HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-01-29, Page 6LAURIE SKINNER of the Exeter Hawks turns aside a shot during a
practice drill on Monday night. Manager Fred Mommersteeg feels that
the Hawks are not receiving enough ice time to practice and sees this
as one of the reasons for the Hawks long winless slump. The Hawks
practiced Monday night and went out and snapped the slump by
beating Mitchell 4.1 on Tuesday. photo by Youngs.
Practices upset Mommersteeg
Hawks snap slump in Mitchell
Mohawks take two
in SHHL hockey ,
George Tryon's hat trick on
January 22 and one by Mike
Cushman on January 28 led the
Exeter Mohawks to two wins this
past week in SHHL hockey action
in Exeter.
CCAT opened the scoring in the
first game, at 4:28 when Peter
Deunk popped one past Rob
Grant. Exeter came back with a
goal by John Varley to tie it up.
Tryon's first goal of the game
put Exeter out ahead for the first
time in the game, before CCAT's
Derick Martin and Jeff Graham
made it 3-2 for CCAT.
Exeter came on for four suc-
cessive goals, two in the second
and two in the third, to take a
secure hold in the game, Tryon
picked up two, and Allan Knight
and Dennis Bierling added the
winner and insurance markers,
CCAT's Brad Spiers put one in
at 19:29 to finish the scoring.
The Mohawks played the whole
game with a skeleton crew of only
six players, including goalie
Grant.
The Mohawks never trailed in
their 8-5 win over the Huron Park
Plugs on Tuesday night, as Brad
Daters sent them off with just
over a minute to go in the period.
Huron Park tied the score with
less then a minute to play when J,
Thomas scored, but Cushman's
first goal of the game with nine
seconds left put Exeter back out
in front.
Cushman scored again in the
second before two Plug goals tied
the game at three each, Rick
Funston and Bill Hodge were the
goals scorers.
Three in a row, two by Murray
Glanville and one by Cushman
cemented the win for the
Mohawks. Each team then
picked up two goals, to round out
the scoring. Thomas and Funston
for the Plugs and Van Bergen and
Daters for the Mohawks. The
Plugs took 10 of the 19 minors
called:
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The Exeter Hawks finally
snapped their long winless slump
Tuesday night when they handed
the Mitchell Hawks a 4-1 defeat,
after dropping their two weekend
contests to Seaforth and
Tavistock.
The Hawks were edged 4-3
Friday night by Seaforth after
Seaforth exploded for a three
goal second period with a strong
power play.
Seaforth's Rick McDonald
scored the only goal of the
opening frame, at 5:06 on a power
play with Paul Brooks cooling his
heels on a high sticking call,
McDonald came back again in
the second with an unassisted
goal, again on a power play to put
the Centennaires two up before
Brooks put the Hawks onto the
scoreboard when he converted a
pass from Don McKellar.
Don Nicholson added two more
goals before the period ended,
including the winner, which
again came on a power play with
Gerald Weido off.
The Hawks came to life in the
third frame, as Ken Pinder and
Brian Taylor each counted one,
but it was not enough as the
Centennaires took the game.
Manager Fred Mommersteeg
was critical of the refereeing of
Friday's game, particularly a
call against Steve Jennison at the
end of the game.
Jennison was leaving the ice
when he was pushed from behind
by an opposing player. He turned
to, fight and his assailant backed
off', making it appear that Jen-
nison was the aggressor. Jen-
nison was slapped with a fighting
major and a match penalty, none
of which had any bearing on the
game's result, but brings a
pending suspension against
Jennison who is a valuable part of
the Hawks game, His opponent
went uncharged.
Mommersteeg said that he
plans to take the issue to OHA
officials.
by Fred Youngs
Like any young person growing up, I had my heroes. In
my eyes these were great men and I admired them as much
for their talent as their fame.
I grew up in Hamilton. Hamilton is a city that is loved
and hated. Those who don't live their lives in the city that
steel built hate it. They hate the dirt, the smoke and the two
tier system of life caused by the Niagara escarpment.
Those that live there love it. I still do. One day Gordie Howe
came to Hamilton, to a department store on a promotional
gimmick. He was signing autographs, "
What this department store did was to set Gordie up in
the middle of their sporting goods department . . in the
middle of the expensive hockey gloves, shoulder pads and
sweaters, and have him sign autographs from a podium.
We lined up to get the autograph, Lined up for two,
three, some for four hours to get someone to sign their
name, Gordie has some nice colour pictures of himself in an
all-star uniform poised with both hands holding the stick
and looking very intently down that famous sharp point of a
nose. You got up to where the great man sat and were hand-
ed this glossy photo and gave it to him who had scored more
points then anyone in NHL history. He took it, signed his
name and gave it back. Not once did he say anything, not
once did he look me in the eye. How could he? He was hero
to thousands of other kids who wanted his name on their
copy of that self-same picture. It was the first time I felt
ripped off by the sports industry.
I've felt the same sort of disappointment and dis-
illusionment with sports many times since then but none
has pulled harder at my heart than when Gordie Howe just
signed the paper.
Frank Mahovolich. I lived for the Big M, hung off every
move, every word he said. When Tommy Ivan, then owner
of the Black Hawks offered Punch Imlach one million for
the Big M I thought it was funny. He was worth more than
that. He was worth three times that.
Libbys, a company noted for vegetables and such, once
gave away a picture of Mahovolich with the purchase
of two cans of their product. My mother bought two cans
and brought home the picture after I had seen an ad in the
paper and convinced her that I really did need that picture.
It hung in my room for years. There was nothing special
about it, merely Mahovolich skating out of a darkened
arena and putting on the brakes with the ice and snow flying
up from his feet, those fast feet, and his hands gripping the
stick as if to say that he was ready for a slap-shot.
Remember how he'd do that? Take a pass at center ice, fly
down the left wing and just after he got inside the blue line
let a shot go that would bulge the mesh out as far as it would
go? He can't do it anymore.
Mahovolich, like so many others has outplayed his
time. Toronto sloughed him off when he went sour and
Detroit did the same, sending him to Montreal. He's now
with the Toros in the WHA, but Montreal didn't fight one
helluva lot to keep him when he decided to jump.They won't
take him back now.
The trouble with these men is that they are not selling
anything now, only their hockey souls. It is a game of attri-
tion and when the body can't move as fast and when the
ache in the knees and hands gets too much they quit.
Unlike we mere mortals they have had fame. They have
tasted glory and have fallen not in love with themselves but
the soap box image of themselves.
What it leaves us with are broken heroes, men who
were once king of the mountain becoming the mountain
when new kings take over.
The drive is there but the body isn't. Sports is a young
man's game. It needs fresh legs and arms and fresh lungs.
It has room for the fallen and the falling, but only in the
sense that they are wily and cagey. They have that little bit
more puck sense or ball feel that permits them to play on.
They can sometimes look good against the young lions.
My fallen heroes go to the WHA. The WHA is a syphon
league, a pot for those finished or those not good enough. I
hate it, not because it is an alternative league but because it
offers the opportunity for the old to continue.
Sure Mahovolich and Howe look good in the WHA. It is a
second rate league with second rate players. Some can only
come so high and others, when they fall low enough, can
join. Teams of money orphans and fame seekers all driving
a once classical poetic sport over the end.
One day Bobby Orr will play in the WHA. One day when
his already shellshocked knees give out and he can't keep up
and his days as puck god of the NHL ends and another one
comes along. When it does a team owner, knowing of his
value, since his name should not be spelt 0-r-r but G-o-l-d,
will buy him up. He will look good but he will never be the
same.
Heroes are good promo men. The best that there is
because who can resist the tug on the heart from the kid
who wants the picture and how much is two cans of beans?
Essentially, there is nothing wrong about lending the name
to the product as the stars, the heroes are merely extending
themselves in their chosen field . . selling themselves.
Ad men love Bobby Orr. They love Phil Esposito. Orr
with his classic purity, his superior ability is the promo
man's dream. You can not deny Bobby Orr, he is the best
at what he does, makes money at what he does, leads a good
life and is an uprighteous generally marvellous person. You
name the ethic and Orr fits it.
But where will Orr be in ten years? How long will his
knees last? Will he be dallying in the WHA or will he play it
smart and get out before the sheen wears off and the eight
year olds who line up for his autograph and buy beans for
his picture suddenly realize that sports, with its rusted
values has ripped them off too?
Unfortunately Orr will be in the WHA, or some other
aberation of a league. He and Esposito, and Dionne and
Dryden and all those who can't make it anymore but are ad-
dicted to the fame will all be there.
Then they'll move on, the top ones in dollar value, to
jobs in television giving their own views on the actions of
the ones that are replacing them. Some will go quietly.
Some will just retire with the honour of their years intact,
Pete Mahovolich will do that and so will a few others but
most will hold on as long as the string is there.
I wonder if it is not so much their fault but the fault of
our culture which elevates the game to near epic propor-
tions. Each game deciding the fate of ours and their lives. A
soap opera in 76 installments with 18 cast members. The
powerful, greedy Canadians, the rough tough Flyers who
made good, the poor, underprivileged Scouts and Capitals
and the great middle class of Penguins, Leafs and Black
Hawks.
Maybe our aging heroes are being sent to graves of
mediocrity as much by our demands as by the league and
Systems. My father once said he wanted to age gracefully.
He has. My old heroes haven't,
first goal of the game,
The Braves opened up for three
goals in the second period, by
Dan Yantzi, McKay with his first
and Steinman. Steinman's goal
came while the Hawks were
playing two men p short, as Gerald
Weido and Phil Knight were off.
Don McKellar had the only
second period reply for the
Hawks.
Jets slammed
5-1 by Huskies
After whomping the Durham
Huskies 9-2 the week before, the
Lucan-Ilderton Jets were on the
other end of the stick as the
Huskies outplayed them and beat
them 5-1 in Ilderton on Sunday in
Continental Senior A hockey.
The Huskies, who beat the.Jets
everywhere on the 'scoreboard
including penalties, skated to
the win on the basis of three first
period goals.
Dean Neuman, Dean Symmons
and Gerry Herman each con-
nected in the opening frame to
give the Huskies all the scoring
that they needed to win. Both
Symmons and Neuman scored
again in the second period to add
to the total.
Bill Fairbairn sandwiched the
The Canadian Figure Skating • only Jet goal in between the two
markers at 16:25 of the second. Association held tests in Huron The Jets were slapped with 18 Park on January 20. The results minors over the game and one of the tests are: major, while the Huskies took 21 Stroking - Karen Mehagan, minors, a major and a miscon-Bonnie Kooy, Chantelle Kellar, duct to Brad Deline.
Shelly Thomes, Kim Hammen, Rick Fifield became the sixth Vickie Reynolds, Debbie player in league history to reach Hodgsons. the 200 point plateau last week as
Elementary - Vickie Reynolds, he went over the top with 201 Pauline Jackson, Karen points.' He is currently the sixth
Mehagan, Kim Hammel], highest scorer in the league
Rosemary Morisey, Wendy history and with three more Bierling, Laurie Shoebottom, points will move into the fifth. Basic - Debbie Nelles , The Jets have four scorers in Novice 1 - Lisa Legoff, Cindy the top 20 this year, with player- Mineault, coach Steve DeGurse leading the
team with 11 goals and 26 assists
for eighth spot. He is followed by
Randy Roth, with 32 points and
Fifield with 31 in eleventh and
twelfth and Rick Martin in
twentieth with 28 points.
The Jets currently have 810
minutes in penalties, just 59
minutes short of the record
presently held by the Durham
Huskies.
The game against the Wood-
stock Royals in Woodstock on
Friday night was cancelled. It
has yet to be' rescheduled.
Power skating
at Huron Park
Several members of the Boys
Power Skating group in Huron
Park earned badges this past
week. Following are the results,
Badges were earned by:
(Number 1 badge) - Jeff
Sutherland, Andrew Nicol, Paul
Gingerich, Steven Watson,
Badges Number 1 and Number
2 were earned by Brian
Sutherland, David Medd, Jamie
Duncan, Doug Medd, Scott
Merrylees and Steven McIntyre.
Pinder picked up his second of
the,night, just 15 seconds into the
final frame to tie the score at 4-4.
Tavistock leaped into the lead
again on a goal by Steve Yantzi
before Brian Taylor tied it up at
14:36 with an unassisted effort.
The game remained tied until
McKay popped in his second goal,
the winner with just 1;03 left to
play in the game, to sink the
Hawks.
The Hawks took 13 minors
compared to the Braves nine.
The slump, which started
December 22 and ran through
nine games with the, Hawks
picking up only two ties ended
Tuesday night in Mitchell as the
Hawks won 4-1 led by Brian
Taylor with two goals.
Ken Pinder and John Van
Gerwen connected for first period
markers to give the Hawks all the
scoring they needed to win.
Greg Rolph had the only reply
for Mitchell near the end of the
period.
Taylor scored once in the
second to add the insurance and
then again in the third.
The Hawks took eight minors to
Mitchell's six, along with the
Hawks' Don McKellar who went
on a penalty binge at 9:57 of the
second period when he left the
game with a holding minor,
fighting major, game misconduct
and the automatic minor that
goes With misconducts. His two
minors and major were served .by
Tom Richardson.
Jennison, suspended after the
Seaforth game, has yet to
reappear.
The Hawks remain in sixth
place, comfortably ahead of Port
Stanley and three points behind
Mitchell, with 22 points.
They are one win away from a
50 percent record; with 10 wins, 11
losses and two ties.
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He was also critical of the
amount of time that the Hawks
are receiving for practice. He
said that quite often they can
practice only on Sunday nights
and the bulk of their games follow
five days later on Friday night.
"You don't warm up a race
horse on Sunday and then race
him on Saturday" Mommersteeg
said, in reference to his team's
being cold on Friday night
games. He places a lot of reason
for the slump on the lack of ice
time for the Junior D club, which,
he says, is the most important
part of the Minor Hockey
organization in Exeter.
Pairs of goals by Dwight
Steinman and Keith McKay led
the Tavistock Braves to their
slim 6-5 win over the Hawks
Sunday night in Tavistock.
Ken Pinder opened the scoring
for Exeter after 25 seconds had
elapsed when he converted a
three way passing play by John
Van Gerwen and Phil Knight.
Two minutes later Rick Ingram
made it 2-0 for the Hawks.
The Braves got on the
scoreboard at the end of the
period when Steinman scored his
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