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•- By Rod Kitts
Leafs hopes are fading
The National Hockey League regular
season is winding down and with it the
Ttironto Maple Leafs chances of making the
playoffs.
Toronto presently occupies the basement
of the Norris Division and trails a playoff
position by seven points, Time is running out
on the withering Leafs as the have only 13
oarnes remaining.
Why should .they make the playoffs this
season? The answer is simple. They
•shouldn't. The team stinks! If the Toronto
Maple Leafs could keep up their present
•pace of losing hockey games, 1hey might
have a shot at 21st place -and aechanc.e_ tee__
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claim the number one draft choice next
season.
Forget the fact the drooping Maple Buds
have the worst defensive record in the
league. Forget the fact the Leafs rank 18th
on the league's 21 -team, ladder. Forget the
fact, the tearnbaS-anowrier WM) belongs in a --
'comic strip. Forget all the above facts and
one may find a glimmer of respectibility in
the Leafs' roster.
One Leaf bright spot may become a mere,
burned out disposable contract. Goaltender
AllanBester has sparkled through most of
his 29 games with the Leafs this season.
Don't. let his inflated 4.15 goals -against
average fool you. It's not easy for a
goaltender to sparkle with 40 or more shots a
game on him. It's also not easy for a team to
win games while allowing that many shots
on goal. ( The Leafs are living proof.) If
Bester continues to be exposed to the
•bombardment he is presently receiving in
the Leaf nets, he should sue the team for non
support.
Being a truerblue Maple Leaf fan these
days is abont as much fun as a case of
hemorrhoids, Turn on the tube and watch
the "Paper Leafs" get shredded. They
usually play with the same enthusiasm as a
paper leaf.
Anyway their 22-37-8 record is looked at, it
still comes out the same way lousy and last
in their division.
My Oct..5 prediction of the Leafs -finishing
ti.the-.NodjviSiOfladthg4UCk1Y
aro generou.X. The pfecliction mas
made on the wild presumption that the -Lab
would perform with a grain of consistency.
Instead the team has played.the second half
of the season on a par with the Pittsburg
Penguins.
Perhaps if the • Leafs battled their
opposition; - with halt the shown to the journalistic creations of the
Toronto Globe and Mail, they would stand a
better chance.
At this point in the season the Leafs
playoff season appears to be nothing but a
grand illusion. If through some sort of
miracle the Leafs do qualify for the playoffs,
this reporter will be surprised. I'm sure at
this point even the Leafs would be
surprised!
Junior C draw winner
Clarence Denomme of Clinton won last
Friday night's Junior C $100 draw.
• Novice A's down Seaforth
Seaforth Novice, A hosted Clinton on
Sunday and were defeated 3-0.
In the first period Seaforth held Clinton off
the scoreboard.
• Early in the second period Clinton's
Jonathon Hugill slammed in a pass from
Danny Wildfong. Shortly after Danny
Wildfong broke away and scored unassisted.
The third period brought another goal for
Clinton. Early in the period Lee Gibbings
scoring assisted by Mark Livermore.
Clinton Novice hosted Seafortlt February
•••• .27thandcarrie up with a 27.2- tie.
•• A good game was playedll players• .
Seaforth's first goal came when Scott
Clinton Atoms s
Jervis scored assisted by Ty Papple and
Mike Coyne.
Moments later, Clinton came back and
tied up the score. Lee Gibbings scored
assisted by Mark Livermore. There was no
scoring in the second period.
The third period brought two more goals.
Three minutes into the third period Mark
Livermore scored unassisted.
• With only three minutes. left in the third,
Seaforth's- Thomas Wheatly scored the
tieing goal. Seaforth goalie John Moylan
• came .up with some beautiful saves-as-there-
weremany shots on goal.
Clint..*'.:
By Rod HMS •
Approximately $530 was raised for Mlle
fibrosis last Friday night when the Clinton'
Kinsmen and the gluten Junior C Mastangs
battledin acharity hoekey$14te.
The Anita Cis rallied notlitwo goals litho
final two minutes to salvage a 5-0' draw
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• Robbie Wade, a GOderiChpangster with
igystig, fibrosis, opened the game by
.,;40.101Pg the luck between. Ktnaman
President Harvey Carter and Mustangs'
Captain Tom Smith The night. wan OM a
plit with Exeter
This past weekend saw the Clinton Atoms
split weekend gaines with the Exeter Atom
• Hawks. On Saturday _night at the Clinton
Con-ummity Centre, Jaw Fleet led the
Atom attack scoring six goals as Clinton
downed Exeter by an 8 - 5 count.
Exeter broke out on top scoring the first
two goals, but Clinton battled back With two
of their own, before the first period ended to
even up the score at 2 - 2. e
Jason Heywood and Fred Godbolt scored
• for Exeter while, Jason Fleet notched both
Clinton goals. .
In the second period, Gavin Hunter gave
Clinton a .3 - 2 lead with assists going to
• Jason Fleet and Jason Carter. Scott
• Rathwell, Clinton's smooth skating
defenceman, gave Clinton a 4 - 2 lead at 4:23'
with Scott Jewitt and John Bezaire gaining
assists. •
• A minutelater, Jason Fleet scored his hat -
trick goal with a blazing slapshot to give
Clinton a 5. -_2 advantage–Gavin I:hinter and
Matt Townsend, helped set up the goal.
Clinton's Jason Fleet and Exeter's Jason
Heywood traded unassisted goals late in the
second period to leave Clinton with a & - 3
lead after two periods.
In the third period each .team dented the
twine twice. Clinton's goals came off the
Legion
to compete
tn dart tourney
By Cliff Parker
CLINTON - On Feb. 28 there were 14
tables of euchre, in play at the Clinton
L,egiOn. High scorers were Gary Alexander
and Ed Bezaire both with 90. JOe Whalen
had the lone hand score of 6 and the low
score was 44 by Pat McMahon.
OJII March 1 in darts, the high couple was
Isobel McClure and Rick Godfrey. The
ladies' high score was Karen Greydanus
with 120. The men's high score with 140 was
John Greidanus. The low couple score was
Joyce Cook and Merve Ritchie.
The winner of Bingo was Mrs. Tony Hart-
man of Goderich.
On March 14 at 8:30 there Will be a leader-
ship seminar and everybody is welcome to
attend.
The annual mixed dart tournament will be
held at the Exeter Legion on March 17. This
is for the Carling O'Keefe trophy.
On March 2 the Ladies Auxiliary Euchre
was improved to six tables, but there could
be more attendance at these functions. High
hands were Blanche Deeves and Harold
Black. Lone hands Minlue Rumball and
Eric Switzer. Low scores Marg Trevena and
Vera Colquhotin. Next.Friday the ladies will
sponsor Cribbage.
The Legion donated $250 to help support
Brad Lyon - who has been chosen this year
to participate in the Forurie for Young Cana-
dians. This Forurn is an independent, non-
profit charitable organization incorporated
m 1975. Each year it brings to Ottawa 400 16
and 17.year old high school students from all
across Canada. The purpose is one week in-
tensive study of the processes of Govern-
nt.
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stick of Jason Fleet while Exeter's goals
came off the stick of Mike Clay.
Exeter. 6 —Clinton 1
Back in Exeter on Sunday afternoon at the
South Huron Community Centre the Exeter
Atom Hawks gained revenge by trimming
the Clinton Atoms by a 6,-4 score.
Clinton' opened up the scoring by a goalby
Shaun Chepchase. 'After taking passes from
Scott Rathwell and Scott Jewitt, Chepchase
split the defence and scored on a twenty -foot
wrist shot high to the right hand corner.
The teams played scoreless hockey in the
second period but the roof caved in on Clin-
ton goalie, Darren. Stevenson in the third
period as Exeter scored six unanswered
goals. . •
Jason Heywood paced the Exeter attack
With a 'hat trick while Jason Hern, James
• Ahrens and Mark Russell added the singles.
This weekend on Saturday, March 10, the
Atoms will take on the 'Goderich Atoms.
Game time is 5:45 p.m.
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special one for Robby as he celebrated his the Kinsmen's strategies , in the second
ninth birthday. • period intermission.
The hockey WO featured 110 body "Do you notice how they keep changing
contact, no slapshota and unusual period the rules as then go alOng? Find there wase
WOW, The first, Iod wag 15 minutes *palpate period then there was a, 10 -
minutes and the final frame 15 minutes minute Vire period," PAL wiggins cracked.
long, the sessnite- was Sinsrtened to 10 *note _r`Period. Next they'll want a five -
in duraton. The Clinthn Figure Skating club
enterrained the croVkl with a Parade of
Champions, in between periods,• Pie eyed
The thild period left kinsmen player Bob
• Zimmer literally pie -faced. While facing -off
Kin show their stuff
The first period was clearly dominated by on
deep in Mustang territory, a young lady
the well-preserved Kinsmen as they dashed to the tee and greeted Zhnrn with a
outskated and outSetired the Juniors 2-0. whipped cream pie in the face.
The Mustangs,. Ire* to within one goal at
Greg "Gretzky" Bairns set-up the first the 1.0 -minute -marb as Tom "Dimmer"
Kinsmen goal as be ',exploded around the Smith connected. Smith scooped up a 20 -foot
Mustangs' defense and fed a perfect pass to rebound off the post and slapped it past a
Ken "Fluff" Daer. Deer made no mistake as shocked Gump wilson.
he blasted a snapshot past the blocker of ThelYfustangs tiedthe score minutes later
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Clinton Mustangs Coach Bob Zimmer received a pie in the face while playing against his
team last Friday night. The camera caught a surmised Zimmer with the evidence on his
face, shortly after a young woman dashed on to the ice with the pie in band. Zimmer and
the Kinsmen crew battled the Mustangs to a 5-5 tie. (Rod Hilts photo)
covice_win_
On February 18, Clinton Minor Hockey
Day, Goderich visited and lost'7-2.
Early in the first Mark Livermore shot
one past. Jamie Redmond assisted by Scott
Shaddick. Again Clinton showed their power •
with Shane MacDonald scoring assisted by
Danny Wildfong.
The second period brought a total of five
goals.
. The first one came with Danny Wildfong
scoring assisted by Chris Kennedy and
Nathan Burns. Mark Livermore scored the
second goal of the second period assisted by
Lee Gibbings and Shane MacDonald.
Goderich got on the scoreboard towards
the end of the second, scoring was Mike
McBride assisted by Steve Hogan.
• Nathan Burns made a quick shot from
Danny Wildfong and Chris Kennedy. Lee
Gibbings scoring the " final , goal for the
second period assisted by Mark Livermore.
and Shane MacDonald.
The third period brought another goal for
Goderich, scored by Andrew Scott assisted
by Donald Rivers and Bryan Hodges.
The final goal came when Scott Shaddick
broke away and scored unassisted.
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excitment of the gamOvith some interesting to the corner.
penalty calls. The Kinsmen were nabbed in
the early minutes of the contest for
"delaying the game". In fact, what they
were called for was not having enough
players on the ice. Minutes later, "Bright
Gretzky Burns came close to scoring
seconds later when he burst through the
Mustangs' defense and was alone on Cronin.
Just as. Burns prepared to shoot, he went
head over heels into the net. Later he
eyes" penalized -Mustang-David Wright -for elaun-01 he sktdded-onwme-otthere-that - ---
"squeezing" the puck. Zinuner had received.
Encouraging shouts' of "Come on blue" With 9:33 left to play, the Mustangs
from Kinsmen Coach Jim "Burk" Burkhart received a bench minorfor verbally abusing
ignited his troops into scoring a second goal. referee Bright eyes Flynn. In showing their
Mark "Sparkie" Jenkins scored the goal displeasure with the call, the Mustangs sent
when he slammed home a loose puck in the back-up goalie Beaner into the box to serve
slot, through the pads of Beaner. the penalty.
The Mustangs came on late in the period
and Len "Gump" Wilson was worthy to the
test, as he kicked out a half-dozen good
scoring opportunities. Perhaps his biggest
save of the period came with a minute left
when he kicked out a Daryl Madge shot from
point-blank range.
Following the opening period, acting
Mustangs' Coach Bryan Marriage seemed
confident despite being down 2-0.
. "We're going to wear them down. We
wanted them to look good in front of the
hometown fans beforethey tire," he said.
Mustang Manager Wayne Wiggins
seemed surprised with the Kinsmen's
performance. "They're playing well
considering their age," he joked.
Where's Zimmer?
When asked what he thought of the
performance of Mustang Head Coach Bob
"Zim" Zimmer, who was Playing for the
Kinsmen, Mr. Wiggins said, "Was he out
there?"
The Kinsmen's Danny"Leafer"
1,1nusual goal
The Kinsmen capitalized on the
powerplay opportunity with a controversial
goal. After it appeared that Cronin had
gloved a shot from Harvey "Pres" Carter,
referee Flynn signified that it was a goal.
Burns drew an assist on the "goal".
The fun continued_as referee Robin
Thompson was given two minutes for
missing an offside.
The action heated tip as the Mustangs
started to attack in the final five minutes of
the game. Wilson stoned the juniors on three
straight drives. After he made the third
save, defenseman Doug "Sid" Macaulay
came to his rescue and pounced on the loose
puck. The officials awarded Brad
Armstrong a penalty shot because of Sid's
valiant effort in the crease. Armstrong
raced hi and deked Gump out of his
underwear and slid the puck into the net.
Bob Zimmer shot the Kinsmen into the
' lead as he jammed in a puck at the side of
_Colquhonn made an interesting pre -game • the net. Leafer .Colquhoun and Chipper
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comment. "I can skati-eifela aititid-bilif . __Chipchase assisted on the goal. . ..... _. e. ..... _ .—...... '
of them (juniors). I know I can, I coached . Brent "Bezzer" Daw tied the game up as
some of them in midget. ru get at least two • he let, a bullet -like wrist shot go that beat
goals," the Lear stated. . ‘,. „ . •
.. , Wilson high tothe glove side.
• Although ,b‘ .1 -failed" 4 tO " 'SC we,,, +Mr. r: Penalties almost cost the Mustangs' in thn;:
Colquhoun and linemates Bob Zimmer and closing minutes of the game. Kevin "Chink" .,
Bill "Chipper" Chipchase were the most Lee was given a boarding penalty and
' visible offensive threat for the Kinsmen. Wayne Smith picked up an unsportsman-
The second period saw the Mustangs hit like penalty. The Kinsmen put on some
the scoreboard as ,Katimavik-recruit John intense pressure but failed to capitalize. .
Quinn scored. The ex -member of the Junior "We saw them (Kinsmen) give thereferee
B Charland Rebels drilled a low wrist shot • money," said Mr. Wiggins after the game.
through a maze of players, beating Wilson Coach Marriage thought the juniors
between the pads. • should have won. "Other than the goal the
The pace picked up following the goal and referees gave them, we should have won."
both goaltenders were forced to come up Kinsmen centreman Brian "Sly"
with some big saves. Pat "the Barbarian" Kennedy was visibly winded after the fast -
Cronin; replaced Beaner in the Mustangs' paced game. "I have to work on my
goal midway through the period and came backchecking," he said.
up- with some sparkling saves. His biggest "It was a heck of a good game. I'm glad it
save came when he divedat a shot to deflect ended in a tie. For a bunch .of oldtimers we
a shot that was redirected at the lastminute. played well," Bob Zimmer said.
Moments after Cronin's big save, Gretzky “The kids bad a lot of fun. It was a good
Burns increased the Kinsmen lead to two outing.. It's something the community
Igoalwhen he slammed in ashot from the should have," Zimmer added.
slot. Organizer Sid Macaulay said he hopes the
The Mustangs coaching staff were leery of hockey game become an annual event.
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