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December 24, 1993
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Finch operating superbly for surging Brown Bears
When Brown Bears’ senior goalie Geoff Finch talks about his exciting summer, he’s not talking about a vacation on the beach or a trip to some exotic resort. Finch, a biology/pre-med major, spent the summer working in the emergency room in Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, Calif., one of the largest hospitals on the West Coast. He was one of two Brown students chosen during the first year of an internship program with the hospital. “It was incredible,” said Finch, a native of Oshawa, Ont. “I was feet away from flashing scalpels and needles. I had read about all the procedures and suddenly, they came to life.” The 21-year-old appears destined for a career in medicine. His father, Graham, is also a doctor and his mother, Nancy, is a nurse. Finch has done…
NHL tackles ’98 Games in Japan
The NHL is exploring its options for the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, and a familiar problem has emerged: scheduling. The league doesn’t want to shut down operations for the entire ’98 Games, but shoehoming the hockey tournament into a reduced time period would be a challenge for the International Ice Hockey Federation. The II HF, which sanctions the event, has already put together a proposed schedule. It runs about two weeks, according to IIHF vice-president Gordon Renwick of Cambridge, Ont. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said league teams would be hard-pressed to take more than a week off their schedule. “I believe the owners would agree that Olympic participation would make sense if it could be limited to approximately a week,” Bettman said. “Beyond that, it would simply be…
Incumbent De Rouville snubbed by Canadians
Absent from the invitation list to the Canadian national junior team’s final evaluation camp was College Francais goalie Philippe De Rouville, the backup on last year’s gold-medal team. Seven players from the Quebec League were among 32 players invited to the camp Dec. 13 to 18 in Kitchener, Ont. Twenty-two players will make the team for the World Junior Championships Dec. 26 to Jan. 4 in the Czech Republic. “In the way we analyzed their performances on the ice and their mental capacity, (Laval Titan’s Emmanuel) Fernandez had a slight edge over De Rouville,” said Team Canada and Beau-port Harfangs’ coach Joe Canale. “It was close, but Fernandez had the edge on performance and hunger to make the team.” Canale and his staff decided to name only three goalies (Saskatoon Blades’ Norm Maracle…
Russian Penguins brew up new ideas
Mark Kelley is an assistant general manager. In the lexicon of the trade, he’s a hockey guy. He is not a sociologist and even if he was, there is little that could have prepared the new assistant GM of the Moscow Penguins for Free Beer Night at the Moscow Ice Palace. Trouble erupted on just one of four of these promotional nights and that was limited to fans littering the ice with leftover cans after the final buzzer. In North America, Free Beer Night at a professional hockey game where the top ticket goes for 25 cents (believe it or not, that’s what it is in Russia) could be subtitled, “please bum down our building.” “I think the people thought throwing the cans was some sort of hockey custom,” Kelley deadpanned. “There is…
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