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lVlooretown takes bow in face of Mohawk come -back
Mooretown's Tim Maracle made a
fatal mistake Friday night in game
five of the best -of -five Hardy Cup
series.-
After
eries.After breaking a 2-2 tic with a
goal midway through the second
period, Maracle skated over to the
Exeter section of the stands and did
a litticxit toryjig.
The dance celebrated- -the_lasL ships which will be held in New
Mooretown goal of the series. "Brunswick
The enraged Mohawks pounced on
Comets, scoring less than one min-
ute Tater, propelling themselves to-
ward a 7-3 win and a series victory.
crs, a senior team from the -Ottawa
District Hockey Association, won
the Hardy Cup Ontario champion-
ship last season after ousting Dur-
hwn Huskies (then a Senior A club)
in four games._
"1 he series against Flyers will de-
termine the Ontario representative
for the Eastern Canadian Champion=
"It was reverse psychology, said
Mohawks coach Jim Guenther of
the Maracle incident. "Instead of
putting us in the hole, he Tired us
up.
"You could just sense the mo-
mentum. The steamroller was start-
ing to come."
With Moorctown out of the way,
Mohawks face Lanark Flyers. Fly -
Shaw
Continued from page IA
"There's a lot of traveling down.
town for games," Shaw explains.
"In Quebec we were five minutes
The best -of -five series will he
hell' in the Exeter area during the
first week of April. Exact details of
the series schedule have yet to be
announced.
The final battle
Friday night's game was a fitting
end to a series which at one time
appeared to belong to Moorctown.
Leading the series two .games to
one, Comets were outplayed by
Mohawks 6-5 Tuesday night in
game four: That set the stage for the
barn -burner which ended the series
Friday night in Mooretown.
Comets had the edge in the first
period and by 17:46 they had built a
2-0 lead on the strength of goals by
Dave McCormick and Mark Hillier.
With less than one minute re-
maining in the first, Dave Rander-
son scored from Paul Barton and
Randy Kraut.
The Strattord line, made up of
Randerson, Quincy Wilker and Paul
Barton; accounted for five oLilte
seven Mohawk goals Friday night.
Randerson's goal gave Exeter
some momentum going into the
second, At 10:43, Randy Baily con-
verted a pass from Barton and Ran-
derson to tie the game 2-2.
Two minutes later, _ Maracle
scored his fateful goal.
John Rowland was the first to
turn the Mohawk outrage into_
points. He scored at 13:06, unas-
sisted. •
In the third, Dale Gibbon, Barton
and Wilker with two goals finished
off Mooretown's chances of claim-
ing the Hardy Cup..
Mohawks 6 - Cornets 5
Tuesday night, Mohawks found
themselves in a do-or-die situation.
Trailing 2-1 in the series, they
came out flying and struggled to a
6-5 win in a game that could have
swung, in either team's favour at
in the Big Apple
from everything."
With -two different ice surfaces and
two complete sets of equipment,
life coin he like one long road -trip.
SiGN HERE - Fans crowd Dave Shaw in order to get la souvenir auto-
graph after an open practice in New York.
•
f
r
"It's tough to get used to. Some trails off and Trish picks up the
days it just feels like we play 80 thought.
-away games." "You have to prepare yourself,"
The celebrity status of hockey she concludes.
players is also reduced on the streets Asked if drugs are a problem in
in New York because of the sheer hockey circles, Shaw relies on his
number of people. own experiences.
"In Quebec, we'd go to a shop- No one I play with has done
ping mall and people would know drugs," he maintains: "No one that I
us," Shaw says, noting they arc know of. I have heard of guys that
rarely recognized in public now. do drugs, but that's the case with
"It probably has its good points most jobs. There's always going to
and its bad points. You like to be be a person who has drugs."
recognized -the odd time, but not all Shaw explains that, compared to
the time." professional baseball or football,
While the atmosphere outside the hockey players have relatively low
rink has become more hostile for salaries (the average salary for
the transplanted Canadians, life with players in the NHL is $100,000 per
the Rangers has been pleasant.- year). And drug habits tend to be
Shaw's relationship with head coach very expensive.
Michel Bergeron has thawed consid- 'There aren't too many parties,"
erably since their arrival in New he says of hockey social life. "You
York. have_to stay low-keyed. When we're
-Bergeron was tough on Shaw in " on the road we'll go out to a bar,
Quebec last year when the defence- but so do most people."
man came down with mononucteo- "Your job is your life," adds
sis, and though he is still pushing Trish. "It's everything you do. You
for results in New York, he has can't just go downtown at night and
changed his tactics. The new ap- live it up because you know it af-
proach seems to be boosting Shaw's fects your game. Everything is cen-
confidence rather than tearing it tered around hockey."
down. The couple is looking forward to
And then there is the difference in a summer in Ontario; away from
general managers. the tension and rampant crime also- -
Nordiquc GM Maurice Filion was ciated with New York.
inaccessible compared to New York Shaw, by nature shy and reserved,
GM Phil Esposito. never feels like the local hero he has
"The only time I ever saw himbecome to many in the Exeter area.
(Filion) was when 1 was going to "I really look forward to going
be sent down or called up, Shaw back (to Southern Ontario) and
. says. "I talked to him maybe 10 then, after the first week :the thrill
minutes in five years." - is sortof worn off after you sec eve -
Shaw is full of admiration for Es- rybody, he comments.
posito. - At times, his celebrity status in
"Hc likes to be around the the area makes him uncomfortable.
players. If you have a good game, When Shaw meets people on the
he'llbe one of the guys that'll come street, family, friends and various
up and tell you -- say that you're interests arc forgotten. Their conver-
ptaying well and what -not" cation always turns to hockey.
"It's frustrating sometimes. I like
Out of the fast -lane being recognized, but when I sec
After the streets of Manhattan, the people, all they want to talk about
Shaw's tastefully decorated two bed- is hockey. That's their main concern
room condominium in Harrison is -- they want to know all about
like a breath of normalcy. There are hockey.
no signs of the big -bucks, fast- "I find it very difficult some -
paced life you might expect a pro- times," he says. "I guess people
fessional hockey player and his prct- just want to know."
ty wifc to lead.
Home from a night's work against * * *
Washington Capitals, Norton, a Shaw has been signing auto -
beautiful Labrador Retriever, meets graphs, chatting lightly and posing
them at the door. Shoes come off, for pictures for 10 minutes or more
slippers go on and David Letterman and there is little to indicate that the
soon smirks from the TV. small crowd is losing interest.
The fast life of professional ath- A teenaged boy, decked out in a
letcs begins to look mythical and. Rangers' sweater and carrying an au -
Ontario -doesn't seem so far a way. tographcd hockey stick, spots me
"A lot of people think that we and breaks away from the crowd. He
have a lot of money," Shaw says. still suspects that I'm, employed by
"We've played for four years and we the Rangers:
have a car and a cottage paid for." When 1 finally explain why I. was
Trish breaks in, reminding him slinking through a closed amuse -
that what they have is a lot. ment park with Dave Shaw, he asks
,. „
[ know it is, Shaw continues, me to take a picture of him, a sea-
hut a tot of people think: 'Hcy, he soned and loyal fan, with the New
plays in the NHL -- hes got a mil- York defenceman.
lion bucks in the bank.' It's not like Then he quietly confides: "Aw,
that. We're comfortable at the time, y'know, I think Dave Shaw is the
but when hockey's done ..." he best player the Rangers have got."
Trish Shaw:
Independent,
Continued from page lA
matter. Though Davc is 'rarely in-
volved in the boxing matches spat-
tered throughout the league, when
he docs get into a fight, it's hard for
his wife to take.
"I 'don't like it when anyone fights
on the team, let alone Dave. 1 just
sort of watch out of the corner of
my eye and turn my head and hope
to God he gets through it," Trish
explains. I don't think it's some-
thing you'll ever get used to -- it's
always going to be upsetting."
Often alone.
Because 40 of the 80 games
played over the course of the season
.:.are played on foreign ice, Trish
finds herself alone on a regular ba-
sis. But, self-sufficient and self-
assured, the long stretches without"
Dave don't fizzle her.
"i don't mind it when they go (on
road -trips). I don't like the five day
road trips -- those are kind of hard `--
but the shorter trips arc nice because
you get to do the things yoti enjoy
doing," Trish says. "1 enjoy beine
self-assured
any time.
-"Our backs were against the wall
and -you've -rot to -show some class
and this hockey club has some
class," an elated Guenther said after
his second win of the series.
"We aren't used to playing their
style of hockey. We're used to .a
more" open style. They forced a
more 'grind -em' style and we. had to
adjust."
The coach was already looking
forward to the frnal game, -however:
"You can't take anything away
. from that hockey team (Comets).
You know they're not going to let
up"
Mohawks took a 2-0 lead in the
first period on the strength of goals
by John Kernick and Dale Gibbon,
but Moorctown overpowered the
home team in the second, scoring
four goals,- two of them unan-
swered:
Kernick and Bill Glover provided
the 4-4 tic in the second with single
goals. •
Barry Baynharn put the edge back
on Mohawks blades at 8:59 of the
final period when he came off the
bench and found himself alone at_
centre ice. Picking up a pass from
Paul Kalbflcisch, Baynhani skated
in and -lumped the puck into -a -cor--
ner of the net.
That gave Mohawks the lead and
a big boost.
Frank Janicek matched Baynhain's-
goal at 10:55, but with less than
three minutes to play, Gates found
the mark on a pass from Kris Bed-
ard to win the game.
on my own."
"With this life, you arc alone a
lot and you gct kind of accustomed
to it. if I depended on Davc too
much I'd be miserable because he's
not around that much."
And then there's New York. Just
one more adjustment, more or less.
But for Trish it's a big one.
Comfortable in Quebec, she found
Ncw York City a cultural shock
when they arrived.-- it's something
she hasn't quite overcome.
•
"Quebec has a lot of history and
the people aren't as uptight, " she
observes. "The people (in Ncw
York) arc always on the go. You
get caught upin it and it's hard to
relax."
Then there is the poverty and the
crime which is all around, if not in
their immediate neighbourhood.
With a subtle nite of homesick-
ness in her voice, Trish admits that
she is looking forward to spending
the summer in clear, quiet St. Jo-
seph, Ontario.
LEFT BEHIND - Mooretown Cbmets Mark Mullen and a team mate are left
behind in the corner by Kevin Konnings during the third game in the Hardy
Cup Series. Comets were left behind by the entire Exeter team Friday night
when Mohawks clinched the series.
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A Canadian dream
Dreams of playing in the NEIL 4:(X) p.m. -- Dave gets up and
arc as common as hockey sticks has d pre -game snack -- usually
ih most Canadian towns. There coffee and toast. By this time,
aren't too many kids who haven't the nerves arc starting to kick
thought about what it would be in.
like to skate out in front of the 5:00 p.m. -- Back across the
home crowd at Maple Leaf Gar- street, players start filing into
dens, or the Forum in Montreal. the dressing room to prepare for
In fact, I'm sure there arc a few the game. The atmosphere is
adults who daydream about subdued. A radio plays quietly.
jumping off the bench and racing 6:00 p.m. -- Michel Bergeron
three -abreast into the other gives the Rangers a run-down of
team's zone from time to time. the team they arc facing that
The truth is that approximate- night. They watch video tape of
ly one percent of all those their opponent's power play and
dreamers ever make it to -the penalty killing. After Bergeron's
NHL. • address, the players get chatty
When I mct Dave Shaw in and start verbally "psyching up"
New York, I wanted to find out for the game.
what a game day was like for the 7:15 p.m. -- Skate out onto
Rangers, so I asked him to do a the ice for warm-ups. More skat-
run-down. Compare it with your ing and goalie preparation.
schedule and see if it stacks up 7:30 p.m. -- They play the Na -
against your dreams. - tional anthem and the New York
10:30 a.m. -- Players have to - Rangers skate out in front of
be at Madison Square Gardens more than 17,000 scrcaming
for an 11:30 skate. For many of fans.
the players, Dave included, that 1 asked Dave if he had prob-
mcans a 45 minute drive through Isms with nerves before a game,
New York traffic. r and he explained that the big
11:30 a.m. -- On the ice for build-up prior to every game
warm-ups. Players prepare goal- gives him trouble.
ies and do some skating. "You're nervous until you gct
1:00 p.m. -- The Rangers on the icc," he told me. "You've
gather for a team meal which is got all day to think about it.
rich in carbohydratcs.-Try to im- You probably wouldn't be so
agine that table -- set for 35 big, nervous if you did something
hungry guys.- Heaped with plates else (before the game)."
of pasta, steak and chicken. I * . a, *
gained five pounds just thinking It struck me while i was there
' about it. that a professional hockey player
2:00 p.m. -- The Rangers hcad works nights. If -a game ends at
up to their hotel rooms which 10:30 p.m., Davc isn't likely to -
the team books before every get home until after midnight. -
home game. The hotel is located And you don't have that week -
across the street from the Gar- end to look forward to either.
dens. Players try to catch a nap Hockey players work weekends.
so they arc well rested for the Davc estimates that he has 10
evening's events. (i thought of free days over the course of.the
suggesting a T -A team meal and season. He does, however, point
the hotel room bit to Jim Beck- out that there's a lot of free time
ett, but (•decided he wouldn't go in the summer.
for it. He's on a health kick.)
•
f
r
"It's tough to get used to. Some trails off and Trish picks up the
days it just feels like we play 80 thought.
-away games." "You have to prepare yourself,"
The celebrity status of hockey she concludes.
players is also reduced on the streets Asked if drugs are a problem in
in New York because of the sheer hockey circles, Shaw relies on his
number of people. own experiences.
"In Quebec, we'd go to a shop- No one I play with has done
ping mall and people would know drugs," he maintains: "No one that I
us," Shaw says, noting they arc know of. I have heard of guys that
rarely recognized in public now. do drugs, but that's the case with
"It probably has its good points most jobs. There's always going to
and its bad points. You like to be be a person who has drugs."
recognized -the odd time, but not all Shaw explains that, compared to
the time." professional baseball or football,
While the atmosphere outside the hockey players have relatively low
rink has become more hostile for salaries (the average salary for
the transplanted Canadians, life with players in the NHL is $100,000 per
the Rangers has been pleasant.- year). And drug habits tend to be
Shaw's relationship with head coach very expensive.
Michel Bergeron has thawed consid- 'There aren't too many parties,"
erably since their arrival in New he says of hockey social life. "You
York. have_to stay low-keyed. When we're
-Bergeron was tough on Shaw in " on the road we'll go out to a bar,
Quebec last year when the defence- but so do most people."
man came down with mononucteo- "Your job is your life," adds
sis, and though he is still pushing Trish. "It's everything you do. You
for results in New York, he has can't just go downtown at night and
changed his tactics. The new ap- live it up because you know it af-
proach seems to be boosting Shaw's fects your game. Everything is cen-
confidence rather than tearing it tered around hockey."
down. The couple is looking forward to
And then there is the difference in a summer in Ontario; away from
general managers. the tension and rampant crime also- -
Nordiquc GM Maurice Filion was ciated with New York.
inaccessible compared to New York Shaw, by nature shy and reserved,
GM Phil Esposito. never feels like the local hero he has
"The only time I ever saw himbecome to many in the Exeter area.
(Filion) was when 1 was going to "I really look forward to going
be sent down or called up, Shaw back (to Southern Ontario) and
. says. "I talked to him maybe 10 then, after the first week :the thrill
minutes in five years." - is sortof worn off after you sec eve -
Shaw is full of admiration for Es- rybody, he comments.
posito. - At times, his celebrity status in
"Hc likes to be around the the area makes him uncomfortable.
players. If you have a good game, When Shaw meets people on the
he'llbe one of the guys that'll come street, family, friends and various
up and tell you -- say that you're interests arc forgotten. Their conver-
ptaying well and what -not" cation always turns to hockey.
"It's frustrating sometimes. I like
Out of the fast -lane being recognized, but when I sec
After the streets of Manhattan, the people, all they want to talk about
Shaw's tastefully decorated two bed- is hockey. That's their main concern
room condominium in Harrison is -- they want to know all about
like a breath of normalcy. There are hockey.
no signs of the big -bucks, fast- "I find it very difficult some -
paced life you might expect a pro- times," he says. "I guess people
fessional hockey player and his prct- just want to know."
ty wifc to lead.
Home from a night's work against * * *
Washington Capitals, Norton, a Shaw has been signing auto -
beautiful Labrador Retriever, meets graphs, chatting lightly and posing
them at the door. Shoes come off, for pictures for 10 minutes or more
slippers go on and David Letterman and there is little to indicate that the
soon smirks from the TV. small crowd is losing interest.
The fast life of professional ath- A teenaged boy, decked out in a
letcs begins to look mythical and. Rangers' sweater and carrying an au -
Ontario -doesn't seem so far a way. tographcd hockey stick, spots me
"A lot of people think that we and breaks away from the crowd. He
have a lot of money," Shaw says. still suspects that I'm, employed by
"We've played for four years and we the Rangers:
have a car and a cottage paid for." When 1 finally explain why I. was
Trish breaks in, reminding him slinking through a closed amuse -
that what they have is a lot. ment park with Dave Shaw, he asks
,. „
[ know it is, Shaw continues, me to take a picture of him, a sea-
hut a tot of people think: 'Hcy, he soned and loyal fan, with the New
plays in the NHL -- hes got a mil- York defenceman.
lion bucks in the bank.' It's not like Then he quietly confides: "Aw,
that. We're comfortable at the time, y'know, I think Dave Shaw is the
but when hockey's done ..." he best player the Rangers have got."
Trish Shaw:
Independent,
Continued from page lA
matter. Though Davc is 'rarely in-
volved in the boxing matches spat-
tered throughout the league, when
he docs get into a fight, it's hard for
his wife to take.
"I 'don't like it when anyone fights
on the team, let alone Dave. 1 just
sort of watch out of the corner of
my eye and turn my head and hope
to God he gets through it," Trish
explains. I don't think it's some-
thing you'll ever get used to -- it's
always going to be upsetting."
Often alone.
Because 40 of the 80 games
played over the course of the season
.:.are played on foreign ice, Trish
finds herself alone on a regular ba-
sis. But, self-sufficient and self-
assured, the long stretches without"
Dave don't fizzle her.
"i don't mind it when they go (on
road -trips). I don't like the five day
road trips -- those are kind of hard `--
but the shorter trips arc nice because
you get to do the things yoti enjoy
doing," Trish says. "1 enjoy beine
self-assured
any time.
-"Our backs were against the wall
and -you've -rot to -show some class
and this hockey club has some
class," an elated Guenther said after
his second win of the series.
"We aren't used to playing their
style of hockey. We're used to .a
more" open style. They forced a
more 'grind -em' style and we. had to
adjust."
The coach was already looking
forward to the frnal game, -however:
"You can't take anything away
. from that hockey team (Comets).
You know they're not going to let
up"
Mohawks took a 2-0 lead in the
first period on the strength of goals
by John Kernick and Dale Gibbon,
but Moorctown overpowered the
home team in the second, scoring
four goals,- two of them unan-
swered:
Kernick and Bill Glover provided
the 4-4 tic in the second with single
goals. •
Barry Baynharn put the edge back
on Mohawks blades at 8:59 of the
final period when he came off the
bench and found himself alone at_
centre ice. Picking up a pass from
Paul Kalbflcisch, Baynhani skated
in and -lumped the puck into -a -cor--
ner of the net.
That gave Mohawks the lead and
a big boost.
Frank Janicek matched Baynhain's-
goal at 10:55, but with less than
three minutes to play, Gates found
the mark on a pass from Kris Bed-
ard to win the game.
on my own."
"With this life, you arc alone a
lot and you gct kind of accustomed
to it. if I depended on Davc too
much I'd be miserable because he's
not around that much."
And then there's New York. Just
one more adjustment, more or less.
But for Trish it's a big one.
Comfortable in Quebec, she found
Ncw York City a cultural shock
when they arrived.-- it's something
she hasn't quite overcome.
•
"Quebec has a lot of history and
the people aren't as uptight, " she
observes. "The people (in Ncw
York) arc always on the go. You
get caught upin it and it's hard to
relax."
Then there is the poverty and the
crime which is all around, if not in
their immediate neighbourhood.
With a subtle nite of homesick-
ness in her voice, Trish admits that
she is looking forward to spending
the summer in clear, quiet St. Jo-
seph, Ontario.
LEFT BEHIND - Mooretown Cbmets Mark Mullen and a team mate are left
behind in the corner by Kevin Konnings during the third game in the Hardy
Cup Series. Comets were left behind by the entire Exeter team Friday night
when Mohawks clinched the series.
GEORGE GODBULT CLU
RRSPs
Personal
* RRIF's
* Annuities
* Mortgage Insurance
'* Creditor Term
* Business Insurance
WAYNE RATZ
and Group
* Investment Funds _
* Group Life & Health
* Disability Insurance
* GiC's -30 days to 5 years.
• Life Insurance
GODBOLT INSURANCE AGENCY LTD.
DEVON BUILDING
EXETER, ONTARIO
235-2740
Agent for Mutual L Ile of Canada & Mutual Investco Inc.
RUNNING LATE
EXTENDED RRSP HOURS
CIBC, 44 Thames Rd., Exeter '
Open Sat., February 27 - 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.
For RRSP business only
5 year guaranteed rate - 10.25%*
• Subject to change. Interest compounded annually
S.' even it \-'ti're flouting late. there is
still time to invest in the C 11ti 1thti1'
that\ right tor you.
'At ailabl, at all but a k x remote branches, and may be restricted 10 January 2— Fr binary 29. 198h
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