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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-12-12, Page 6Almost every day we hear hockey fans talk about the watered down brand of hockey being played in the pro ranks and they always point the finger at expansion, • Admittedly the increased number of teams has cut down on the all-round calibre of our national pastime but a quick look at the standings in the National Hockey League will indicate expansion teams are faring much better than the so-called established teams. In the NHL leaders in all divisions are clubs of the newer variety. The best point total by far this season has been recorded by the Buffalo Sabres. Punch Imlach and company have really come alive thanks mostly to the French Connection line. The Sabres lead division four with 46 points and a 14 point margin over the Boston Bruins who were expected to walk away with the division title. The Sabres have lost only four times in 29 starts this season and are now on an undefeated streak of 11 games. The three members of the French Connection have each scored 20 goals to date. They are Gil Peerault, Richard Martin and Rene Robert. Probably the biggest test for the Sabres this year will come tonight Thursday when they are at home to another amazing club the Vancouver Canucks. The Vancouver team leads division two with 38 points 13 more than the second place Chicago Black Hawks. Con- tributing a lot to the Vancouver success are a couple of former Junior OHA performers Dennis Ververgaert, Don Lever and John Gould. The Los Angeles Kings tied with the Montreal Canadiens at the top of division three are also more than a pleasant surprise for their supporters. The Kings have only lost two games and have managed to salvage nine ties. To complete the expansion leaders the Philadelphia Flyers defending Stanley Cup champs head division one with a comfortable lead over the Atlanta Flames, another expanded team. The only established team in division one, the New York Rangers is floundering in the basement. Another champion It was great to hear the news over the weekend that a Canadian girl won the ladies championship in the Moscow International figure skating tournament. Taking the title was 18 year-old Lynn Nightingale of Ot- tawa. Lynn is a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Payne of Grand Bend. When Karen Magnusson deserted the amateur ranks the question came up as to who could replace her as Canada's top female skater. It didn't take Lynn Nightingale long to answer that question and most decisively. We will certainly hear a lot from Lynn in the next couple of years. Highest number in hockey Gerry Desjardins, the goalie for the Michigan Stags in the World Hockey Association now has the highest number onithe back of his sweater ever worn by any hockey player. It wasn't many years ago when the only number worn on a goalie's jersey was No. 1. That changed some in recent years when some netminders switched to the number 30. But Desjardins has gone one better. His new number is 88. When asking for the change to 88 Desjardins said "maybe you could,say a goalie is behind the eight ball so why shouldn't he wear a double eight? While talking about the Michigan Stags they have trad- ,-,:' away their biggest liability as far as high salaries is con- The financially troubled Stags sent Marc Tardiff to the Quebec Nordiques. Opposition brings crowds While the Toronto Toros are drawing better crowds than they did a year ago their best turnouts this year are coming when recognized stars are part of the opposition. A week ago when the Houston Aeros and the Howe family were at Maple Leaf Gardens more than 14,000 fans were in attendance. Six to eight thousand has been an average figure for most Toro home contests. Next Tuesday night Bobby Hull and his Winnipeg Jets will be in Toronto and the turnstiles at Maple Leaf Gardens should sing a merrry tune. The Toros have been saving their worst performances for the benefit of home fans and this has not helped too much at the gate. They have lost their last six games on home ice. A quotable quote From Dave Schultz of the Philadelithia Flyers who has a reputation as a scrapper on the ice, "I've never fought anybody in the streets never in my life. Frankly, I would probably get beat. I don't know how to box." Broncos drop decision, meet St. Marys next BANTAMS IN ACTION — The Exeter bantams put on good performances in reaching the finals of a weekend tournament in Ilderton before bowing to Petrolia in the final. Above, Paul Van Gerwen (16) Preston Dearing (11) and Darrell Preszcator (2) of the Exeter club are shown around the Petrolia net. 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This weekend the Hawks play two games in as many nights, Friday night at 8:30 at the Exeter arena they will be at home to the Belmont Green Giants and Saturday night they travel to Tavistock to meet the Braves. New rule in effect In Sunday's game in Lambeth the Hawks were assessed a 10 minute penalty under new OHA rules this year when Steve Jennison was nailed as the in- stigator of a fight. Hockey teams from Huron Park again enjoyed a busy week with a total of eleven games being played. The newest team, the Huron Local teams get only two points Exeter teams gained but two points in a Shamrock "A" tripleheader at the Exeter arena Wednesday night. In the first game of the• night the Exeter and Strathroy pee wees battled to a 2-2 draw. The bantam game ended in a 1-1 deadlock and Strathroy won the midget game by a score of 6-3. The lone Exeter pee wee score was fired by Wayne Parsons on an unassisted effort. Paul Pooley notched the first bantam goal on a solo dash and the other successful shot was fired by Perry Pooley on a pass from Dave Atthill. Scoring in single fashion for the Exeter midgets were Jim Webb and Phil Knight and Jim Gregus. Doug Osgood picked up a pair of assists and John Van Gerwen helped on another. Hold wrestling tournament The South Huron District High School Wrestling team finished fifth in the sixth annual Red and Black tourney held at the local school, Friday. Local wrestling coach Doug Ellison said he was satisfied with his team's showing. He added, "we were up against four of the best teams in WOSSA last year and 10 of our 15 wrestlers are novice." Placing second in their: divisions were Don Van Raay, Vince Winters and Marc Gelinas. Finishing third were Mike Westelaken and Paul Reaburn while Rick Bilcke and Bill Baker were fourth. Also winning one match but not placing in the final standings was Dave Lovell. Bill Baker was named the most improved wrestler while Don Van Raay was judged the best from South Huron and Vince Winters managed the fastest pin. At the time of the penalty the score was tied 6-6 and the Flyers went on to score two goals to gain the victory. Play during Jennison's stay in the penalty box was evened a bit as the Flyers drew three minor penalties. The score see sawed back and forth throughout most of the game. The Hawks scored the first goal of the game only to have Lambeth bounce back to lead 4-1 early in the second period. Then it was the Hawks scoring five times in the last 11 minutes of the middle frame to take a 6-5 margin. The first Exeter goal of the game was fired by Rick Ingram on a three-way effort with Noel Skinner and Kevin Bestard, In the second period captain Harry Smits scored twice for the Hawks with single shots being Parkettes participated in three ladies exhibition games and came away with two victories and a tie in three starts. The Parkettes opened the week by playing a scoreless draw Monday with the Centralia College girls. Thursday it was off to Lucan and a 2-0 decision over a Lucan ladies team. Back to Huron Park Saturday, the Parkettes again scored a win over Lucan this time by a 3-0 score. Shirley Denny and Christ Cath- cart were the Parkette goal scorers in the first win over, Lucan and Ann Lewis, Shirley Denny and Nina Underhill scored in the second game. The Huron Park pee wees• broke even, losing 4-3 to Belmont and scoring a 5-2 victory over Lucan. Robbie Funston was the top Huron Park marksman with two goals against Belmont. Ralph 'Wells added the single. Rick Lather with a two goal effort led the attack against Lucan, Adding single scores were Ralph Wells and Tony Underhill and Tom Dinney. In their only start of the week the Huron Park atoms battled to a 2-2 draw with Lucan. Robbie Winger and Terry Hodgins were the successful shooters. The Huron Park midgets came up with a 3-2 win over Belmont Friday after losing to Ilderton and Lucan by scores of 4-1 and 8-5 respectively. Scoring in single fashion, for Huron Park in the win over Belmont, were Brian Lather, Bob Stuckless and Terry Underhill. Brian Lather was the only scorer against Ilderton but came back with a three goal per- formance in the loss to Lucan. Other HP goals came from the sticks of Mike Wood and Jim Moffatt. In two bantam division games, the Huron Park club dropped a 3- 1 decision to Lucan and defeated Exeter 5-0 in an exhibition con- test. Perry Healey was the only Huron Park scorer against Lucan. Ross Black with a three goal effort was best in the scoring department against Exeter. Notching one goal apiece were Perry Healey and Bob Lawrence. fired by Brian Taylor, John Beer and Gerald Weido. Assists were well spread out in the second period scoring with seven different Hawks helping in the scoring. They assists were picked up by Noel Skinner, Harry Smits, Rick Ingram , Wayne Regier, Murray Parsons, Rick Mommersteeg and Steve Jen- nison. Bob Marr scored in each period to lead the Lambeth scorers. Tom Brown scored twice and Rob Parsons, Chuck Peterson and Steve Varey added one goal each. Great short-handed effort The Hawks using only two forward lines and three defen- cemen throughout most the game took a commanding 4-1 lead against Mitchell Friday and had little trouble in gaining the win. After Gerald Weido put the Hawks in front 1-0 Murray Parsons took over in the scoring department. Parsons scored three times in little more• than four minutes late in the first period. The first Parsons marker came on a pass from Gerald Weido, John Beer assisted on the second and Steve Jennison and Donnie McKellar drew assists on the hat trick goal. The score was 4-1 at the end of the first 20 minutes of play and Mitchell notched two goals in the second before the Hawks were able to get back on the scoreboard. The only Exeter goal of the middle stanza came at 13.44 when Harry Smits con- verted a pass from Bill Van Bergen. In the third period Steve Jennison closed out the Hawks Counting with assists going to Gerald Weido and Donnie McKellar. Five points for darters Three teams came up with maximum five point per- formances in Friday's regular play in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league. The Dark Angels, Doublers and BJ's came up with perfect scoring efforts.' The Itchy Niters continue to lead the league with 46 points with the Dark Angels in second spot with 90 points to their credit. This week's scores were: Dark Angels 5 - Outlaws 0 Doublers 5 - Inlaws 0 BJ's 5 - Scotties 0 Itchy Niters 4 - DR's 1 Supremes 4 - Last Chance 1 Shiphunters 3 - F Troop 2 Canners 3 - Night Hawks 2 BA's 3 - Winkers 2 Friday's schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. Night Hawks vs BJ's DR's vs Inlaws Last Chance vs Outlaws Shiphunters vs Winkers 9:30 p.m. BA's vs F Troop Scotties vs Canners Doublers vs Itchy Niters Dark Angels vs Supremes The Exeter bantams went to the final round of the Ilderton ;bantam tournament Sunday before bowing lout to a strong Petrolia team. Petrolia took the first game of a total goal final series 3-2 Sunday morning and then roared back in the afternoon with a decisive 9-2 victory. The Exeter club reached the championship round by defeating Wallaceburg 5-2 Friday night and Saturday they downed St. Marys by the same 5-2 count. After holding Petrolia to a 3-2 score in the first game, the Exeter boys were no match for their opposition in the second contest. Petrolia came out flying and with the help of two power play goals in the first period went on to win handily. Paul Pooley scored both goals in the second game against Petrolia. The first came as he deflected a shot by brother Perry. On the second successful Exeter play, Paul Pooley scored as he was put in the clear by One victory for minor '13"s In a Shamrock Minor league "B" tripleheader at the Exeter arena Sunday afternoon Exeter teams scored only one victory. The only win came in the pee wee division with Exeter edging Lucan 4-3. Ilderton won the atom class contest over Exeter 5-1 and Lucan bantams scored an 11-1 win over Exeter. Kevin Parsons scored the winning goal in the pee wee game with five minutes left on passes from Bill Hern and Doug Flet- cher. The first Exeter goal came from the stick of Dave Bell with Danny Galloway assisting. At the end of the second period Lucan led 3-1. Jamie Shipley scored twice for the Irish youngsters and captain Paul Wraith notched the other. Down by two goals the Exeter boys went to work in the third period, Doug Fletcher started the ball rolling with assists going to Bill Hern and Kevin Parsons. Hern then followed in only 17 seconds with Parsons and Fletcher setting up the play to tie the score at 3-3 and set the stage for the winning shot by Parsons. The only Exeter goal in the bantam game was fired by Danny Preszcator with passing help coming from Dave Cann and Danny Bell. Calvin McCallum with four goals was best for Lucan. Martin Clarke was next in line with three goals and Jim Hayter scored twice. Adding singles were Anthony Clarke and Martin Duenk. Trevor Boyle 'was the only Exeter marksman in the atom loss to Ilderton, Boyle's goal was unassisted. Perry Pooley and Dave Bogart. The first Exeter-Petrolia game was well played and hard fought with a Petrolia goal in the last two minutes of play deciding the issue, Paul Pooley scored for Exeter in the first period and Randy Parsons tallied in the second on a pass from Mike Taylor. Against St. Marys, thejlocals came out flying and scored four times in the first period to take a big advantage. House league play In pee wee house league action Saturday Exeter blanked Huron Park 2-0. Scoring for Exeter were Robert Watson and Jim Romphf. Waxers show improvement The Exeter Waxers playing exhibition games in the novice division dropped a 6-0 decision to Seaforth Thursday and lost 3-0 to Goderich Saturday. During the loss to Goderich the Exeter boys turned in their best performance of the year. In an earlier game Goderich blanked Seaforth 9-0. Perry Pooley was the top scorer for the Exeter team with three goals, two coming on unassisted efforts. Dave Bogart and Paul Pooley assisted on the other. The other two Exeter goals were fired by the Preszcator brothers Dennis and Darrell and both came on booming slap shots from the blue-line. Only heroic play by .the Wallaceburg goalie kept the Exeter team from running up a higher score as he faced a total of 45 shots. In this game Dave Bogart was the top Exeter marksman with a two goal effort. Single goals came from the sticks of Brian Mercer and Paul and Perry Pooley. T-Shirts $ 00 Just Arrived Toys & Games For Everyone In The Family * * * Hockey Sticks $525 H & K SPORT CENTRE ,EXETER 235-2261 HP girls win twice pee wees break even EXETER MINOR HOCKEY SCHEDULE EXETER ARENA Thurs., Dec. 12 • 7:00 p.m. - Seaforth vs Exeter Waxers Novice Sat., Dec. 14 11:00 a.m. - Atom Houseleague at Huron Park 12:00 noon- Exeter Pee Wee II Huron Park at Huron Park 12a10enxoeotenr - Atom Houseleague 1:00 p.m. - Huron Park vs Exeter Pee Wee I at Exeter Sun., Dec. 15 4:30 p.m. - St. Thomas vs Exeter Atom '13' 5:30 p.m. - St. Marys vs Exeter Atom 'A' Pat's Peti are Minor Hockey Supporters