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November 22, 1985
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MICRON JUNIOR PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
ONTARIO LEAGUE The Oshawa Generals are one of the better scoring teams in the Leyden Division and it’s mostly because of increased production from the likes of Gary McColgan. The 19-year-old left winger, who figured in nine of Oshawa’s 13 goals in a pair of recent wins, earned the nod as the OHL Player of the Week. McColgan, who bagged the game winner in a 6-5 decision over London, had three goals in the two games. He has collected 21 points in his first seven games this season. WESTERN LEAGUE The Portland Winter Hawks are the hot team in the Western League with a 10-1 record and one of their offensive stars is young Glen Wesley. The 17-year-old Wesley, who is a defenseman like his older brother Blake of the Toronto Maple Leafs, picked up seven…
Thunderbirds Aim For First-Rate Tourneu
CALGARY—This is no nickle-and-dime production. And, it could be just what the doctor ordered for Canadian university hockey. British Columbia Thun le birds are going first class all the way in playing host to a six-team tournament in Van-couver Jan. 2-5. Enough was enough. Tired of begging other teams to play exhibition games, tired of watching other colleges woo away prospective players with scholarships, UBC decided to stage its own tournament, with some of the proceeds going to the Father Bauer hockey scholarship fund. Organized by the Thunderbird hockey alumni association, the red carpet is being rolled out for Ivy League schools Yale and Cornell, Seibu from Japan, Toronto Blues and Manitoba Bisons. There are 20,000 tickets waiting to be sold. Will they sit or will they sell? “Canadian college hockey is the best amateur hockey in…
Czechoslovak Bubla Star On The Canuck Blue Line
VANCOUVER CANUCKS VANCOUVER—Where Jiri Bubla is concerned, Vancouver Canucks’ coach Tom Watt uses his Serge Savard theory. When Watt had the great veteran Savard playing for him in Winnipeg, he used to play the former Montreal Canadien as much as possible, feeling Savard would respond to the challenge. With the 35-year-old Czech veteran, the strategy is working just as well. Bubla, the oldest skater in the National Hockey League and second oldest player behind New Jersey Devil netminder Glenn (Chico) Resch, has been the Canucks’ best defenseman this early season And to think there was some debate over whether he’d be returning this year. Bubla recently logged 29 minutes in a game against Toronto and as a reward was given the next day off. Nobody knows whether he’ll be able to keep up the pace, but…
ON THE CONTRARY
MESHUGGE—Pronounced m’-SHU-geh. to rhyme with “Paducah”. Defined: Crazy, nuts, wildly extravagant, absurd. There is not a single word in the English language that sums up Howie Young’s life. But fortunately, there is in Yiddish. Meshugge is Howie Young’s middle name. Is this man crazy, nuts and wildly extravagant or isn’t he? Answer: affirmative. Only Howie Young could have completed a 17-year professional hockey and drinking career in 1977 and suddenly surface this fall at age 48 to resume his professional hockey career. I kid you not. After reading a HOCKEY NEWS story indicating that the International League’s Flint Spirits needed players. Young hocked his horses in Oklahoma and rounded up enough cash to high-tail it to Flint. “I give him credit,” says Spirits’ coach Doug McKay. “He worked hard and gave me a good effort.” Howie played four…
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