FLAHERTY
SWIMS WITH
THE SHARKS

A stop with the NHL’ San
Jose Sharks appears to be defi-
nitely in the cards for Terrace’s
24-year-old netminder, Wade
Flaherty.

At least that’s the feeling
from Jeffrey Flanagan, a staff
sports writer with the Kansas
City Star newspaper.

Flaherty has paced his inter-
national Hockey Leagues’ KC
Blades to a top spot in the West-
ern Division, Wade’s latest statis-
tics show him with 33 games
played, a goals against average of
3.21, and a record of 21 wins-11
losses-and-one-tie.

Writer Flanagan had some
good things to say about Flaherty
earlier this month. His story is as
follows:

The express shuttle between
San Jose and Kansas City this
season has yet to make a stop for
goaltender Wade Flaherty, a sur-
prising oversight in the eyes of
some Blades fans.

But as that shuttle has picked
up and dropped off virtually all of
the Sharks’s properties in goal -
Brian Hayward, Jarmo Myllys
and Arturs Irbe - Flaherty has
kept his chin up and his pads low
for the International Hockey
League’s runaway leaders.

Flaherty, who stopped 18 to
20 shots Friday in the Blades’ 3-2
victory over Phoenix, continues to
set his sights on the immediate.
He ranks third in the league with
a goals-against of 2.85. League
coaches have been so impressed
by Flaherty that they voted him
as the starting goaltender for the
West Division at the Feb. 2
All-Star Game.

“All things considered,” Fla-
herty said with a smile, “that was
really a big thrill for me."

The rewards may be coming

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slowly for Flaherty, who was
signed as a free agent last sum-
mer by the Sharks after playing
last season with the  then-
independent Blades. But Flaherty
and Blades officials have more
than a suspicion a call from the
Sharks is forthcoming.

"He is really in an .enviable.
position," Blades Coach Kevin
Constantine said. "He’s young (24)
and he has a very bright future
ahead. He has been patient and if
he continues to be patient, some
good things will come his way."

In the meantime, Constantine
and the Blades are selfishly con-:
tent with the present setup. Fla-
herty has been the goaltending
workhorse, winning 17 of 23
games he has started. He endured
11 straight starts during the
Blades’ 13-game road trip in
November.

It’s not as if Sharks General
Manager Jack Ferreira has .delib-
erately stiffed Flaherty. To the
contrary, Ferreira has monitored
Flaherty’s career for three sea-
sons.

As general manager for the
Minnesota North Stars in 1989,
Ferreira signed Flaherty out of
the Canadian juniors and
assigned him to the Stars’ affili-
ate in the East Coast Hockey
League. Kalamazoo, Mich., the
Stars’ top IHL affiliate, already
had Myllys and Larry Dyck in the
nets.

When Ferreira moved over to
the Sharks, he recommended to
Flaherty that he sign on with the
Blades, a team Ferreira had envi-
sioned as a possible Sharks’ affili-
ate as early as last season.

"I know (the Sharks) aren't
ignoring me," Fiaherty said. "I
know they've got some other
young guys in goal like me.

"I believe my time will come.
The truth about the business is
that if the Sharks don't have
room for me, someone else might.
So you just keep playing hard and
working hard to improve."

Flaherty’s dedication at least
is paying off this season in terms
of victories.