Tourney organizers shoot IT’S NOT just the members of the lop placed teams that’ll get a Ginancial boost out of the first an- nual All Seasons Lightning hock- ey tournament, Spokesman Darcy Mallett says the. team also hopes to raise hundreds of dollars for the Rick and Paul King Foundation. “They'll be doing that in two ways, the first by raffling off a -- refrigerator stocked with rcfresh- menls. Tickets are on sale now and can also -be purchased at the arcna throughout the Nov. 17-20 tournament, The second is a puck shoot competition to be held on the Bully boys arrested THE BACK EDDY Bullics were on their way to victory — uniil _ the RCMP stepped in. Entering the finals undefeated at the Smithers Senior Hockey league toumament, the Bullies faced the Hazelton wings, a squad they’d defeated 8-6 earlier. And as the clock ran down in the final with the Terrace raiders ‘up 3-2, it looked like they were ‘on their way toa repeat, ‘Until Hazetion Wing and local “police: officer Tony Park hand- cuffed the Bullies’ keeper, pounc- _ing on a loose puck in a goal mouth scramble to even the score, / Less than a minute later it was “ ‘the tum of Hazellon detachment member Scan Boser who un- ‘leashed a wicked slapshot from ‘the top of the left face-off circle. The puck clipped the Terrace goalic. on the shoulder, popped high in the air to drop behind him and trickle across the line. * Hazelion centre Simon Dodd pul the game away with an empty “. nétter — his hattrick goal — with just 25 seconds left. The Bullies played a tough game marked by solid checking . throughout. However, the Hazelton keeper came up big several times in the first couple of periods. ~ That allowed the Wings to stay alive and set the stage for their late rally.°. Sunday priar to the final game. For a fce of $5, players try to hit targets placed in the net with a $100 prize on the line, In the event of a tie, the top scorers’ names will go into a hat, the onc being drawn picking up the $100 prize. Mallett anticipated as many as 75 players will be chasing that cash. The Lightning and Back Eddy Bullies face each other Thursday night at 10:30 pm. in the tourney’s opener and lone game for that night. Friday secs seven and a half hours of action starting at 6 p.m. while Saturday’s games open ai 8 am. wilh the meeting of Norm’s Aulo Refinishing and the Preci- sion Builders Blues, for Foundation cash boost As Stewart Grizzlics and Hazelton play out the final period of their Saiurday cvenirg game, most of their opponents will be in ihe banquet room for the Big Thunder Dance, featuring ihe music of Big Bark and the Howlers. Sunday sces the top six teams face off for the money, filth tak- ing on sixth at 9:30 am. with third and fourth hitting the ice an hour and a half later. The final is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. of completion of the puck shool, Whichever comes first. The Lightning tournament has attracted 10 teams including the Kitimal Blades, a Hazelton team coming offa triumphant Smithers performance and the furthest travelling Stewart Grizzlies. ALL SEASON’S LIGHTNING HOCKEY TOURNEY 94’ NOV. 17 THURS. 10:30pm _—— All Season’s VS Back Eddy NOV. 18 FRI. 6:00pm _—— All Season’s V. Norm's Auto 7:30pm JHW VS Skeena Hotel 9:00pm __— Kitimat Tricks VS Precision Builders. 10:30pm Hazelton VS Methanex 12:00pm Stewart VS Back Eddy ‘NOV. 19 SAT. 8:00am = Norm's Auto VS Precision. Builders 9:30am = All Season’s VS JHW 41:00am Kitimat Tricks VS Skeena Hotel 12:30pm Methanex VS Stewart 2:00pm —_- Hazelton VS Back Eddy 3:30pm JHW VS Precision Builders 5:00pm § Methanex VS Skeena Hotel 6:30pm Kitimat Tricks VS Norm's Auto 8:00pm Stewart VS Hazelton 9:00pm Big Thunder Dance Terrace Arena Banquet Room Big Bark & The Howlers — $5.00 Per Person Tickets Available At Arena Durin NOV. 20 SUN. 9:30am = Sth VS 6th 11:00am 3rd VS 4th 12:30pm ‘The Rick & Paul King Foundation Puck Shoot Fundraiser _ 1:30pm 1st VS 2nd . The Tournament. NHL rinks are as quiet as an interview with Jaromir Jagr and will be, apparently, for some time but it doesn’t take an exhaustive search to find places where the game of hockay is flourishing. Now tell me Wheeling, West Virginia, didn’t pop to mind when you thought about hockey hotbeds. = a ; The Wheeling Thunderbirds of the East Coast Hockey League are sald out most every night. Many of their games are on TV, ihe coach has his own television show and is in demand on the banquet circuit. That coach is a prairie boy from Fairlight, Sask., with the second biggest moustache in the west, Doug Sauter. (First place goes to some guy from Hanna, Alberta.) f Sauter says the Thunderbirds have cashed in on the papularity of hockey in Pittsburgh, just 60 miles northeast, and the price tag for seeing the Penguins. “Our ticket prices are $6, $7 and $8, so you can go out toa game and have dinner with your family all on a $50 bill and-that's very attractive to the people of the Ohio Valley,” says Sauter. Or anywhere else, for that matter. Now, for $7 you don’t get to watch Maric, but then you don’t most nights in Pittsburgh, either. You'll have to settle for Xavier Majic and = Patrick Lebreque but thal doesn't mean ‘you have to settle for second-rate -hockey. “| think we'd beat any Western Hockey League team," says Sauter, whe knows a bit about that having coached in Calgary, Regina, Medicine Hat and } ol. Use a KEYWORD. This | immediately tells the reader. . | exactly what tt is you have. tO sell. PIRES | 2 Make your: description » _ _ CLEAR and FACTUAL. State» TIPS ON—_ “HOW TO WRITE A CLASSIFIED _ AD THAT SELLS _| the year, make, model, color, size, and tell what condition © if the item is. ‘Also state the | a special features. 3 for results. 8. 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The East Coast Hockey League has been a tremendous success and now has 18 teams, including its new entry in Tallahassee, Florida. They keep salaries down and ticket prices low so sales are high and there's a_ lineup for franchises, On the ice, teams can dress only 15 skaters and two goalies The The Voice of Canucks by Jim Hughson 86 there's lots of ice time for the players, who are primarily former college stars and mid- to jate- round junior picks on ioan from NHL teams. In Wheeling - population 45,000 -. where high school football draws crowds of more than 5,000 fans ‘avery Friday night, the Thunderbirds now draw the same and the minor hockey program Is filling up. WAHA, the Wheeling Amateur Hockey Association, now has 700 kids including 16 girls’ teams, so people aren't just watching the games, they're playing and understanding the sport. As Sauter points out, “The game is now the biggest attraction at the games." Yet promotions are still front and centre. . 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