PLAYER OF WEEK JOFA

Darren Fisk is an 11-year-old goaltender for the Saltfleet Minor Hockey Association all-star select peewees of Stoney Creek, Ont. A determined young man, Darren has missed only two games in the five years he has played hockey, even though he has been afflicted with bronchial asthma and hyperactive joints. The 4-foot-10, 82-pounder is coached by Edd Norton, also of Stoney Creek. A Grade 7 student at Memorial School, Darren loves hockey. In the summer, he attends hockey camps, power-skating classes and dryland fitness classes. Darren’s favorite NHL team is the Montreal Canadiens and his favorite player is the Canadiens’ acrobatic goaltender, Patrick Roy. You or someone you know can be part of the T1TAN-JOFA Minor Hockey Showcase. Just send a photograph, along with biographical information (age, height, weight, team, coach’s name, school and grade, as…

Red Wings’ Boast Is Bigger Than Their Bite

DETROIT—The words were barely out of coach Jacques Demers’ mouth when his team made a liar out of him. “(We) play the style of hockey that makes us very difficult to beat when we take the lead,” he boasted after a 5-1 victory over Winnipeg! But in their next two games, the Wings squandered two-goal leads. They turned a 2-0 lead at home against Montreal into a 5-4 loss. The next night, at St. Louis, they blew a 3-1 lead in the third period, but hung on for a 3-3 tie. Instead of a four-point weekend, then, they managed just a single point. Instead of claiming first place in the Norris Division, they were looking up at Toronto. So whatever happened to the team that could protect a lead so well? Demers could only…

Ex-Vezina Winner Aims To Show Up Leafs

Goalie Don Edwards, an NHL regular for 10 seasons, is thrilled to be back in the minors. Nova Scotia is a step up from where he was last season—the Allan Cupchampion Brantford (Ont.) Mott’s Clamatos—and just another step from his eventual target, the Edmonton Oilers. “I’m so excited,” said Edwards, who was invited to Edmonton’s training camp on a tryout basis. “Every day I can’t wait to get to the rink. I feel like a newborn calf.” That’s a big difference from last October, when Edwards was considered excess beef by the Toronto Maple Leafs. “Gerry McNamara (Leaf general manager) decided 1 was going to be the fifth man in the system,” Edwards said. “He said 1 was going to go to Newmarket (in the AHL) and ride the bus, but I wasn’t going…

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