie of the year with Los Angeles Dodgers, was CINCINNATI (AP) — Boxer Aaron Pryor denies he has a drug problem and says reports about it from Miami are untrue. He says he also illness in his wife’s family. But family members repor- ted Howe never showed up and he missed doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday anda single game Sunday. | hopes to resume his boxing career. “I'm the world's champion undefeated in 36 fights,” Pryor said in an interview in his snative city. Tuesday. “I fe ppears— resume his boxing career, said his manager, Buddy LaRosa. Pryor is 36-0 as a professional with 32 knock- outs and holds the junior welterweight title of the coach Brian Kilrea, believe.in_ him. Joly was one of the hottest prospects to graduate from Kilrea’s junior Ottawa 67s of the Ontario Junior Hockey League and urned pro at 17 interested in an overweight, out-of-condition former jun- ior hotshot who tended to pout when things didn't go his ‘way. Then, after reading a newspaper story last winter about Joly playing senior expertise to use them, Scott persuaded Joly to give it one more shot. Scott suggested a program to improve Joly’s overall junior legs. He spent part of last month at a power skating school in nearby Hawkesbury that conditions major junior hockey players. Mid-Week Wrap-up The high point of his career came in his second year as a professional when, after scor- ing 43 goals with Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the American Boxer says reports of drug problem untrue — a car and other property stolen. Police discounted the abduction, but said they had observed Pryor visiting a drug house. LaRosa and others publicly expressed him weighing 110 pounds and looking anorexic were ex- aggerated,” LaRosa said Tuesday. LaRosa, who said he hadn't seen Pryor for about two Gradin feeling good VANCOUVER (CP) — Although centre Thomas Gradin_ is committed—to reoach Sweden's national team, he hopes to play for Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League for another five years. _ Gradin said Tuesday his commitment to his coun- try’s ice hockey federation has-been misunderstood in North America. “They-want-me-to coach when my career is over and they are hoping I won't get ‘another contract and that will be two years,” Gradin, 29, said as the Canucks opened their NEW 1985 CARS & TRUCKS TO CLEAR & MAKE ROOM FOR OUR ’86s! 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