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Night in Canada
‘Confessions of a

view of the action.

orts

Terrace delegate
to seminar

Jim Cain of Terrace
was among the 94
delegates coming from
all parts of British
Columbia to attend the
four cy, C.AH.. Level IV
~ goac seminary, fron

Seramier te hee

by
“ane:
Hockey Associations in
co-operation with the
—-BC.A.HLA, -

- Delegates attending the
seminar received in-
struction from leading
professional, in-

rnational and amateur
trainers and coaches,
along with top Canadian
and American physical
education s all iS.

- Among speakers
during the dour day
seminar were Vancouver
Canuck coach Orland
Kurtenbach; Ron Smith,
newly appointed
assistant coach with the

1972, 1974 and 1977; and
Bert Halliwell, coach of
UB.C. Thunderbirds.

the top level offered
provincially in the five
evel national cer-
tification program

designed to provide

leadership for amateur
hackey coaches across

Canada.
In British Columbia
there are approximately

six thousand hockey~

coaches participating at
some level of the
coaching certification
program.

- Swindells in

. Hall of Fame

- When a track and field
athlete stips onto the
podium to accept his or

r-medal chances are
better: than good that
nearby another  in-,.
dividual will be watching,
wearing a big smile and:
holding a warm glow
inside. 7

“The coach. He doesn’t
win medals for a job well
done but he does win a lot
offriends. 5 =.
Such is the case with
Lloyd Swindells of
Vancouver, a long time
‘coach and administrator
who last May was in-
ducted into the B.C.
Sports Hall of Fame.

“He’s ‘known as ‘Mr.
Track and Field" in B.C.
and that tiele was earned
through many. years of
dedicated work with
young people.

A competitor himself,
Swindells began his
coaching career while
attending John Oliver
- High School. During the
summer months —he’d
attend the YMCA’s Camp
Elphinstone and help out
the instructors —— in’
coaching track:

“I guess I[ always
wan to coach,’ he
sayd, ‘I wasn’t what’
you'd call as great
athlete.”’ ;
‘However, his coaching
career really began to
take: form following the
Second World War when
he worked al the Van-
eouver Boys Club in 1947-
48, then became one of

- served

the founding members of
the Vancouver Olympic
Club in 1958,

’ When the call came for
help in running the 1954
British Empire Games in
Vancouver, Swindells
was there, and was
named Chariman of the
Track and Field Seeding
Committee. -

The B.E.G. was his
first taste of international
competition and fit would
eventually lead him to far
away laces © such
asAustralis, Japan South
America and Europe.

He coached or
managed both Pan
American Games and
Olyumpic Games teams
since 1955 and has also
in many ad-
ministrative posts, in-
cluding that of president

’ of the B.C. Track and

Field Association, on the
local scene.

Swindells considers
administration just as
important as coaching or
competing. ‘“‘Without

roper administration,”

esays, ‘everything falls
apart.”

Even in one of his finest
hours — when he was
inducted into the B.C.
Sports Hall of Fame -—
Swindells passes the
credit to others, “Without
the athletes I wouldn't he
tkhere.” he says.

However, without
Lioyd Swindells, a lot of
athletes would nol have
done us well as they did,

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Kitimat sponsors curling

KITIMAT Two
members of the Alean
group of companies will
co-sponsor the 13.0,
School Curling
Associution — playdowns
this winter. :

The co-sponsorship was
announced today — by
Alcan Smelters = and
Chemicals) Ltd. = in

Kitimat und = Alean
Cenutla Products Limited
‘in Vancoilver.
Hight . regional

champion rinks will meet
‘ins the schoolboy
-playdowns to. be held at
the North Shore Winter
.Club in North Vancouver
from February 2 to 4.
(Girls in the association,

who total sboeut oor
quarter af the 1,000
participating students,
are efigible 1¢ compete in
the B.C. junior women’s
championships.1

The champion und
runner-up rinks ure
eligible to compete in the
provincial junior men's
playdowns, from which

| B.C. school sports draw

VANCOUVER—
Young Melodia Hidalgo
fo Vancouver received an
early surprise Christmas
Gift from her father b
winning the Britis
Columbia Federation of
School Athletic
Association's Sports
Draw’ $5,000 first prize.
Mr. Hidalgo purchased
ticket No, 49594 in his
daughter’s name early

-_ this Fall.

Three other winners of
$1,000 prizes are M.
Herron of Fort St. HJohn,
ticket No, - 873951, T,D.
Rippon, North Van-
couver, ticket No. 855227
and Gordon Sinclair of
Salmon arm, ticket No.
130624.

Twenty sellers prizes of
$100 each were drawn and

NHL play-off revision

A major revision has

been made in the play-off .

system in the for
1977-78 season. Essen-
tially it is this: The four
divisional leaders and the
second place teams at the
end of
schedule will p into
theplay-offs plus the next
four teams with the most
points earned, regardless

of what division they are.
in, Those four are “‘wild

Toronto Maple Leafs; Dr. card” teams. -
Mickey MdDowell, What this means, of
psychologist and former course, is that even the
national team player; Dr. fifth place team in a very
George Kingston, Acting competitive division
Dean of _Physieal might make the play-offs
Education at the while the third place
er 3 team 2 cin. a. weaker
d ‘division, would not, Last
season the =. teams.

finishing first, second and
third in each division
the play-offs,
regardless of their point
totals. The New York

Rangers, fourth behind bi
-the Islander, Flyers and per

Atlanta Flames in the
Patrick Division, with 72
points did not make the
play-offs while Chicago,

third in the Smythe

ots id mak ihe vay.
poin make the play-
offs. If the: ended the
same way this year, the
Rangers would be in and
the Hswks out. -

In the first round of the

play-offs this year, the.

divisional leaders will be
given a bye. The eight
other play-off teams will
be matched according to

- their point totals, i.e. the

team With the most points
draws the team with the
least, second most with
the second least, third
mest with third least and
fourth most, fourth least.

It is felt that not only

will this new system he

-fairer to all teams in

terms of their points
earned (not penalizing
any team for playing in a
tough division) but it will
keep all teams com-
pel tive right up. until the
ast game of the season.
Often while a team
couldn't catch anybody in
its own division it could
catch those in other
divisions.

In an attempt to add a
little more free-wheeling
action the NHL rules
committee has changed
the centre ice rule to
conform to that used in
international com-
petition. Under this rule,
a forward pass from
inside the blue line and
across the centre line
may picked up by an
offensive player as long
as the puck preceeds him
across the centre ice line.
Previously this would be
whistled down as offside
two-line pass. The player
receiving the pass had to
start out behind his own
blue line. Now he does
nat.

The rule change could
lead. to more break-
uways and tow-on-ones as
ulert attackers catch the
opposilions defencemen
up Une ice. -

Another rule change,
under experimentation in
exhibition giames anid

the regular

.points allowed

expected to become law,
would require all non-
combatants to move to
their respective benches,
when an altercation
occurs between two
players. Failure of any
player to move to his
neh ‘will result in his
team receiving a minor
penalty. oO

A revision has been
made to the system of
awarding points in the
popular Molson Cup
competition as it enters
its sixth season as a
feature on Hockey Night
in Canada. =

This year the first,
second..and. third stars
will all receive 5 points.
In previous years the first
star got 5 points, the
second star 4 points and
the third star, 3 points, It
was felt that the new
system gave a better
reak to the consistent
former who can
always be depended upon
to play. well in com-
parison with the hot and
cold player.

The Moslon Cup was

inaugurated by Molson’s
Brewery (Quebec)
Limited. in the 1972-73
season and td members of
the Vancouver Canucks
in 1975-76.

In addition to the
overall. winners, there
are winners and runners
up for each ‘of five
segments of the schedule.
october and November
comprise the first
segment, December,

January and February
the second, third and,
fourth and the combined

March-April games the
fifth and final segment.
The monthly winner

each city will receive
$1,000; ‘runner wu
$500. The over
cumultive winner will
receive another $1,000
and a beautiful trophy.
Points will be awarded to
the three stars in every
game in which any of the
nadian NHL teams
play, whether at home or
away. Progress reports
on the competitions will
given regularly on
Hockey Night in Canada
telecasts on CBC-TV. .
In Montreal, _ the

superlative Guy Lafleur
will be going after his
fourth consecutive

- Molson Cupl The Toronto

Seveloped into a tug.
ve into a tug-of-
war between Darryl
Sittler ‘and Bore
Salming, each of whom
have won it twice, with
the great Swedish
defenceman taking home
the trophy last season. No
trends have yet emerged
in Vancouver where
goalie ‘Cesare.. Maniago
wont the Cup last year,
and forward Bobby
Lalonde in 1975-76,
Vancouver's - inaugural

year.

The Molson Cup
competition is a
relatively new feature
fast becoming an NHL
tradition in the Canadian
cities." ;

Wild-card teams

Five teams are eligible
for the wild-card berth in
the AFC. If Pittsburgh
doesn't win the AFC
Central, it would not be in
line for a wild-card spot
because of in-conference
losses (at least five).
That leaves Baltimore,
Miami, New England,
Cincinnati andnOakland
contending for one
playoff position.

There remain
numerous mathematical
possibilities involving
those five clubs, and the
one remaining team

‘ probably won't be known

until the final week of the
season. For this likely
event, the NFL has its in-
famous tie-breakin;
procedures. EIGHT:
STEP PROGRAM

To break a tie within a
division, the NFL appiies
the following steps in
order: |

1. Best won-lost per-
centage in head-to-head
competition.

2, Best won-lost per-
centage in games within
division,

3. Best won-lost per-
centage in games within
conference, provided
teams played equal num-
ber of intra-conference
games. .

4. Best - point - dif-
ferential (subtracting
from

ints seared) in head-to-
read competition,

% Hest average point

differential applied tc
division games.

6. Best average point
differential applied: tc
conference games.

7. Best point dif-
ferential applied to entire

season .
schedule.n

8. Coin flip.

To bredk a ‘tt for the
wild card t ‘the NFL
applies the" following
steps: iq’ ;

1. If therexiare more
than two teamsutied and
two are from the same
division, the division tie
first will be broken using
the division tie-breaking

system.

The remaining ties then
are broken by the
following:

1. Best percentage in
head-tohead competition,
whennapplicable. This is
applicable in a three-way
tie only if one club beat
both others or one club
last to both others.

2. Best won-lost per-
centage in games, within
conference, provided
teams played equal num-
ber of intra-conference
games. |

3. Best -point — dif-
ferential in head-to-head
competition.

4. Best average point
differential applied tc
conference games.

5. Best point dif-
ferential applied to entire
regular season schedule.

6. Coin flip.

will be awarded to the
following:

Tracy Peach, McNicoll
Jr. Sec., Doug Van-
derspek, Sentinel Sec.,
Carey McRae, Moody Jr.
Sec., Chris Danyluk, R,C.
‘Palmer Jr. Sec., D.
Jonson, Prince George
Sr. Sec., Daniel Stt.-
: Amour, MacArthur
ParkJr. Sec., Steven
‘ Redmond, Comox Jr.
Sec., Sentine] Secondary,
Manuel Pereira, “Mt.
Elizabeth Sec., Brian
Hanet, Rutland Jr. Sec.
Tracey Morris, Nechako
Valley Sec., Jim Bon-
neville, West Whalley Jr.
Sec... Laurie Funk,
-Ballenas Sec., Gary
GFodwin, William
Beagle Jr. Sec., Tamm
Daechsel, Guildford Par
Com. School, Patricia
Neale, Carson Graham
Sec., Lorallyne Ericcsan,
Salmon Arm Sr. Sec.,
Marianne Kaupe,
William Beagle Jr. Sec.,
Tony Falez, Carson

n Accepts

violence
NEW YORK (AP) —
John Ziegler, president of
the National Hockey

League, says his league
accepts violence as part
of its es,

“We have a_ violent

sport,” Ziegler told the
ew Yor Hockey
Writers Association in a

luncheon address

the ice and ask them to
skate at full speed. They
have sticks in their t hands

pro e . We
surround them ith hard

€ Said he
separates that violence
into .
Peco Be ai
any attemp

with the stick is unac-
ceptable,”’ he said. “I do
not find it unacceptable

when. two men, in a’

frustrated state, decide to
drop their sticks and
gloves and take swings at
each other.”

On Monday, two NHL
players, defenceman Phil
ell of Chicago Black
Hawks and forward Mike
Walton of Vancouver
Canucks were suspended
for three games each
because of a stick-

incident which
occurred in a game Dec.
4.

C.X.. Skis,
' Poles, Boots

ne - Christmas
Monday. “'We put men on - :

Graham See., Chjris
Jentsch, Rutland Jr. Sec.

Top selling schools
were:

New Westminster Sec.
— $3.241; Salmon Arm Sr.
See. — $5,651; William
School — $4,245.

_ Aminimum of fifty per
cent of sales proceeds
from the Draw (each
ticket sold for $1) goes
directly to participating
schools around - the
Province for co-
curricular sports and
other school activities.
The remaining per
centage, less Sports
Draw expenses, goes to
the Federation to be used
in trust to assist high
school sports with
developmental programs
and championship travel
subsidies.

This year the School
Sports Draw realized a

‘ ticket sale of more than

$315,000. The Federation
finds it extremely en-
couraging that the people
in fhe Province are
continuing to support the
School Sports Draw and
the useful purpose it
serves.

Fight the
sé | +

Seals

the Winner pote, ap le the:
Halional punder nets
championships

Kitimat works

Inanaper Mill Much said
that be Wet Alean’s
Sponsorship is  par-
ticularly appropriate
“because Kitimat has

been one of Une anchors of
school curling in. the
province."

“We have about 50
secondary -schoul
students luking part, and
as many again in the
elementary grades." he
said. “Levels of  par-
ticipation und pluy have
always been high.”

The Kitimut smelter
will also dunate trophies
for regional pluy downs in
Terrace trom Januury 20
io 22. Winners gu on to
meet those from seven
other provincial regions
inround-robin play for the

championship.

BC. has been
represented in junior
interprovincial curling

since 1944. The sport was
organized throughout the
provincial school system
in 1951.

European
Ski Cup

FLAINE. France
(Reuter) -- Evi Mit-
termaier of West Ger-
many won a women's
European Cup downhhill
ski race Tuesday while
team-mate Monika Bader
finished second.

Mittermaier _ finished
second to Bader in
Monday's opening
downhill.
Mittermaierwon

Tuesday’s race with a
time of one minute, 45.39
seconds while the 18-
yearold Bader had
1:46.37. The two share the
individual rankings with
45 points each after two
races.

Loni Klettl of Jasper,
Alta., was 10th = in
Tuesday’s race with a

-- time of 1:48.71 an: picked

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