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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-11-18, Page 8Page 8 Times -Advocate, November 18, 1981 When sports teams do not fare too well, there are only two things that owners and management can do. The 1981-82 National Hockey League season is only a month or so old, but, a couple of teams are pushing the panic button and making changes. Only one so far has gone to the route of firing the coach. That's the Washington Capitals that had the youngest coach in NHL history in Gary Green. The former Peterborough Petes coach is now the youngest coach ever to be dismissed and the Caps went to their farm team at Hershey to bring up coach Brian Murray. Washington players will likely find a tremendous change in coaching tactics as Murray describes himself as a disciplinarian and demanding. Like Green his coaching background before Hershey was limited to high school college and junior ranks with the Regina Pats of the Western junior league. At least three trades have taken place in the NHL this week and there are rumours of more impending. In most trades each team is trying to dicker to get the best of the deal, but, we doubt if that was the motive when Harold Ballard finally got rid of Ian Turnbull. Ballard was likely happy to get anything at all in return for Turnbull who had lost favour with not only Leaf management, but, the fans as well. When we were in Toronto more than a month ago and talking to Ballard the question came up, "Why don't you trade Turnbull, and Pat Hal quickly replied, "Nobody wants him." • Taking a deeper look at the trade, it might turn out to be good for both clubs. Turnbull certainly has the ability and in new surroundings might blossom back to what he was a couple of years ago and should be good for another four or five years m the NHL. On the Leafs side of the ledger they get a strong penalty killer in Billy Harris and a big, tough youngster in John Gibson. For Harris it should be a welcome homecoming. Almost 10 years ago Harris played with the Toronto Marlboros on one of the greatest forward lines in junior hockey history with Steve Shutt and Dave Gardner. Harris was the number one pick overall in the 1971-72 draft and he became the first New York Islander when selected by general manager Bill Torrey. Leaf coach Mike Nykoluk is pleased to have Harris saying, "There was too much of a burden put on him as the top pick and everybody expected him to be a super star. I don't think he will ever be a super star, but, he's a talented hockey player who does a lot of things and does them well." Billy Harris should be very valuable to the Leafs in killing penalties and in any situation when they want a particular player shadowed and checked. The other player from the Kings in the deal John Gibson will likely be sent off to the farm in Cincinatti for development and could fit into long range Leaf plans. Getting back to Turnbull his career appeared to go downhill when Roger Neilson was let go as coach and over the past three seasons his play could be described as indifferent to say the least. The highlight of Turnbull's stay with the Leafs would be in February of 1977 when he scored five goals in a game against the Detroit Red Wings. With Harris joining the Toronto lineup, the club now has 11 first round draft selections on the roster. The other top draft choices are Darryl Sittler, Wilf Paiement, Dan Maloney, Laurie Boschman, Bill Derlago, John Anderson, Paul Marshall, Bob Manno, Jim Benning and Gary Yaremchuk. That sounds like a lot of talent and should add up to more than only 11 points in the first 16 games of the new season. A quick look at the goals against record and one can see why the Leafs are in last place in the Norris division. The Toronto club has allowed 78 goals, which is almost five goals a game. The only clubs with poorer records in that department are Los Angeles, Calgary and Quebec. In the other recent trades, the Detroit Red Wings appear to have the best of the deal when they picked up Eric Vail from Calgary for Gary McAdam and a cou- ple of fourth round draft choices. The Flames are getting desperate. They have also sent captain Brad Marsh to Philadelphia for a tough centre Mel Bridgman. The Red Wings off to a good start in the early go-: ing have fallen off a bit and can be expected to do some: more trading. The latest rumour we heard on a Detroit radio station Thursday night is that Mark Howe may' be included in the latest trade talks. Open up the money sacks The latest baseball free agent draft is now over and some clubs will be having lots of financial talks with the players they chose in Friday's selections. Not as many clubs took part in the draft as have in the past. This probably shows they don't have the necessary dollars to throw around. MoaWks vs MENSAL THURSDAY AT 8:30 P.M. SOUTH HURON REC CENTRE SPONSORED BY 0017DATa417 I f f Remain two games back Hawks win three times, fail Winning three out of four games in one week should be enough to enable a team to hold or even better its league position. But it wasn't for the Exeter Hawks. The Hawks dropped a 3-2 decision to the Tavistock Braves at the rec centre, Sunday, and fell two full games behind the Braves in the northern division. It was the third loss of the season for the Hawks, while Tavistock have lost just once, that being an earlier meeting in Exeter. Mitchell stayed right behind the locals in third place, having lost the same number of games, but also having a tie in their record. In the first meeting of the season, Exeter posted a 9-0 win over Tavistock, but they ran out of steam on Sunday, playing their third game in DEEP IN EXETER'S END — Goalie Rich Fletcher of the Exeter Hawks tries to keep an eye on the action as Exeter and Lucan Irish players mix it up behind the net. The Hawks went on to defeat Lucan at a seniors night in Exeter, Friday. At home to Braves, tonight Irishget only• The Lucan Irish could only gain one point in two games this week in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior "D" western division action. The Irish were held to a 5-5 tie by the Mount Brydgess, Bulldogs Wednesday night at the Lucan arena and Friday night they dropped a close 4- 3 decision to the Exeter Hawks at the South Huron Rec Centre. In league play this week, the Irish were in Mitchell to play the Hawks last night and tonight, Wednesday they will be at home at the Lucan arena to the Tavistock Braves. A goal by Doug Latta on a pass from Geoff Edwards at 14.24 of the third period allowed the Irish to get back on even terms with Mount Brydges and salvage one point in the standings. The first period was even with each team scoring one goal. The game was only 15 seconds old when Geoff Edwards put the Irish on the scoreboard as he converted a pass from John Medd. Dan O'Brien squared the score 1 1 t 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 for the Bulldogs near the midway mark of the period. In the second period, Mount Brydges scored three times to only a pair of successful shots by the Irish. The two Lucan scores came Pooley's off to good start Paul and Perry Pooley are off to a good start in their se- cond season with the Ohio State Buckeyes hockey team. Paul who led the team in scoring last year has four goals and two assists in the first six games while Perry has scored twice. The Buckeyes have an overall season record of three wins, two losses and one tie. After a recent weekend split with CCHA defending champion Northern Michigan, Ohio State coach Jerry Welsh commented "Paul Pooley had a fine weekend. He seems to be coming around." on three-way passing com- binations. Art Gregory notched the first on passes from Dean Scott and Dave Egan and Ron Glenn chalked up the se- cond marker on a play started by Steve Thompson and Dave Paton. Scoring for Mount Brydges in the middle frame were Rob Wytenberg, Roger Thomas and Jeff O'Brien. At 7:02 of the final 20 minutes of play,- Jamie Shipley squared the score for Lucan as he completed a neat passing effort with cap- tain Paul Wraith and Doug Latta. Only 56 seconds later, Thomas counted for Mount Brydges to put his team ahead again and set the stage for Latta's game tying counter with less than six minutes left in the game. The Irish took seven of the 11 penalties called by referee Bill Walsh. None affected the scoring. Particulars of Friday's loss to the Exeter Hawks appear elsewhere on these pages. as many nights due to a scheduling quirk. They posted wins over Belmont, Lucan and Seaforth in the other three outings. The Hawks host Seaforth on Friday, then travel to Mt. Brydges on Saturday and finish another hectic weekend with a game in Hensall against Seaforth on Sunday night. Fluke wins it The Hawks had trouble sustaining any offensive drives at the rec centre, Sun- day, as they dropped the close decision to the Braves. The winning marker came early in the second period on a play that netminder Rich Fletcher thought he had smothered. However, the puck came loose and was quickly banged into the cage before Fletcher could recover. Kerry Bedard and Brian Mercer scored for the Hawks with assists going to Rick Lindenfield, Bill Glover and Pete Tuckey. 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Exeter spotted their guests an early 1-0 lead and then roared back to take command with four straight goals of their own. The final two goals for Lucan came in the last four minutes of the game as the Hawks came dangerously close to coasting too far with their margin. Doug Brooks, Preston Dearing, Tony Underhill and Brian Mercer scored for the Hawks, the latter two on un- assisted efforts. Larry Dow - son and Brooks picked up assists on the other tallies. Geoff Edwards banged home a pair for the Irish and Dave Egan had the single. Both teams scored once on the powerplay and Exeter had a margin of 29-22 in shots on goal. The Hawks also won the penalty parade wjth_nine minors, while the Irish had six. Beat Bombers For the first time in two seasons, the Hawks scored a win in Belmont, coming home with a 6-4 triumph, Wednesday. They scored two short-handed goals within 13 seconds in the middle frame and the winner in the third came on a powerplay. Brian Mercer and Bill Glover notched two goals each to lead the victory with singles going to Dave Atthill and Steve Prout. John Ker - nick assisted on three and Mercer helped out on a pair. Adding single assists were Pete Tuckey, Prout, Dear- ing, Brian Baker and Atthill. The game was a wide-open affair as Belmont had 46 shots and Exeter recorded 45. The teams split in penalties with nine minors each. Rally for win In Hensall, Saturday, the Hawks scored three times in the final period to break a dead lock and post a 6-3 win over the Centenaires. Seaforth led 2-1 after the first and the squads were even at three apiece after two periods before the Hawks got the winner at the 8:51 mark of the third and then added two insurance tallies. Paul Johnson, Kerry Bedard, Tony Underhill, Preston Dearing and Steve Prout scored for the Hawks with Brian Baker leading the assist parade with a pair. Hiilping out on one goal each wire Ed Willis, Jamie Chaffe, John Kernick, Pete Tuckey, Larry Dawson and Brian Mercer. Mike Tadgell turned aside 27 shots for Exeter, while Dan McClure stopped 26. Seaforth served eight of the 15 penalties. 9oumu+nurunniununnnnuunu: HOCKEY • . at its best SOUTH HURON REC, CENTRE OHA Junior 'D' Friday, Nov.20 8:30 p.m. Seaforth vs Exeter Hawks Sponsored by Hawks Booster Club 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111117 champ. Once again theRabbit Diesel has the best fuel economy in Canada. 65 mpg 1/100km* • Rating bated on approved Transport Canada tett methods. Your uel COntumpt,on will vary. 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