Castlégar News January 7,.1987

Canucks place last

scoring punch, Coach Tom Watt refused to talk about a

QUEBEC (CP) — Mid-season tends to. bring an unfortunate sense of nostalgia to the Vancouver Canucks,

The Canucks reached the halfway point in their NHL schedule by losing 3-2 to the Quebec Nordiques on Tuesday night, leaving them in last place in the Smythe Division with just 11 victories and 26 points. Last year at the same point Vancouver had won 13 games before going on to finish second-to-last in their division. .

What's worse, the team now is in a slump — even by Canuck standards. It has won three of its last 10 games.

“It's getting very frustrating for everyone,” goaltender Richard Brodeur said. “We gave our best shot tonight but now we're looking around wondering whether we're good enough to win any games. We play good, we play hard but we're alway scoming up short.”

Paul Gillis’s goal at 12:44 of the third period broke a 2-2 tie and gave Quebec the triumph. Brent Ashton and Mike Eagles also scored for the Nordiques.

Dan Hodgson and Moe Lemay replied for Vancouver.

Part of the Canucks’ woes are due to the team’s lack of

By GORD het

Castlegar cross-country ski racers won five gold, six sil- ver, and seven bronze medals at a race held in Rossland on the weekend.

Eighteen out of 24 Castle- gar skiers competing won medals.

Gold medals were awarded to Melanie Gibson, Darren Tamelin, Jennifer Gibson, Pauline Orr and Robert Eh- man.

Silvers-went to Heather Sheppard, Averil Sheppard, Carrie Lynn Brown, Kari Hartman, Mark Dascher, and

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Third place bronzes were won by Gareth Orr, Rolf Hartman, Jill Brady, Greg Ehman, Peter Bullock, Chris Bullock and Miles Ringheini.

Other Castlegar skiers to place were Andrew Port, fifth; Alex Hartman, sixth; Kieran Finney, fourth; Bert Port, fourth; and Ben Thor- Larsen, fifth.

The skiers race at dis- tances from one to 15 kil- ometres in length depending upon age. Despite the heavy snowfall on Friday and Sat- urday, the course was in ex-

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slump involving his top Barry Pederson and Tony Tanti, however.

While Vancouver couldn't bury their puck, they did help Quebee lay a three-game losing streak to rest.

Still, the Nordiques do not appear to be fullrout of the woods yet,

‘They have won three of their last 10 games, and are two games below the .500 level with a 17-196 won-lost-tied record. After the same number -of games last season, the Nordiques were 25-16-2, and finished first in the Adams Division. ‘

On Monday, the Nordiques made a move to shore up their roster, obtaining Bill Derlago from the Winnipeg Jets for a fourth-round draft choice in 1989,

Quebec is Dale Hunter, who broke his leg in a game against the Montreal Canadiens on Nov. 25 and is still listed as “out indefinitely.”

In first game since

the deal, Derlago played a

regular shift and also appeared on the power-play.

cellent shape. With the tem- perature hovering near the zero degree mark and bright sunshine at times, racing conditions were ideal.

Hosted by the Blackjack Club of Rossland, the race was the first in a series of

Skiers win five gold

three Kootenay Cup events to be held in the ‘coming weeks. The Castlegar Nordic Ski Touring Club hosts the next race Jan. 11 at the Castlegar Golf Course. This race will also serve as the Winter Games trials. Nelson hosts the Feb. 15 race.

Nakusp holds ladies curling

Two teams represented the Castlegar Ladies Curling Club at the West Kootenay playdowns held in Nakusp Jan. 2-4, The Carol Allen and the Diony McArthur teams each won one and lost two games. The Judy Gran team from Nakusp won the A side of the double-knockout draw. Gerry Brown's team from Trail won the B side and went on to defeat the Gran

Rebels thumped __

rink in the play-off game. The Brown team advanced to the East-West Kootenay _ play downs to be held in Trail Jan. 9, 10, 11.

Teams skipped by Marg Van Yzerloo are leading in two leagues. The team has a 7-1 record for 15 points.

They are followed by the Stasila team with 12 points and the Johnstone team with 11 points.

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Castlegar Rebels got thumped by the Columbia Valley Rockies 7-3 in Koot. enay International Junior Hockey League action Sat: urday night at the Commun. ity Complex.

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Andrew Zibin picked up two goals for the Rebels while Walter Sheloff man. aged a single.

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Despite the loss, the Reb els still lead the KIJHL with 46 points in 29 games. Ross- land, the Rebels’ closest competitor in the western division, is in second place with 26 points.

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reach — allowed itself to be sucker-punched by the Soviet team, with the result that both squads were ejected from the world championship and Canadian hopes for any medal vanished.

The Soviets, facing a humiliating sixth-place finish, had nothing to lose — and everything to gain because you can bet your last kopek, tovarich, they're going to blame Canada for the whole thing.

The Canadian attitude has traditionally been that if you can’t beat ‘em in the alley, you can't beat “em on the ice, The European attitude is that — while they play fast, good hockey — if you can't beat ‘em out of it, cheat ‘em out of it. ,

In this instance, a fight erupted in the Canada-Russia game in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviets sent the entire team out to do battle. Canada, of course, funnelled its warriors into the fray.

It was a macho thing to do, retaliating that way. But suppose we hadn't?

It must be remembered Canadian teams have a bad reputation in Europe.

It was a reputation not entirely undeserved in those days and the Swedes, along with other clubs, took advantage of it. .

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For instance, play would whirl from the: Canadian end of the ice and the two (in those days) officials would follow the play. A Swede would hang back, then execute a one-anti-a-half gainer and dive screaming to the ice,

‘eThe’ officials would swing back and assess a slashing penalty against the Canadian nearest the theatries. This was as guilt by-proximity.

meee are for a time, however, when Dave Bauer, a Roman Catholic priest, took over as coach of the Canadian national team. Father Dave one sportsman- ship as strenuously as he coached hockey.

ne Ie thsee A in Stockholm in 1964 the. Swedes were playing Canada in the Olympic Games. A Swedish player cross-checked a Canadian so hard he broke his stick. He flung the broken end at the Canadian bench, where it hit Father Bauer in the face for several stitches,

The officials were aghast, for this was not-only a coach but a priest. The Canadians were mad, and made as ifto bound over the boards and clean whichever Swedish clocks might fall within reach.

But the bleeding Father Bauer restrained his crew, uttering “no, no — they know not what they do, it was an accident,” or words to that effect.

The Swedes were so overcome they blew the game.

The Canadians didn’t win that year but then, they hadn't been expected to. But Canada did get a medal.

It was a gold — a unique honor in that it went to Father Dave for exemplary leadership “under great strain.”

MONTREAL (CP) — The president of the International Ice Hockey Federation blames politics for Sunday's bench- clearing braw! between Canada and the Soviets at the world junior hockey championships.

Gunther Sabetzki said in a telephone interview from West Germany on Tuesday it appears the Soviets were first off the bench to join in the brawl, which lasted 20 minutes and ended with both teams being disqualified from the tournament, —~

“It looks like it was political,” Sabetzki replied when asked why the Soviets might have left their bench first, “But the will by each team to hurt the other is appalling.”

Sabetzki from Di idorf, said the fact it

Czechoslovakia, was probably a factor in disqualifying the team.

Canadian and U.S, players dropped their gloves during the warmup to their game last Thursday, and the coaches had to go on the ice to restore order,

“It wasn't discussed, but Iam sure it (the Canada-U,8. brawl) was in the back of their minds,” Sabetzki said of the ion by the federation’s that led to Sunday’s double disqualification. »

RAPS REFEREE Sabetzki also placed some blame on referee Hans Ronning of‘Norway, who left the ice in the middle of the

was Canada’s second brawl at the in Piestany,

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“He had the game in hand in the first period, but after was soft,” said Sabetzki. When the benches emptied, Canada had a 4-2 lead and could have clinched the gold medal by winning by five goals. After the brawl, federation officials huddled for 30 minutes before ejecting both teams from the tournament. ‘The federation, governing body for international ice hockey, will consider furthet penalties against both teams. - Canada had a 4-1-1 won-lost-tied. record in. the tournament. The Soviets were out of the medals with a 2-3-1 ) record, » Both teams had their tournament records wiped out. ‘That left Canada without a medal although the team had gone into Sunday's game assured of at least a bronze. Finland, which beat Czechoslovakia 5-3 earlier Sunday, ‘claimed the gold, which it would still have won had Canada defeated the Soviets by fewer than five goals, Czechoslova- kia took the silver and Sweden the brorize.

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Because of the polities of international hockey, Ronning was the only tournament referee perceived as neutral for a Canada-Soviet game, said Sabetzki. i

“An Arierican is the United States, and the United States is-Canada,” to the Europeans, said the federation president. ,

“A Russian (referee) was not possible. A Czech was not possible. A Swede was not possible.

The Swedes were in the race for a medal.

Sabetzki said Norway “isn't East Bloc and it isn't American bloc.”

Murray Costello, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, agreed in an interview Tuesday that, because of politics, Ronning was the only referee available.

“But at the same time, you get a referee from an emerging hockey country who has never seen competition that intense, let alone (tried to) referee it.

“It was a weak decision to use him.”

Hextall has first shutout

By The Canadian Press Philadelphia goaltender Ron Hextall, having

While Hextall stopped all 16 shots he faced, New Jersey Itender Craig Billi was beaten by some unlikely

ly shaken off a flu bug, took care of the defence and a trio of unlikely goalscorers provided most of the offence as the Flyers blanked the New Jersey Devils 4-0 Tuesday night.

The win, the first shutout of Hextall's National Hockey League career, was the second straight for the Flyers after four straight defeats. The losing string coincided with the rookie’s bout with the flu.

Hextall had given up an average of 3.25 goals per game in his last six outings, slightly above his season average of 2.77.

Belczyk places 54th in Laax

By CasNews Staff

{ and The Canadian Press Castlegar's Felix Belcayk

placed 54th in a World Cup

downhill race on Sunday. in Laax, Switzerland with a time of 1:58:28. Rossland’s Don Stevens fared slightly better by finishing 47th with a time of 1:58:17.

Royals in first

KIMBERLEY (CP) — The Cranbrook Royals climbed back into first place in the Western International Hoc key League Tuesday night by beating the Kimberley Dyna. miters 3-1.

Troy Farkvam got the winner at 4:57 of the third period and Kurt Swanson ‘added an insurance goal about six minutes later.

Franz Heinzer of Switzer land won the race while Can. ada’s Brian Stemmie finished in the top 15.

Rob Boyd of placed 38th.

Whistler

By PAUL PHIPPS The Castlegar Bantam Rep Hockey team travelled to

snipers.

Defenceman Brad Marsh and left winger Daryl Stanley each scored their first goal of the season and right winger

Peter Zezel, no stranger to goalscoring, also beat Billington to collect his 18th goal of the year.

Stanley's goal was his second in 83 regular-season NHL games. Marsh now has 13 goals in 664 games and Brown 15 in 192.

Zezel, meanwhile, is chugging along with 50 goals in 183 games.

The Flyers got a penalty shot with 6:19 to go in the second period after New Jersey defenceman Ken Daneyko threw his stick in an attempt to disrupt Murray Craven's breakaway. Rick Tocchet missed the penalty attempt.

MAPLE LEAFS 3 RED WINGS 1

Allan Bester stopped 22 shots and Russ Courtnall scored two third-period goals to lift visiting Toronto past Detroit and move the Maple Leafs into a tie with the Red Wings for first place in the Norris Division.

The Red wings dropped to 16-16-7 after having their unbeaten string snapped’ at six'games. The’ Maple Leafs

improved their record to'17-17-5, giving them the 39 points

needed to tie Detroit. NORDIQUES 3 CANUCKS 2

Paul Gillis scored on a slap shot at 12:44 of the third period to power the Nordiques past the visiting Canucks.

Brent Ashton and Mike Eagles also scored for the Nordiques while Dan Hodgson and Moe Leamy replied for Vancouver.

ISLANDERS 5 NORTH STARS 3

In Uniondale, N.Y., Mike Bossy scored two goals and assisted on two others as the New York Islanders downed Minnesota and snapped a five-game winless streak.

Castlegar takes second

Castlegar first met the Wenatchee Bantams and

Castlegar large, fast team from Alaska.

then faced a

Peter Thrasher was credited with the first Royals goal.

Spokane during the Christ: mast holidays to take part in a six-team international tour-

Rob Peacosh scored the only goal on Cranbrook goalie Mare Taylor who made 36 saves. Leo Karchie stopped 34 shots for the Dynamiters.

The Royals now have 24 points, one ahead of second place Elk Valley Blazers.

nament.

Castlegar won their first four games to qualify for the finals. They then lost their last game to Spokane.

Castlegar was presented with the second place trophy and the trophy for the Most

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Spor ike team. As well, Taylor Harding, a Castlegar forward, was awarded the Most Valuable Player Award for the tournament.

dominated their opposition In a

and won by a score of 13 to 1. Taylor Harding scored six goals and picked up three as sists. Steve Junker scored three goals and picked up one assist. Corey Ross, Jarrod Isfeld and Roger Carlson also scored for Castlegar. Jason Ferris, Rick Crowe, Daryl Furey, Clint Swanson, Loni Schmidt and David Joseph son added assists.

Castlegar then beat Port land 7-8. Harding again led the scoring with four goals and one assist.

hard-skating game Castlegar won 4-1. Scoring for Castlegar were Harding, Furey, Schmidt and Crowe. Assists were by Carlson (3), Harding (2), and Junker. Castlegar had to beat Salt Lake City to reach the finals. The two teams played a fast, hard-hitting game which ended with Castlegar on top 5-2. Once again Harding dominated the scoring with three goals. Vecchio and Is- feld also scored for Castle- gar’s lone goal was scored by

Haight 43rd in Super G

By CasNews Staff

and The Canadian Press

Diaha Haight of Fruitvale placed 43rd with a time of 1:14:27 in the women’s World. Cup super-giant slalom in Saalback, Austria Tuesday. Tuesday.

Switzerland's Maria Walli-. |

ser won her second ‘World Cup super-giant slalom ahead of teammate Brigitte Oertli, continuing the Swiss domin- ance of this season's Alpine skiing competition.

Walliser’s victory narrow- ed the gap between her and women’s World Cup overall leader Vreni Schneider of Switzerland to seven points. Schneider, who triumphed, in a giant slalom in Saalbach on Monday, heads the standings with 157 points and Walliser had 150.

In winning, Walliser also established herself as a co- favorite for the World Cup

DIANA HAIGHT . .. 4,56 seconds off

title and as a top contender in the world Alpine champion- ships, beginning in Crans Montana, Switzerland, in about two weeks.

Walliser, 23, covered the track ‘with 40 gates and a vertical drop-of 420 metres in one-minute, 9.71 seconds.

Oertli, starting 22nd, over- came deteriorating weather conditions with-driving snow and. strong winds to finish second in 1:10.66, Third was Yugoslav. Mateja Svet in 1:10.75, followed by Cather- ine Quittet of France, who clocked 1:11.01.

Ninety-two of 100 starters completed the race despite the adverse weather con- ditions after ‘the first group of 15 i

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changed. The: late starters were at a disadvantage.”

In the overall World Cup standings, Swiss women rank 1-2-3-4, with Oertli third with 113 points and veteran Erika Hess in fourth position with 108 points.

Tamara McKinney of the United States, who finished in a tie with Graham for 20th place, is fifth with 93.

Walliser’s two Super G wins gave her a perfect 50 points in the specialty's Cup

di ahead of France's

LEADS CANADIANS

Laurie Graham of Ingle- wood, Ont. finished 20th in 1:12.80 to lead the Canadian contingent.

Karen Percy of Banff, Alta. was 34th in 1:13.79.

Walliser agreed that she had an advantage over later starters, saying, “I am not

Sandman Inn back on track with 15-5 win

By CasNews Staff

Sandman Inn returned to their winning ways in one of two Castlegar Recreational Hockey League games play- ed at the Community Com- plex Sunday by skating cir- cles around Woodland Park Shell for a 15-5 win.

Dan Walker did most of the damage for Sandman, scoring five goals and picking up assists on two others.

Dan Martin and John Obet- koff each notched a hattrick and Martin also managed two assists while Obetkoff added a single.

Other

goalscorers were

Lyle Stoushnow, Bill Chevel- dave, Jeff Townsend and Vince Antignani, each of whom had singles. Stoushnow also picked up five assists, Townsend added four, Bob Larsh and Robin King managed two apiece, while singles went to”Tony DaRosa and Cheveldave. Kelly Keraiff scored two goals and assisted on one other for Woodland Park Shell. Other goal scorers were Doug Makortoff, Jim Nazaroff and Wes McPher- son who each had singles. McPherson also had one assist while Pete Moroso

picked up two. Other assists went to Makortoff, and Neil Archambault with singles.

In the other game on Sun- day Mallards and Playboys pliyéd to'd 6-6 draw. "

Terry Halisheff picked up a fiattrick for the Playboys while Randy Martin added two and Bob Essaunce picked up a single.

Don Savinkoff notched a hattrick for Mallards, while singles went to Shane Hum phrey, Dave MacKinnon and Randy Morris.

Mallards and Woodland Park Shell face off against each other tomorrow.

Defections tough issue

By PAUL WOODS The Canadian Press

we wish them all the luck,” said Hasek, before he was

the players.

Quittet with 82, and Oertli with 25.

At Davos, Switzerland, a men’s World Cup giant sla- lom was cancelled Tuesday because organizers’ believed the risk of avalanche was too great after almost 80 centi- metres of snow fell over- night.

No new date was an- nounced for the event.

Tartabull the ‘accent’

KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) — Danny ~Tartabull may not be the straw that stirs the drink, but the Kansas City Royals would be quite pleased if he drives in as many runs this season a8 he did for the Seattle Mariners last year. “In the lineup, there’s a guy like George Brett. He's the head honcho, the head guy,” Tartabull said this week in his first appearance at Royals Stadium since Kansas City acquired him Dec. 10 from Seattle.

“He's the guy who's going to carry the ballclub. There's a guy like Steve Balboni who can hit 35 home runs and Frank White hitting 25 home runs. nt the accent.”

The Royals are counting on Tartabull to fill a hole in a lineup that has finished 13th in the American League in runs scored in each of the last two baseball seasons.

The 24-year-old Tartabull is coming ‘off a rookie season-in which he hit 26 home runs and drove in 96 runs while batting .270. The Royals gave up Srott Bankhead, Mike Kingery and Steve Shields for Tartabull.

Tartabull shrugged off complaints that he has poor work habits. He said reports that the“Mariners were angry with him because he refused to go to the Florida Instructional League after last season to work on his defence were unfounded.

GETS SICK

“Early in the season, I came down with mononucleosis,” he said. “My work habits — if you ask the experts of the game — have been very good, I regularly went out to right field before games and worked.

“There was no complaint about not ging to the Instructional League from (Seattle general manager) Dick Bal-

derson or (manager) Diek Williams. I was kind of tired and needed to spend time with family to regroup myself for the 1987 season.”

The Royals have temporarily as- signed Tartabull to right field. He may, however, have to play third base if first baseman Balboni is unable to play because of a ruptured disc in his back.

Brett, the third baseman, would take over for Balboni, who is a free agent.

“They were the 1985 world cham- pions,” Tartabull said of his new team. “The Mariners have not been that close in an infinity.”

Tartabull, who played in 19 games for Seattle in 1985, started that season with Calgary of the Pacific Coast League and wound up with 43 home runs and 109 runs batted in before joining the Mariners.

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drei Khomutov, forward with the Soviet national hockey team, like to play someday in the NHL?

“It'll never happen,” said a scowling Khomutov before he was led back to the Soviet dressing room, off limits to reporters asking indelicate questions.

A few minutes later, a re- lated question was asked of Dominik Hasek, goaltender with the Czechoslovakian na tional team. Was he aware that several of his peers are playing in the National Hoc. key League?

“We're interested in how they're doing over here and

Boyd athlete of month

OTTAWA (CP) Alpine skier Rob Boyd of Whistler, has been named the Sports Federation of Canada’s ath lete of the month for Decem ber, federation officials said Tuesday

Boyd, 20, posted, his first win on the World Cup circuit Dec. 13th in a downhill race at Val Gardena, Italy. It proved to be a memorable day for Canadian skiers as Laurie Graham of Ingelwood, Ont., a member of the wom en's World Cup team, also won a race.

Boyd is to be presented with the award Jan. 15 in Toronto.

would like to play in the NHL.

The different answers put a focus on a serious issue for Czechoslovakian hockey of: ficials.

In the last 18 months, Peter Klima, Frantisek Musil and Michal Pivonka have been spirited away to join NHL teams. All were under 24 years old at the time and all are players who likely would have been with the Czechoslovakian national team for years to come.

21 DEFECTORS

Such players as Peter, An- ton and Marian Stastny, Peter Svoboda, Peter Ihn- acak and Vaclav ,Nedoman- sky defected to North Amer- ica. A tally by the Hockey News last fall showed ‘21 Czechoslovakian players have defected sinice 1974.

The only Soviet player to defect-was Victor Nechaev, who failed a tryout with the Los Angeles Kings a few years ago.

Although star players Ser- gei Makarov, Igor Larionov, Vladimir Krutov, Viacheslav Fetisov and Alexei Kasa tonov have been drafted by NHL teams, there is little chance of any Soviet player sneaking away from the KGB agents who accompany the national team on interna tional tours.

At least 13 members of the Czechoslovakian team that played in the recent Calgary Cup tournament have been drafted by NHL clubs, and head coach Jan Starsi ad. mitted that alone can distract

“We think the important thing is to concentrate on the game and keep these things off our minds,” he said. “We know some of them are draf- ted, they can read that in the paper.”

A few days later, it was revealed that star forward Jiri Hrdina will be allowed to join the Calgary Flames after the 1988 Winter Olympics, when he will be 30. Czech- oslovakian officials have” per- mitted nine players to play in the NHL after their 30th

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SOME ARE BUSTS

Some, like Jiri Bubla of the Vancouver Canucks, have played well. Others, like Milan Chalupa and Frantisek Cernik of the Detroit Red Wings and Jiri Crha of the Toronto Maple Leafs, were busts.

Starsi said his country will continue to allow “those who reach a certain age limit and fulfill other criteria” to join NHL teams. He said Czech oslovakian officials are con sidering lowering the age limit and have discussed the issue with Canadian hockey ezar Alan Eagleson.

They may have no other choice. Hrdina, a nifty centre, said “it's still a dream of more or less every player in Czech oslovakia to play in the NHL.”

Some NHL teams, such as the Flames, refuse to entice players to defect, preferring official channels. Others will make all-out efforts to land Czechoslovakian draftees.

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