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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-03-25, Page 8Times-Advocate, March 25, 1976 Page 8 BONSPIEL WINNERS — Winners of the Bank of Montreal Ladies Curl- ing Bonspiel held St. Patrick's day at the Exeter Curling Club receive their trophies from Doug Knowles, of the Bank of Montreal. They are, from left to right, Mr. Knowles, Bea Dawson, Doris Hackney, Dorrie Finnen and Helen Webber. photo by Y. Romaniuk Kurt Bowman, Manager Main St., Exeter Don't Miss These Special LOW PRICES On most popular sizes of Goodyear TIRES SAVE UP TO $3 A00 NO PER TIRE It's our spring tire clearance and all present stock is being sold at fantastic savings. • INSTALLATION EXTRA • ,E(RIYISH South End Service LEYLAND 578 Main St. S., Exeter Phone 235-2322 Authorized Dealer $ 3 95 a bushel NOW ONLY MacINTOSH APPLES Shell PRODUCTS CRUNICAN BROS. RR 2, London Telephone 666-0286 LOCATED ON HWY. 4 -Y. MILE S. 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In the 43 games they have played this year, only two other teams have managed seven goals against them; Byron beat them 7-4 and Sandwich West 7-3 in the previous two playoff series, Ron Bogart, coach of the A's called Listowel a "well balanced team. They skated well and executed the basis skills very well. They outhustled us for the whole game and it showed up on the scoreboard." The A's, who usually present a balanced game of offence and defence left goaltenders Steve Wells and Doug Hoffman com- pletely unprotected in both games, allowing the Listowel shooters into,the sloOunmolested. The A's managed to outshoot Listowel Saturday, 39-38, but Sunday Hoffman and Wells were bombarded with 48 shots and replied with 36. Despite the high number of shots they had, the A's only managed to beat Listowel goalie Rod Sacks once. Bogart had high praise for the opposition goaltender, who at one Rispin put the Penguins back in the lead to stay less than two minutes later when he scored at 9:48. Shayne Peacock from Scott Smith was the only goal that the Northstars could manage to get past Tom Lessard in the third period as Lessard played a steady game, holding them to the slim two goal margin. Peacock's lone first period goal gave the Northstars an early lead before Tom Dinney briefly put the Penguins back in the game with an early second period goal. From that point on, it was all point in the second game stopped nine successive shots from the A's with his glove hand. The A's were behind right from the beginning Saturday when Chad Gross converted a pass from Paul Kanning and Kevin Konings after 70 seconds of play to give Listewel a 1-0 lead. Jeff Dude and Paul McClement added singles to make the score 3-0. Doug Brooks got the A's on the scoreboard at 13:20 of the period when he banged in Dave Bogart's rebound for their only goal of the weekend. Konings scored in the second for Listowel and Bender popped in the final marker at 1:50 of the third. • At the end of the first game Bogart said that he didn't think Listowel was four goals better then the A's. These words came back to haunt him though, when the A's were blasted 7-0 Sunday. Jeff Bender's goal at 5:26 of , the opening frame proved to be $, the winner in the contest and Arnett's at 10:13 of the same period the insurance as the Listowel crew skated away with the game. Konings scored the only goal of the second, even though the A's had a man advantage for seven minutes at the end of the second and the beginning of the third period. The A's outshot Listowel 15-9 in the second frame. Canning, Bender, Snedding and McMurren all added markers in the third. Listowel outshot the A's 22-13, Northstars, as Mike Rispin's two consecutive goals, the first from Joe Ried and the second from Mike Sutherland, were all the Northstars needed to win. Mike Mills put the Penguins back in the game with a goal, but Peacock put it out of reach with his second and third of the game before the end of the period. The third frame was scoreless. The Northstars won the championship on the basis of their three wins to the Penguins one, which came on March 19. No statistics were available for the March 19 game. as they did in the first frame when Hoffman faced 17 shots, compared to eight for the A's. "What a time to be in a slump", said Bogart, who called his team "flat, lacking that desire." "I guessthere is not much else I can say about a 7-0 loss" he continued, "Overall we seem to be making basic fundemental mistakes and having mental lapses. We were down two games to Sandwich and came back. If we can gain back our confidence and get some desire...you never know what might happen." Support Bunny Bundle Gabian Stone Calcium Chloride in 100 pound bags Sand & Stone Gravel Stone for Weeping Beds EARL LIPPERT TRUCKING LTD. Crediton 234-6382 By FRED YOUNGS Sportswriters usually take it upon themselves either at the beginning or the end of the regular season to make predictions on the outcome of the playoffs and who will win the championship. I don't like to risk my tarnished reputa- tion at the beginning of the year, as it is usually too nebulous to begin predicting things for the upcoming seasons, but I will try things like that near the end of it before playoffs start. Those of you who have read this column on a regular basis, (all three of you) will have noticed that my predic- tions usually run towards the dismal end of the spectrum. I predicted the Lucan-Ilderton Jets to do well in the playoffs. They got bumped out in the first round. I said Philadelphia would bomb against the Russians, rather then bombing the Russians. And number one on the embarrassment chart was my asinine adoration of the underdog when I predicted the Baltimore Colts for Super Bowl champions. (Sportswriters have been impaled on their typewriter keys for lesser offences.) However, I go blithely along, making intermittent predictions until one day when I come in and find my desk moved, the office area I formerly occupied leased out to an obscure religious group and my typewriter being melted down into small ingots that will be stamped into a demented pattern and sold as tasteless jewellery for pampered poodles and spoiled Siamese cats. That's when I'll know I went a little too far, but until then, (or the powers that be finding a suitable replacement to fill this column witth lunatic ramblings each week) I will continue to make predictions, like this week when I go out on a limb once more and predict how teams currently playing in the NHL will finish the season, In essence, predicting the Stanley Cup winner. We'll dispense with the riff raff first of all, and save the good stuff for the end. These teams don't even count this year, and rightfully so because they don't deserve to. They are, in no particular order, the Washington Capitals, Kansas City Scouts, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars, St. Louis Blues and the California Seals. All of them currently have below 70 points, although a few, like the Blues and the Seals could go past that arbitrary mark. They can be dismissed out of hand because any of the above, who managed to make the playoffs are not strong enough to make any sort of surprising comeback over the stronger teams. Henceforth, we move on swiftly to the teams that could surprise a few people when playoffs roll around. Right at the bottom of these teams is the Chicago Black Hawks, who lead their division only by dint of the fact that they are in the weakest division in the league. The Hawks don't seem to have a lot going for them, with their hot and cold goaltending and semi-scorers. Their defence has suf- fered the past few years, under the strain of WHA contracts and poor drafting. They shouldn't really go beyond the first round they enter into. Then there is the Vancouver Cannucks, who have in- frequent bursts of power. The whole question with the third Canadian team is when they will get their next hot spurt. Last year they almost did it to Montreal, and they could do it again but on the basis of average games, they will like- ly be eliminated in the semi-finals. The Atlanta Flames will likely follow the same pattern, but they have one thing in their favor. One could term the Flames late bloomers this season. They started out somewhat dismally, but have come on to show some promise and ability. I wouldn't go so far as to place money on them though. Los Angeles and Toronto are about as neck and neck as one can get. As of Tuesday the Leafs held a two point advan- tage, 78 to 76 but the Kings had a game in hand on the Leafs. The Leafs have relied more on ties this year for their points than the Kings, with the Kings having an edge in wins, 34 to the Leafs' 32. They are very equal, except in the goals for against comparison, where the Leafs have a plus 23 and the Kings a minus 9. The thing to remember about the Leafs having the plus in this category is the line of Sittler-McDonald-Thompson. Between these three players, they have 115 goals, or 41 per cent of the Leafs total output. The Kings don't have that kind of scoring punch, but what they do have is spread out amongst the rest of the team with Goring and Dionne taking a chunk of fair proportion. Balancing this off for the Leafs is their superior goaltending. Which makes for one of the toughest decisions this season, trying to decide between these two, but, in the long run, I'd go with the Leafs who stung the Kings last year when they weren't as strong. Pittsburgh is another team that compares closely to the Leafs and Kings, but with a lot more goals. Their real problem is their defence, which hasn't stood up this year and their goaltending which has been weak, Again, like the Leafs, most of their scoring is concentrated in the hands of three or four players. They might surprise a few people, but will not make it beyond the quarter finals. Goaltending and defence is too important in the playoffs. Which brings us to the other close match up in the league, the Buffalo Sabres and the New York Islanders. Both are separated by one point in standings, with the Sabres having the. slim edge. The Sabres have had 12 ties this year, the Islanders 15, which is an important fact to remember. Ties, of course, don't happen in the playoffs, every game counts. This means that the Islanders, no matter how you slice it, have been on the verge of losing more games than the Sabres, insinuating that there can be a few more cliff hangers for them in the playoffs. The counter to this is their superior goaltending. I'll take the Islanders to go farther then the Sabres, and go out on a limb and say if they get hot in the playoffs, the castoffs of two years ago, and last year's Cinderellas could make it to the final. Now we move into an entirely different frame of reference, the top three teams: Boston, Philadelphia and Montreal. Boston without Bobby Orr is a threat, and they claim Orr might be back for the playoffs, but this late in the season, with the team's patterns established and Orr being out of shape, his 'value will not be as great as anticipated. Depending on the Bruins opponent in the semi-finals they could make it to the finals. If it is the Islanders or Sabres they will, but either Philadelphia or Montreal would handle them easily, probably in about six games. Which brings us to the logical conclusion of this, which is, the Cup should be fought out between the Flyers and the Canadiens and hopefully it will, as it would be a good battle. It will go to seven games, and the winner, and this is be- ing predicted without the least bit of hesitation, will be Montreal. They are a great hockey team, just that little bit better than the Flyers, although on the season's records it is hard to see. However, considering my past record, I may just have given them the kiss of death. With my luck the Black Hawks will win it all this year. By MRS.CAROL GINGIERICH The Northstars won the Pee Wee Bantam honors for the 1975 season when they picked up two wins, March 20 and 21 over the Penguins. The Northstars took a first period lead in their Saturday victory when Mike Sutherland set up Greg Lawrence for the first goal of the game at 7:50 of the opening frame. Harold Borden tipped Mike Mills' pass past Northstar goaltender Bob Lawrence early in the second to tie it but Mike 1/4 Steer This Way BY LARRY SNIDER Northstars pee wee champs.