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’ You. want to talk
frustration!! -

Then talk to those truly ar-

dent: hockey fans who, for
whatever obscure (and certainly
masochistic) reason, insist on
blindly pledging their allegiance
to such giants of the game as the
Vancouver Canucks and
Quebec Nordiques.
* All season, the moments of
ecstasy have been but tiny drops
in a shoreless bucket of agony
as their teams dedicated
themselves to obtaining an early
draft pick and an equally early
release to the golf course.

However, painful though the
performances have been, that is
not the cause of the frustration.
Rather, it is the fact these fans
know full well their team would
be in first place overall and hot
favourites to take the Stanley
Cup if only they were general
manager/coach.

For these fans it is crystal
clear the current holders of
those positions have instincts
which. would not have looked
out of place on the bridge of the
Titanic. They never draft the
right player, never put together
the right line and wouldn’t
know a good trade if it bit them.

Ah, but there are in every
season two golden moments
when these same fans, the un-
sung managerial Great Ones of
the game, have an opportunity
to come into their own.

They are known, of course,
as hockey pools and offer
would-be Glen Sathers a chance
to: demonstrate their staggering
grasp of both the game and its
practitioners.

And as the current season
draws to a close, these fans are
busily preparing for just such a
moment — the Playoff Pool.

Ht is also the real test of
talent. No 80 game schedule
here that forgives the temporary
slump by giving a player time to
recover his scoring touch. Just
unremitting pressure ftom the
first whistle of the first game
and the sure and certain
knowledge a-couple of bad
games can consign even the best
to early oblivion.

But for the poolster there is
no pressure, only the challenge
of skilfully mixing his picks to

‘* ‘come up with the unbeatable

combination of players and

‘teams’ that will leave the rest

wailing in his wake.

The draft, when it comes, will
be over in a matter of a couple
of hours, But for the poolster, it
is only the culmination of nearly
six months spent jumping from
one TV channel to another so as
to catch every game possible,
poring over the weekly stats
published in the provincial
dailies and religiously commit-
ting to memory every word con-
tained in The Hockey News.

Add to. all that information
the intuitive instincts which are
too often. denied the mortals
who pace behind the bench of

the average team. and you have

the poolster’s magic formula,

' Next ‘time, a look at this
year's playoffs and some
predictions/suggestions based
on the results of an exhaustive
survey of local pundits.

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