HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1994-11-30, Page 19111 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, November 30, 11994
Feature
Seaforth native on Ontario team
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Expositor Staff
Seaforth's Boyd Devereaux seems
to have the hockey world by the tail
right now. But he's always been
modest, knows there are always
things that can be improved and has
never been the sort to let the
headlines swell his head.
"Bungee" ( with a hard "g") as
his teammates on the Seaforth
Centenaires took to calling him two
years ago because of his infectious
enthusiasm and ability to zip around
the ice as if propelled by an
invisible slingshot or bungee cord,
has the scouts now drooling two
years later as a 16 -year-old leading
the Midwestern Junior B Hockey
League in scoring with the high-
flying Stratford Cullitons.
His manager calls him the best
16 -year-old he's seen since Ed
Olczyk passed through the Festival
City en route to what is now a 263 -
goal career in the National Hockey
League. To top things off, Boyd
was recently named to the
defending champion Ontario Under -
17 Team which will compete in the
Canada Winter Games next
February.
Experts predict if Boyd chooses
to enter the Junior 'A' OHL draft
next spring he will be one of the
first three players chosen.
He is not your stereotyped dim-
witted hockey player either. Boyd
just got his grade 11 report card the
other day and is carrying an
average of 83 per cent, despite the
three practices and two or three
games a week the Cullitons play
during the regular season. Then
there are all the other distractions a
young man is heir to.
He retains his youthful
enthusiasm and is most eager to
talk about his team, which leads the
league and had a mind-boggling
record run of 28 -straight home
victories (bracketed by overtime
losses at both ends and itself
preceeded, by a 17 -game winning
streak) that began Oct. 30 in 1993
and was snapped Friday night.
"I'm really excited about the way
things have come along so far,"
Boyd says. "We're always together,
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Goderich Street East, is leading
much more so than last year, and
all the guys get along great. We've
got some very talented players and
good goal -keeping. They get really
excited about the game and are
always enthusiastic."
He leads the league in points and
assists. His running tally so far is
53 points in 23 games from 15
goals and 38 assists with a mere six
minutes in penalties. Three of his
goals have been game winners. He
has scored three times on the
powerplay and twice while the
Cullitons were shorthanded. Last
season, his first out of Seaforth, he
finished with 12 goals and 27
assists for 39 points, with eight
penalty minutes, in 46 games.
If you haven't seen Boyd lately
you might not recognize him.
When he first reported to the
Centenaires three summers ago he
was 5'4" and weighed 114 pounds.
He skipped midget altogether and
the Cents signed him in November
of 1992, paying .the local minor
hockey association $1,000 for his
s : • yd • evereaux, son of Ken and Lorraine Devereaux of
the Midwestem Junior 'B' Hockey League in scoring.
release. Critics said it was akin to moving the puck, it was boom-
boom-b000m, the passes were so
quick thinking," he says. "It wasn't
a lot more physical actually. The
Junior Development League is
about as physical as you can get.
But there are some big boys in 'B'
too."
Scouts say 15 -year-old Scott
Thornton of the Junior 'B' St.
Thomas Stars and Detroit's Jason
Yorke, who plays for Thornhill in
the Metro Toronto A League, are
the other brightest prospects for
next spring's junior draft, but the
NCAA college route is another
inviting option, which former
Centenaires Pat and Rem Murray
and Mike Watt, all of whom
graduated from Seaforth to the
Stratford juniors, have taken.
"I've got a big decision at the end
of this season I guess," Boyd says,
robbing the cradle, and felt the
willowy youngster would get hurt
playing with the big boys.
It didn't happen and Boyd
sprouted in dramatic fashion, now
listed as 6' and 175 lbs. That's a
difference of eight inches and 60
pounds, but has nothing to do with
steroids. He worked a lot on the
weights two summers ago and
enrolled in a fitness and nutrition
programme, designed by Stratford's
Grant Hernden, that involved eating
more of the right kinds of things.
"Grant did good w_olk for me and
then, I don't lawhi, God did the
rest," Boyd says. "Around
Christmas last season I found
myself not getting knocked around
quite as much on the ice. It happens
gradually and you never really
notice it. It's just: 'Wow', 'What's
going on?', when you look back."
Boyd says the biggest adjustment
moving up to 'B' hockey was the
speed of everything.
"When I went up into training
camp and I saw all these players
"whether to go to the '0' or take
another year in Stratford and go on
to college. I'm going to wait it out
I guess and make a decision at the
end of the year."
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