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It was still touch and go from there on in as the Swedish visitors turned on the power aided by back-to- back Richmond Hill penal- ties which gave them a five- on-three advantage. V'I‘rhe tegion boils managed to hang on icing the puck at every opportuniitzx CROWD-PLEASER The game was a speedy. end-to-end crowd pleaser most of the way with a firedâ€" up Legion crew attempting to check the Swedes at every ‘turn. “I would say the Hammar-| by boys played the type ofI game we figured they would". commented Midget Coach Pete Artemchuk. “We knew we had to break up: their plays in their own end: before they got their pat-‘ terns set up. We succeeded‘ most of the time. The boys.1 played tremendous hockey‘ out there and skated right; with Hammarby." TWO GOALS FOR WALLINGFORD Hill Loses Lead To Tie Swedes MINOR BANTAM 2nd Team Victoria 8. Grey Reached 4th Round In Etobicoke Victoria 8.: Grey Trust reached the fourth plateau in the 48 Minor Bantam Tournament in Centennial Arena, Etobicoke. during the Christmas holiday, Victoria & Grey Trust 1 Annunciation 1 Despite outshooting An- nunciation 24-8. Victoria & Grey had to settle for a 1-1 tie against Annunciation December 27. The Hillers appeared sluggish, playing only as well as they had to as Greg MacMillan scored f r o m linemates Robert Greiner and Ross Queren- gesser. A total of 1,800 local fans thought they had an upset in the making Friday night as they watched the Richmond Hill Legion Midgets take an early 2-0 lead against the favored Hammarby hockey squad from Sweden. . Alas, it wasn’t to be. But it still turned out happily as the hust- ling midgets turned a 4-3 last period deficit into a 4-4 tie and sent everyone home happy. The hero on this occasion was the Legion’s Jeff Miller as he swept home the tying goal at 16:20 of the final period. The Toronto team fought back and tied the game late in the third period as most of the Victorian parents became second guessers and critici‘lr ed their team. They failed to recognize, however, that there were two teams on the ice. Victoria & Grey 6 Annunciation 2 The Hillers skated to a 6-2 victory the next day to win the two game total goal series 7-3 over Annunciation. Midway through the sec- ond period Victoria & Grey had struck three times. Billy Byres slapped home an un- assisted goal. followed by Phil McLaughlin’s counter from Alan Clark and John Burnett, while Greg Mac- Millan scored from Robert Greiner and Angus Mc- Gregor. The Toronto team however. refused to play dead and they rebounded with two fast goals to close the gap to 4-3. Querengesser from Greiner gave Victoria a big insunance goal while Greiner added an- other tally from Querenges- set and Goalkeeper Steve Shadoff. Greiner concluded the scoring from MacMillan to move the team into the "A" division of the tourn- ament. 'OL. 97, NO. 27. Victoria & Grey 7 Scarboro 4 Victoria & Grey moved a step further in the Etobicoke Tournament with a 7-4 vic- tory over Scarboro Sharks December 27. Ross Querengesser com- bined with Robert Greiner and Greg MacMillan quickly. and Billy Bytes scored from Reiner Pleschberger before Scar-bore made it 2-1. Greg Walton scored from Alan Clark and John Bur- nett, Scarboro made it 3-2. Querengesser potted a goal from Greiner and MacMillan. but again Scanboro narrowed the gap to 4-3. Robbie Walilngford was The Hillers, however, click- By FRED SIMPSON ‘nd lat- led )ys :ey ght The Hammarby team kept persisting and their efforts paid off at 9:34 of the sec- ond period when Jan Carls- sen carried behind the Richâ€" mond Hill net and then swept right out in front in a neat move and backhanded the puck past Goalie Gerry Tipold who shared the nets during the game with Mike Doyle. Doyle played the final period. Hammarby made it 2-2 just before the end of the isecond on a goal by Jan 'Carsen. It might have been 3-2 if it wasn’t for a great glove ‘grab of a sizzler by Tipol-d )on a Hammarby player just ;before the end of the period. the early key man for the midget team as he opened the scoring at 18:05 of the first period and then brought the large crowd to their feet with his second goal only 60 seconds into the second per- iod. Tony Robinson got the fans excited all over again at 3:22 of the second period ed three times as Clark scor- ed from McLaughlin, Macâ€" Millan combined with Quer- engesser. while McLaughlin steered home a goal from Jim Wood and Clark and the Hillers skated off the ice vic- toriously. Mark Porter play- ed a steady game in the net. Humber Valley 3 Victoria & Grey 2 Humber Valley eliminated Victoria & Grey from the tournament with a 3-2 win in a close exciting game December 28. The Toronto team scored the winner with only 12 seconds remaining in the contest. Victoria were shook up early as Humber Valley scor- ed at 1:11 but Wood shovel- led in the puck from Mc- Laughlin a minute later. The two teams skated from end to end until 5:19 of the third period when Humber fired home the puck. Wood how- ever, with a tremendous burst of speed tied the game from John Tuck at 5:51. This was a game. that could have gone either way. Neil Putnam blistered a slapshot that just grazed the goalpos‘t. With only 12 seconds left, Steve Shadoff, who played courageously in the net, stopâ€" ped a hard shot, but another Humber Valley player fired home the rebound. While the Hillers were disappoint- ed. they bowed out of this tournament with their heads held high. Victoria & Grey 5 King City 0 1 Victoria & Grey shut out King City Bantams 5-0 in King City December 30. The Killers were in com- mand for the entire game as Walton, MacMillan and Querengesser fired single goals, while McLaughlin scored twice. Assists went to McGregor, Pete Tipold, Tuck, Clark, Wood, Querenâ€" gesser, Putnam, and Byres (2), Kevin Brown notched his first shutout of the cam- paign. MINOR PEEWEES Don Mills Tournament Wilson Niblett Minor Pee- wees were matched against Don Mills North Stars in the first game of the annual tournament December 22. Richmond Hill took a three goal lead in the first period on counters by Barnett assist- ed by Main, McGregor assist- ed by Henderson, Main assist- ed by Jones and Halliday. In the second period the North Stars scored their only goal and Richmond Hill add- ed four moreâ€"Henderson from Eldridge and Knight and McGregor scored the final goal unassisted. EICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1974 as he took a pass from Wal- lingford and beat the Hamâ€" marby netminder. TYING GOAL Then came the tying one by Conny Homgren at 6:06 and the go-ahead 4-3 goal at 13:14 by Per Harju while Richmond Hill's Bob Russell was serving a two-minute penalty for hooking. The Swedes looked like winners at this point until Miller came through with the big one. A Hammarby official commented that the Leg- ion team proved to be “very worthy opponents" all the way." He offered the comment that the Ham- marby boys played much better hockey against the Legion than they had the previous game in a 5-4 win over Oshawa. Coach Artemchuk noted that the Hammarby squad showed a good passing atâ€" tack, fast-skating, and were dynamic inside the blueline as we expected.” Artemchuk had high praise for the goaltending of Tipold and Doyle stating that “they kept us in there at times." He admitted to being sur- prised at the Hammarby goalkeeping w h i c h saw Thomas Blom flopping at every opportunity. He said the Legion boys “played a heck of a game against Hammarby who, like most of the European teams. are far superior in physical conditioning." ‘I thought we would see a more stand-up type of goal- Final score was Richmond Hill 7, North Stars 1. Richmond Hill 4 West Mall 3 Wilson Niblett then took on West Mall in a two-game total-goals series. In the first game Rich- mond Hill won 1-0 on a goal in the second period by Main with assists going to Henderâ€" son and Barnett. It was a different story in the second game with six goals being scored. The Hillers went ahead on a goal by Corless from Hend- erson and Shannon, then West Mall scored three goals to go ahead 3-1, but the local lads came back to score two goalsâ€"one by Halliday from Dunford, and the other from Henderson from Barnett which tied the score. Shopsys 5, Richmond Hill 2 Richmond Hill advanced to the quarter finals of the tournament against Toronto Shopsys. The Hillers scored the first goal by McGregor, assisted by Dunford. Then Shopsys came back with four un- answered goals to end the first period 4-1. The series ended Richmond Hill 4, West Mall 3. In the second period Rich- mond Hill got one back when Eldridge scored assists by Dunford and McGregor. Shopsys then scored the final goal to have the game end Shopsys 5, Richmond Hill 2, and eliminated Richmond Hill from the tournament. LAST WEEK'S RESULTS MINOR ATOM 2nd Team Beeton 7. Royal Bank 0 Royal Bank was beaten in Beeton by Beeton to the tune of 7-0 December 18. Mark Ellison and Mike Briggs along with the rest of the team gave 100%, but to no avail. Strand 2, Royal Bank 1 Again December 22, Royal Bank went down to defeat. but came out with their heads held high. Stroud was the visitor and the winner by a 2-1 score. MINOR BANTAM 2nd Team Victoria & Grey Trust 3 Stroud Bantams 0 For the second week in a row Victoria & Grey visited Stroud and went home with a shutout victory. as they won 3-0 December 19. Mark Porter, in picking up his first shutout of the sea- son. turned aside 15 shots. Alan Clark won the draw at the six minute mark of the first period and passed to Greg Walton. With a flick of the wrist Walton fired home ing much in the manner of the Russians. I think that might have hurt Hammarby a little as we kept shooting high." Richmond Hill Rams‘ Coach Karl Brimblecombe saw the game and commentâ€" ed that while Hammarby was “a good team they weren't as strong as I thought they would be." Brimblecombe said he was surprised at Hammarby‘s in- ability to “finish off their plays which I thought would be a strong point with them. But they are a talented club." EXCELLENT PLAY He thought the Legion team played excellent as a whole noting in particular the play of Ricmond Hill’s Mike Gallaugher. He felt Karl-Erik Lilja was the pick on defence for the Swedes noting “he does everything well and seems to control the play out there." Tlie game was generally a mild contest with penalties being of the minor variety. Play ranged from end to end throughout and was a crowd-pleaser all of the way. Opening ceremonies saw Inge Hamarstrom of the To- ronto Maple Leafs officially facing off. Also in attendâ€" ance was Borje Salming, a1- so of the Leafs and Chancel- lor Lars Lunberg of the Swedish Embassy in Ottawa. A banquet was held for the players, parents, game officials and RHHA oficials at the Royal Canadian Leg- ion following the game. the puck, Later Billy Byers was on a clear breakaway and he shot from the corner, but the Stroud goalie made a fine save. Robert Greiner, however, alertly slapped home the rebound. Hustling Phil McLaughlin picked up a stray pass and deeked the goalie for Victoria’s last goal. The team played well, giv- ing it that little extra effort to help preserve Porter's shut out. This was a fine team effort as the boys did two things wellâ€"they skated and they hit. Victoria & Grey 7 Nobleton Bantams 5 Victoria & Grey won their fourth consecutive game the hard way with a 7-5 win over Nobleton in the old arena December 22. as they m0- mentarily blew a 5-2 lead. The Victorians potted three fast goals as Alan Clark clicked from linemates Phil McLaughlin and Jim Wood; Billy Byers scored from Greg MacMillan, while Neil Putnam connected from Clark. Two quick goals off the stick of Chris Bedford on passes from Putnam and Greg Walton made it 5-2. At this juncture that feel-1 ing of over-confidence crept in, and Nobleton scored three unanswered goals to tie the game 5-5. With a little over a minute left in the game Ross Querengesser poked in a MacMillan pass to score his third game-winning goal of the season, and it was fitting that Jim Burnett score the insuance marker from Angus McGregor and Bedford. This was Jim’s first game since being out with a broken thumb last October. Oro Bantams 6 Victoria & Grey 1 Victoria & Grey had their four- game winning streak ended last Sunday when they dropped a 6-1 decision to Oro Township in the Oro Arena. The game was only eight minutes old before Oro led 2-0, and the Hillers realized that the scouting reports on Oro were true, for this team beats everyone by double figures. To add to Victoria‘s grief the game was of a full hour's duration. Suddenly Alan Clark tal- lied from Phil McLaughlin and the score was 2-1. When the smoke had cleared, young Steve Shadoff in the Hiller net had faced a total of 63 Oro shots. as this Bantam club kept skating and shoot- ing constantIY. For 55 min- utes, Shadoff faced shots from every possible range and angle. Mark Porter played the last five minutes and he faced six shots, as Oro fired the Hiller net better thanlwith one each There was about 10 min- utes remaining when Ernie Takeuchi swept along the right boards and shot a right- on pass in front of the North Bay twines. A speeding Febbo took the pass in full stride and whipped it home before the North Bay net-r minder had a chance to make a move, Rams Tromp Trappers 5-4, Nationals 4-3 By FRED SIMPSON Chunky Rick Febbo took the time out from threatening mayhem on opposing wingers Sun- day night to score two key goals as the Richmond Hill Rams edged North Bay Trappers 5-4 at the local arena. ‘ The Rams held onto the lead, aided and abetted by the second straight good goaltending exhibition by Brian Stankiewicz. He stop- ped 26 North Bay shots, 3 number of which were dangâ€" erous. The Rams also fired 26 shots at North Bay. The win, coupled with Saturday’s come- from-behind 4-3 win over top-running Vaughan Nationals at Maple, bolstered the slightly sagg- ing morale of the injuryâ€"riddled Rams. ‘..C, .v -_ ’i‘t’ié‘ft thenR'ams' in" solid possession of sixth place in the hectic Provincial Junior “A” hockey race, just six points from top _spot. _ The final minute of the game threatened to develop into an embroglio as the Rams’ Takeuchi and North Bay’s P e t e r Salowski ,Fiébrbor wars the scrappefâ€"ttfrned-scoring-hero Sunday night as the Rams and Trappers fought to a 4-4 stand-still well into the final 20 minutes. once every minute. BANTAMS Travelways 5, Aurora 4 Aurora travelled south to our ramparts December 19 and came out on the short end of a 5-4 squeaker. The Riders outscored the visitors in the first period 2-1 on goals by Dave Barker and Chris DeGeer, Assists went to Dan McVeigh, Brad Lloyd and Ron Abernathy. Richmond Hill Judo Club Instructor Don McClelland gives a final tug as Brian Beith (centre) is shown receiving his first degree black belt in a ceremony held at the official opening of new club quarters two weeks ago at 159 Centre Street East. Officially present- ing the black is (left) Frank Hatashita of The second period was al- most Travelways’ undoing as Aurora netted 3 to their 1, by DeGeer on a setup by Paul Kisko. The third period was all Travelways with two big ones by Kisko and Dale Strang with assists to DeGeer and Russell respectively. Travelways 6, Willowdale 1 An exhibition game on December 21 with the Wil- lowdale Boys‘ Club, members of the MTHL. was not the best of games but a bit of a workout anyway. Scorers for the Riders were David Baker and Ron Dysart with two each, and singles to Dale Strang and Paul Kisko. Assists went to Brad Lloyd, Randy Martin, Dan McVeigh. DeGeer with two and Paul Kisko. Two new faces were insert- ed into the lineup â€" Albert Del Fa'bro and Ricky Girard. Both lads showed well. JUVENILES Aurora 4 Mr. Transmission 3 The transmission lads fum- bled and stumbled to a ter- ribly played loss December 18. It was one of those nights when everything went wrong. Aurora rapped the disc into the Hill nets three times be- fore Kevin Brillinger bulged the twine. Aurora came right back and made it 4-1. Tom Sanlon was successful on his attempt at a goal and the third was by Alan Gra- ham. Richmond Hill 11, Aurora 2 Mr. Transmission himself, Kevin Brillinger, sank Aurora with five goals and two as- sists December 23. Revenge was sweet, but the locals did have the blessing of a full team again‘ Goal- keeping duties were shared by Bill Wood for two periods and Mark Edwards for the last period. Assists went to Paul Bailie it at 3-3 at 10:42 from John with three; Sanlon with two, Jalsevac and Billy Stephen- Ricky Sackfield with two; son. Reg Armstrong with two; and The Rams shocked the A1 Paivo and Brad Campbell homecrowd with only 22 with one each. seconds left as Bob Bangay HOLD LEAD attempted to get at one an- other. Richmond Hill’s Feb- bo got excited about it all and looked ready to do battle with anyone he could get to co-operate with him. The whole thing fizzled out as the final bell rang with both Takeuchi and Salowski draw- ing 10-minute misconduct penalties. North Bay opened the scor- ing in the first period on a goal by Andy Stojkiewicz with Mike Hartman tying it up at 5:22 unassisted. Mike Babin put North Bay in front at 13:13 and Bob Horton made it 3-1 at 14:34. Richmond Hill came out flying in the second period with Jimmy Clement scoring from Bangay at 3:17 and Jim Graham tying it at 4:19. Febbo scored the first of his two goals at 10:36 from Takeuchi. The Trappers tied the game only to set the scene for Febbo’s winning heroics. PLEASING WIN It was a particularly pleas- ing win for Coach Karl Brimblecombe because he was missing three key play- ers in the persons of Dave “Digger” Dunkley, Dave Stuart and Defenceman Jack Guest. Black Belt Presentation “That Febbo’s been the big key for us in the last few games," said Brimblecombe. "He‘s turned things around for us at a time when we needed something to happen. “Of course," he added, “we've been getting some fantastic goaltending from Stankiewicz and Doug Brum- Well. Stankiewicz has been particularly brilliant for us in the last two games. He was the reason we picked up two points.” Coach Brimblecombe feels some of the fans might be a little too harsh with the re- cent plight of the Rams who have been struggling. “Don‘t forget,” he said, “we’re just six points from first place and we’re hurting. You can’t lose guys like Dunkley, Stuart and Guest and expect to keep on sail- ing along." The above three have vari- ous aches and ‘bruises and will likely be missing from the line-up for a .week. MINOR SYSTEM Brimblecombe has been using some products of the Richmond Hill minor hockey system in the threesome's ab- sence and has been elated with their showing. He brought Doug Hodgson up from the Minor Midgets Saturday and Mike Gal- laugher from the Legion Midgets Sunday. “They both played great hockey and it’s a very im- portant thing to have some- one in the system capable of filling gaps through in- juries." he said. LIKE LOSERS The Rams looked like losers for the two periods in Saturday's game against the Nationals. The Vaughan squad had built up a 3~1 lead despite some brilliant goal- tending by the Rams’ Stanâ€" kiewicz. “It looked bad for us going into the third because we just weren’t playing as a team,” commented a club spokesman. “We decided to come out playing in the final 20 minutes and we won it." A suddenly aggressive Steve Glover started it all off with an unassisted goal at the 33-second mark to make it 3-2. Steve Morrison tied it at 3-3 at 10:42 from John Jalsevac and Billy Stephen- son. picked up a loose puck. sailed in on the Vaughan nets, and popped the puck home. OPENS FOR RAMS The Rams‘ Mike Hartman opened the scoring at 7:06 from Jim Clement and Billy Stephenson. That ended the scoring in the first. It was all Vaughan in the second on goals by Brent Bowen at 2:06 from Alf Lamoureux; by Ike Makos at 16:51 from Warren Holmes and Charlie Hughes; and by Doug Sellars at 18:27 from Brian Burtch. Then came the tihird period rally by Richmond Hill. An indication of the out- standing work turned in by Stankiewicz can be seen in the shots on goal. The Rams play at Downs- view Saturday night at 8 pm, in Dixie Sunday .at 7:15 pm and are at home Tuesday of next week to Whitby. Vaughan outshot the Rams 47 to 2'7. The Rams ate turkey Christmas Day of last week but they didn‘t enjoy it much as they went down to a 10-2 defeat at the hands of the Wexford Raiders at Wexford. Story of the game can be seen in the fact that the Raiders scored four power play goals on the Rams plus another one while they were shortâ€"handed. Andy Vince headed the firing squad for Wexford with three goals followed by Archie King with two. The others were divided between Neil Burns, Bob Trimble, Bill Hassard and Steve Major. Dave “Digger” Dunkley and Steve Glover were the trigger-men for the Rams with high-scoring Mike Hartman assisting on both goals. Hartman ran into some penalty problems during the game, sitting out something like a total of 11 minutes; This may have accounted for his failure to get his custom- ary goal or two. RAMS’ MOMENTS The Rams’ best moments of the game were in the first 10 minutes highlighted by the ‘opening goal which came after 56 seconds of the open- ing period. It happened as Hartman. won the faceoff, carried in on Wexford’s defense, and sent the puck into a speeding Dunkley who swiped it home before Goalie Steve Napier had finidshed his pre-game warm-up. Wexford’s King tied the game at 12:54 and that was the beginning of the end for Richmond Hill although they trailed by only 2-1 at period's end on a power play goal by Vince at 17:10. The second period saw Wexford put four more into the net to Richmond Hill‘s one by Glover which came on a power play with Hart- man and Billy Stephenson assisting. The game was a rather} fighting affair with several‘ so-so bouts occurring. Rick Febbo drew a 10-minute mis- conduct after firing a shot after the whistle; Jim Roffey and Arcllie King exchanged blows drawing five minutes apiece at 17:36 of the open- ing period. King drew an extra two for high-sticking. Then came a bout between John Jalisevac and Graham Hall; Bill Hassard and Ber- nie Pederson; Rob Trimble and Hartman. BRUMWELL IN GOAL Doug Brumwell was in goal for the Rams but couldn’t be blamed for the scores as the Raiders were right on top of him. Toronto who has his seventh degree black belt which is the highest in Canada. The night saw members of the club performing various judo combinations as well as jui jitsu as prac- ticed and taught at the club by Steve Rey- nolds. The Raiders outshot the Rams 31-25 but had the bet- ter scoring chances most of the way. The Rams had things going better for them Sunday night of last week as they broke out of a slump, temporarily. and downed Weston .7-4. Leading the way with goals for Richmond Hill were Mike Hartman and Rick Febbo with two each followed by singles apiece from the sticks of Jim Rofiey. Bennie Peder- WEXFORD HOT SHOT SECOND PERIOD sen and Dave Stuart. Brad Neville, Tony Paniccia, Don Lamb and Murray Marling scored for Weston. TAKE EARLY LEAD The Rams were in little difficulty most of the way after taking a 4-0 lead in the first period, sagging momen- tarily in the second as Wes- ton outscored them three goals to one, but coming on to score two more in the third against Weston’s one. A few rather interesting scraps were the real high- light of the game. with the main bout occurring between the Rams’ Rick Febbo and Weston‘s Steve Brown. It all started in the third period when Brown and Er- nie Takeuchi tangled at cen- tre ice. Takeuchi was lying face down as Brown ham- mered him and that's what brought Febbo onto the scene. He and Brown ended up rolling on the ice. ' DCPIIU [anus (New and Repairs) Weldrick Constr. Co. 158 Weldrick Road 881-0069 GAME MISCONDUCTS What resulted was game misconducts for both Febbo and Takeuchi while Brown got five minutes for fighting and Rick Knox another five for coming off the bench. E JUNIOR “A” 5 ~â€" __.. 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