216 day, January 22, 1992 @ MinorHOCKEYWEEK Names & Numbers Compiled by News Staff Minor Hockey Week runs from Jan. 18 -25. “The concept of a week devoted to minor hockey was born right here in the West Kootenay. The late Charlie McLean of Trail was the man behind the first Minor Hockey Week im 1956. e Including the Castlegar Minor Hockey Association, there are 135 local minor hockey associations in British Columbia. There were about 425,000 minor hockey players in Canada last year. e The B.C. Amateur Hock- ey Association, the govern- ing body for the sport in this province, was estab- lished in 1919. e _ “Less than one per cent of kids in minor hockey make the pro ranks, so concentrate on enjoying the game; I don’t think kids should aspire to be in the NHL. If God has given you the talent or you have worked hard to earn it, then terrific, but let’s keep this great game of ours in ive.” — Vancou- ver Canucks centreman and Burnaby native Ryan Walter. News Staff Ask Castlegar Minor Hock- ey Association president Jim Craig about the future of the minor game here and, to use a baseball metaphor, he’s got all his bases covered. In the short term, said Craig, the challenge for minor hockey here and across B.C. is to find a way to keep the older kids in the game. + “As they get older their in- terests become more varied and I guess what were saying here is we'd sort of like to maintain that interest into the older ranks, the 15, 16-year- old kids,” Craig said. And while minor hockey wrestles with the issue, junior hockey is increasingly becom- ing a thorn in its side. “What’s happening is that there’s such competition for those boys to play Junior B and Junior A level hockey, the junior ranks sort of cream the minor hockey ranks and thin them out quite a bit.” Castlegar is a prime exam- ple in that the minor associa- tion didn’t have enough play- ers to field a midget team this season. “I don’t know if it’s a prob- lem,” Craig said. “I guess if these kids are good enough to go on then they should proba- ‘1 bly be allowed to, but it’s a i problem for the kids left be- Ryan Walter Castlegar was part of another minor hockey first last weekend as one of the younger divisions. News photo by Ed Mills Registration in the Castlegar Minor Hockey Association was up about 50 kids from last year, with most of the increase coming in hind because they don’t have anyone to play with.” The long term is a simpler proposition for Craig and the FRIDAY, JAN. 24 PIONEER ARENA CASTLEGAR PIONEER ARENA Cc 3:30-4:30 p.m. 4:45-5:45 p.m. 6-7 p.m....... 7:15-8:15 p.m. .... COMMUNITY COMPLEX ARENA SPOKANE 9:30-10:30 .. ss _ 1030-10:45 a.m. OPENING CEREMONY 11:00-12:00 a.m. Sr. Nov. 1 12:15-1:15 p.m. . 1:30-2:30 p.m. 2:45-3:45 P.M. ......02++00 It’s a great day for hockey 4:00-5:00 p.m. ........+. 5:15-6:15 p.m. ry 6:30-8:00 p.m oats SUNDAY, JAN. 26 PIONEER ARENA TIME CASTLEGAR 8-9 a.m. .........---- ane 9:15 -10:15 am 11:30-12:30 a.m. 12:30-1:30 p.m. . 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Pee Wee 2 COMMUNITY COMPLEX TIME CASTLEGAR 7:30-8:30 a.m. .......5.+ Sr. Nov. 2 8:45-9:45 a.m. F 10:00-11:00 a.m 12:30-1:30 p.m. 1:45-2:45 p.m. 3:00-4:00 p.m. .....0.+++ SPOKANE Sr. Nov. 3 Atom 5 Pee Wee 1 Atom 2 Jr. Nov. 2 Sr. Nov. 1 OUT OF TOWN GAMES NELSON 40:30 a.m.-Noon..Spok. Pee Wee 1 vs. Nel President has bases covered Jim Craig people involved in minor hock- ey. “The long term goal I think is to try and make the game fun for the kids.” And doing that might be the answer to the short term issue as well. “If we can do that, and take the pressure off for as long as possible, then I think those kids will be there in enough numbersto enjoy the game when they’re older.” Relieving pressure is a big part of the process, and minor hockey is starting to focus i energies in that direction: Craig said. “I think a lot of times the pressure on the kids in minor hockey, especially in the older ranks, is so intense that they just say ‘to heck with it, I don't need that’ and they just go somewhere where the pres- sure isn’t as great.” Jamborees work well News Staff Minor hockey jamborees, — where players are mixed on teams with others from differ- ent communities for a tourna- ment where sportsmanship is clearly the focus — have been and integral part of Minor Hockey Week in B.C. for ears. But do the jamborees do what they’re supposed to do? You bet, said Marge Ray, who organized the WKMHA Peewee Jamboree in Castle- gar last weekend. “It certainly makes them (the players) think about the 12:15-1:45 p.m. ...Spok. Pee Wee3 vs. Nelson FRUITVALE * 9:15-10:15 a.m. ...Spok. PeeWee 4 vs_ Fruitvale 10:30-11:20 a.m. ....Spok. Atom 3 vs. Fruitvale q of taking penal- ties and in turn enforces team wy and sportsmanship,” Ray said. “The concept is really good, for the kids and parents too.” “mr Wednesda: y 22, 1992 ee Balance for Shell in CRHL @ Everyone gets on score sheet in Shell’s victory over Computers News Staff There was a moment of perfect balance in the Castle- gar Recreational Hockey League Monday night at the Community Complex. From goaltender Tim Hor- coff’s one assist, to Benton Hadley’s six points, all 10 Woodland Park Shell players got at least a point in a 10-7 win over Banjo’s Pub. Hadley led the way with four goals, including a natu- ral hat trick in the first peri- od, and two assists, while Kelly Keraiff had three goals and one assist. , Bruno Tassone set up all o! Hadley’s goals, while Jim Nazaroff also had four assists for Shell. 4 Other scorers for Shell in- cluded Dave Rugg with two goals, Dan Friedal with a goal and two assists, Chris Brodman with two. assists and Kevin Gay and Wayne Batchelor with an assist each. Banjo’s displayed some scoring balance of its own with eight of its 12 players getting a point or more on the night. : Clay Martini had a goal and three assists to lead Ban- jo’s, while Adrian Markin, Frank Costa, Aaron Poznikoff and Larry Price had a goal and two assists each. Wayne Zino and Ian Stew- art also scored for Banjo’s, which trailed 5-2 after the first period and 7-4 after two. The win moved Shell with- in two points of first place in the five-team league with 24 CASTLEGAR RECREATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Stats to Jan. 20, 92 WLeETP Cast. Sports Centre 12 10 1 26 Cast. Pressure Wash 12 121 25 Banjo’s Pub 12 13 125 Koot. Computers 10 10 424 Wood. Park Shell 11.12 224 SCORING LEADERS G A Pts 60 45105 37 4178 27 4875 37 3976 29 4271 33 3467 24 3761 24.3761 18 4159 24 3357 Gord Walker, C.P.W. Larry Price, Banjos Benton Hadley, Shell Dave Terhune, Comp. Clay Martini, Banjos Niki Hyson, Sports Chief Mercer, Comp. Wayne Saliken, Banjos Kelly Keraiff, Shell Tom Trubetskoff, C.P.W. points, while Banjo’s remains tied for third with Castlegar Pressure Wash ‘with 25 points. In the other CRHL game over the week, Pressure Wash’s Don Soroke scored with one second left in the game Thursday to give his club a 6-6 tie with Kootenay Computers. Soroke’s goals, his second of the game, came when he converted feeds from. Doug Knowler and Gord Walker. The assist was Walker’s fifth of the game and gave the league scoring leader 45 on the season, to go along with 60 goals. -Knowler scored twice for Pressure Wash, which led 2-1 after the first period, while George Roberts also had a pair of goals. Gary Sauer had-two goals and an assist to lead Com- puters, while Bob Larsh and Jeff Townsend had a goal and three assists each. Dave Terhune and Chief Mercer also scored for Com- puters, which is tied with Shell. ; SchoolSPORTS PUBLIC NOTICE CASTLEGAR SLO-PITCH ANNUAL GENERAL , MEETING Tuesday, January 28 7 p.m. Castlegar Community Complex IF NOT ENOUGH INTEREST IS SHOWN, THE LEAGUE WILL CEASE TO EXIST IN 1992. News Staff BOYS BASKETBALL For the second straight weekend, West Kootenay ri- vals chucked a wrench into the works of the senior and junior boys basketball teams. Grand Forks did it to the se- nior boys at a tournament in Kelowna and L. V. Rogers of Nelson did it to the junior boys in the final of the Hi Arrow Classic at SHSS Saturday. Three straight free throws with four seconds left in the game gave Grand Forks an 80- 79 win over the senior Rock- ers and relegated John Ritchie’s squad to fourth place in the eight-team tourney. —— The weekend before, Grand Forks beat the senior boys by four in the final of a tourna- ment in Princeton. While Ritchie said the loss was tough, but he wasn’t dis- pleased with his team’s effort in the tourney. And neither is he worried about the likelihood of a meet- ing between the two clubs to decide which will go to the AA BINGO provincial championship. “We have a few things to pull out of our bag of tricks be- fore the end of the year,” Ritchie said. “Never show all your artillery until the final battle. Marcel Dusseault had 19 points to lead SHSS in the loss to Grand Forks, while Ryan Vatkin had 13 and was named 2 y Marcel Dusseault player of the game. Dusseault. again led the way.for SHSS with 22 points in their first-game win over Immaculatta of Kelowna. The Rockers lost their final game of the tourney 76-74 toa AAA school from Okanagan Mission. Vatkin had 20 points for SHSS in that game, while Bob Baulne and Dan Kooznetsoff had 18 each. The senior boys and girls play in a tournament at J.L. Crowe in Trail this weekend. Meanwhile, the “junior Rockers, who lost by 33 points to LVR in a tournament two weekends ago, cut the point spread a little last weekend but still lost by a margin of 67- 41 in the final of the Classic. Todd Bondaroff led SHSS with 16 points in the loss, while Simon Laurie had nine. Bondaroff again led SHSS with 18 points in a 63-42 first- game win over the Laurie Tigers of Cranbrook. Laurie had 16 points for SHSS in their 51-47’semifinal win over Grand Forks, while Robert Machado, who was named a tournament all-star, had 12. : The junior boys and Colette Pilloud’s junior girls both play J. L. Crowe today at SHSS. SAT., JAN. 25TH Castlegar Complex 6°": Early Bird 7°"-Reg. ring us your old, your tired, [are ee thes Bring your ideas and let us desi; Remarkable jewellery at remar. Glicter JEWELLERS your huddled masses of unused jewellery. “— as, Let us create an exciting and affordable custom design for 2 what you want! ly low prices. 642 Baker Street, Nelson, B.C. 352-6055