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GOD1i:R1CH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1987 -PAGE lA
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Season's
Pass
Sailors play
aggressively
in deadlock
fast -paced, end-to-end
Junior C hockey game was
played in, Goderich Sunday
afternoon', with no winner
decided. Goderich, behind.
the two -goal performance of
center Todd Graham (above,
left-)'—tied—the visit ing
Wingham Ironmen 4-4, to
snap the Sailors' 10 -game los-
ing streak.' The game
featured hard hits=(left) and
tight checking (below) by
both teams. The Sailors led
_3-1•_after one. period, only to
see the Ironmen tie the score
at three before the middle
period ended. (photos by An
= dy Bader);
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Andy Bader
It's the
Leafs Report
Card time
+It'S 1flidway through anutht'r National
Hockey, League season, and the jury i
,till- out- on - the= improved= play= of = the-"
Toronto Maple Leafs. It's' report card
tints, as the first semester draws t(1 a
close. •
Easily the best p• layer the 1.i'afs have
had the .entire season has been centre
Russ ('our•tnall-the lad with the blazing a
speed,. (:'uur'tnall, at this writing. leads
the club with his 16 goals, 22 assists in 35
gaintcs and a plus4. Not bad for babe in
awadling clothes.
('ourtnall leads the team and incluse to
' . the league lead in shorthanded goals with
4•'• four. His breakaway speed is `
unbelievable Lind-now-that-he-ean-shunt-'
the•puck AND hit the net with it snakes.
his shot one of thti hardest and deadly ay-
' , curate in the ga t,ne today. Courtnall gets
an A`irl nmy book, beeausethe still forgets
° to play defence, e,very nuw•,ar>.d again;
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Two players with an A- rating include
defencenlen Borje •$alining ane; Chris :
Kotsopoulos. 13.4.. when he's not: hurt,
a can turn-on-his-athletic-ability_and.shfne
' for a string of , games, but then he can
`wander into never-never land for a feW !,.
contests. He's the boost European player 1
ever to play the game in the N111, as far• 1
• as I'm concerned. `
• KOtsi (or Kotstopolus as'Harry Neaile
s.. arid' Don Cherry call hints; has been
steady cirrthe,blueline and he's riot afraiid
to throw_his_weight around --one of the. ;
• few who does i•n the Leaf end of the rink
'1'he,,hig guy,:I,also got it pair of'goalls and
aSsists':and a plus -1, which tsn:.t tooda
bad for a guy 'nobody l including the ,
—•-Leafs)• wanted priorto' the' start: of the_
' - > year. ,
A solid t3-plus•player ,for the Leafs has '!
'been rookie Vincent Damphiiusse. Vince:' F
is: excellent with the puck, arid''he seems
to get; btter' each and -every -game-•
Eleven goals halfway through the year r.
,_ain't olio for a `19-year=old rookie. ado
•1a
`jiisting;to a new atmosphere. in'1-logtowln. ;.
-;=The'kid can only improve._ •� '
Other 137.plus play'ers:,at ,this juncture
'11 1'om-Fergus;-Rick_La1uz, Gt:ega _e ,
'region, Mike Allison and Allan Bester.
-' Fergus started,.thc year off- incredibly
fast, but -he iiled-off-considerablit(
point. where he was benched..It.was'
ti. discovered later that he has some,sor't of .•
.illness. but°when he's cured, he's a solid
- •'i_centreman.who can definitely help the
Leafs the resti)f the way.- Put it this way , •
they're better with hint than without bin:
Lanz"has been, on the team for a dozen `.
games or so, but he. has proved that he ,r ti • "y '
• cop -handle .the.puck.and.shoot.it«'ithethc' a
best of' thein -it's too tough right OW to
� give ` 011 accurate report, but, it looks
° .. •pl'orlliSing,
"l'erriinG the typical underachiever,
works his butt off each and.`every game. -
You have to like that in 0 player. Terrien 1 •
• " is 0 vigil penalty killer. and when he does
get on the ice, he's a typical s ---disturber, •�
an'integral_part of any successful tear!),
i -f a he scored more, or had better tuck
around 'the, net, he'd be a 'definite. A
player: "
Allison is,rnuch like Ter'rion, versatile .
.,nil, -as Neale said earlier this season, he
' kind of .grows on you. If he could SCOre•
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Graham" scores. twice
in 4-4 `tiewith Wingham
The Goderich Sailors played the Wingham , • -I-
Ironmen to a 4-4 tie in OHA Junior C hockey Hawks defeat Sailors
here Sunday, as Todd Graham notched a corhu;himn,:rr'�
Pair of goals in the deadlock, snapping the
Walkerton 8, (;oderich:l •
• FIN Period•.- '
Sailors'.10-game losing streak. I w�t.la;lrrri� rtr+n,•r. Scott Becker, Ern/ no
The game provided lots of excitement for 2 T�'t>I•hl?li'1•r1N'f`r',li. li: rel} liirdl,•t•,,n"'a?itl!'
a 1C:11,K1•:li'1'i tN i;u•r11er, scot( +`oil � � Sys•
the good-sized crowd and the result helped 10)1/ (1(•11 Him land, Ii+rh 1 .rr:d,:nn. I , i5 :'l,
make up for a disappointing 8-3 Sailor loss
Friday night to Walkerton
Second Period
5 WAI,KI•:li'I(IN thriller. 5ri,ii )Zeltler, lealtef :,,nl
I; WAI.Kr•a;'I't W'lrttli•r, sol• � uiri.,+sh•il';_i :8
The Sailors came out strong in the first_;,;c)nF:Iit(,II I;r:hm.Tl,d,ls,l;)hh,;n.;,8 iii,1,1, ,
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period Sunday,• jumping into a 3-1 lead on 8 WALK i 111(IN t;n•,uer, tic;')ti r.,u,;i'. (t,•(1 81 ,,It,
goals by Chris Sideris, Darren Doak and a I) 4vAl.KF:itTt1N Matt..c her,,ettler• r12.21
Third 1 rind ,
single by Graham after Steve Nicholson had in GOnr;lo(n „ham 7,4:„ ,nt,:+m, 'r','1ndi,c•
ore 1
-scored 'n the first minute for the ironmen ii 'i', per
-Scott- Garrow continues,
to shine in St. Marys
Goderich native Scott Garrow has
made a fine first impression on the St.
Marys Junior B Lincolns as well as the
= entire Western Junior B League in this
his rookie season with the high -flying Jr.
'.. B club. `
Garrow was named the Lincoln Payer
of the Month for December and he com-
peted in the annual Western Junior B-AII-
star game in Windsor this past Saterday.
Garrow scored • a .eat -in the Eas;'s.12-5.
victory, and he continties to impress all
h ro
•
with his improved playa.
Garrow, as of December 15, has played -
24 league .games and has recorded 19
gogls and added 18'hssists for 37 points.
He has 40 penalty minutes, a pair of
power play goals and one shorthanded
marker thus far this season.
The Lincolns; with the help 'of such
young plalyers•at Garrow; are enjoying marvelous season with a 24-4-3 record
this4 -fob 51 poi :,, seven ahead of.
the seeccidplace f •l�iamlfin`+7�'-""
r
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Win hme back with -two t1-w'A1.KF:ItTciNzone!,..n,ei%inl1,(;rrdh•r,181(1.,11
isam ca1 ZALIl Mttil Ila- i, w,+lk,rt n• 71,
(;nderich•. 13
unanswered goals tnmthe second period as (0),TI•;NI)I:ILS Walkerton. F';,r•rell, I':mi. i;nderich-
.Iamie'Robinson and Dan Gilchrist, the tat- Gaynor, Hood% r ,...,
ter on a.power play, found the net behind ,
Goderich goalie Handy_Gaynor. ., ..- ` . ''The Blackhawks'_ Scott Girdler= had: four scenario._ " , <
The Sailors took the lead at the 8:29 mark goals for the winners while three of the Thomas 'is ''is much 1i e. Vaive, he can -
of the final period'when Graham, the offert-' Walkerton goals cane with their team play- • shoot a pea out of its pod, but he tends to
sive spark plug of the home team, scared on,
ing shorthanded ;float on defense and take the odd good and
udd night
a pass from Daryl Madge. However; the The Sailors nett ganienis at hoose Friday off as well. When, he's on hes
hire often, he'd be a first stringer for ,
sure,. • I
' Rester is easily the leafs' best
. goaltender this scason-'Called up early•in
• the, campaign, Rester has shone. ailnu)st '•
every wane and, in my opinion, should he
•
the first -stringer ahead of lncunlbenl
Ken,Wregget. t3ester_s 2,71 goals against
average is solid, and he continues to im-
, prove. if only he were''a little bigger,,.,
Players with '13 rankings thus jar ire
..elude Rick Valve, Steve'I'honis, Wendel
( lark. Gary 1',i4rman-and-Terry-Johnson, •
VaiiVe, after a slow stat;t, has started.to
pick things up. but -he tends tO take nights
off, and the Leafs' can ill' afford that
Ironmen: tied'-thescore'three minutes -later -night-at-8:30-p:m-against-the-first-place-. -an-important-cog-in-the.i,eafs;_rnachinc,_i
on a deflection by Doug 'McFarlan that 1-ianoVer Barons. The two teams have. but When he's off, he's useless.
trickled past• Gaynor. Gaynor had a strong mirror-image" records, w•ith'the Barons . Clark is, Veil, Wendel -Clark. 'l'he Bran ,;'1'
game in net for the locals, a t�g for a having lost only one game while the Sailors
rough start Friday when W< o scored have,only one sun tp go_with their four ties in
on their first three chances. 20 games, .
The Sailors had the edge. in play in the The Sailors are hoping to gain' some'
final minutes Sunday and had several good respectability' by playing ad good .44a me
chances to win, but had to settle for the tie. against the powerful Barons.After their good' showing•in•their-2-1 loss to
Walkerton a week ago, the Sailors had ,
hoped for more success against the
Blackhawks Friday, but instead hacj a game , Sailors scoring stats ;
when nothing went right. The locals were .
_
otftscored'3-1 in the first period and 4-1 in the
second but got it together enough in the final ' hha"15;,{;r•`Is r •
frame to match the Blackhawks at one -goal T+xlr1(;r:,ttam
apiece. bin Bean 11.
Rich_Rowland,_Todd_Graham and John 1r,,nluad,;r ,-,r
rrvor Erb'
Graham were the marksmen for 'the home Tim Itrrhl
s tlad, TTrevor Marlin
q Darren D1iak
Wayne Niven'
1)a rrell Dorm))
1101)6I1Mms
Bruce Culbert
Pete W,Ilems i.
Graham =scores twice
Scoring Summary
Goderich 4, Wingham 4
First Period
1 W1NGRAM Nicholson, Steve r('ameron) 0,12
2 GODER1('11 Sidewise Chris 13 : Martin) 7,21 1 pp 1 .Inhn Graham
3 Gol)ER1CII Doak, Darren'3 r.iiieht,'15 31'1 pp i)at'i l)nncan
4 GODF:R1c'll Graham, Todd 4 'Mehl, S,deris 1 18 ,19 RB
) ron ow man
Second Period , ' ,.Richard Bnd l ,,
- - & yyI�,NNGI,AM Robinson, Jamie j array, Rrnw•n i1 5.1 ,Tom-lican_,
R W`iN(,IIAM ¢ilehrist, Dan It','iestap1.19:27 On i. K.",In.Trlrnrll
Third Period Ken Ruff
7 GGDFfi1('11(;raham, Todd 5 i Madge, 8.29 „ • Todd Jeffrey'
8 WiNOIIAM McFarlan, Dave !Goodall) 10,05 iscones} Gaynor
PENALTY MINUTESWingham• 35, GofeNl h 43 Matthew Morris
GOAI,TENDI;R3• Wingham- Braun, :Mitch: Goirrirh• Gang Erb
Gaynor, Randy ,
,N'=11
v\. _1'
A „11� i I
iA • 1 s i^ J .ln.30111S(111has stamped lately., -lately., -but when ,
he gets the ice time, he's preIty solid in j
is
In. •,, 11 • 13" his 0i 11 end. lie S slow, though. and 1
:, n
5 1 1 • 8 guess he needs to be sat nut a few games
it 1 !'i -here or there to Save his strength for the
11 ,1 , '' big games. •
i'I i 1' s Players who fit into the (-plus
° n :