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Flaherty worried about tea
Terrace goalie eyes :
expansion team berth

With a possible 1991-92 NHL
expansion roster spot staring
him in the face, Terrace goal-
tender Wade Flaherty is current-
ly concerned about the so-so
showing of his new Kansas City
farm team in the International
League.

“We struggled to a 2-and-17
mark to begin our 82-game sca-
son,”’ he told us during a brief

~ three-day visit to Terrace last
week on a family matter. ““Late-

' ly we've improved considerably
with our mixture of rookie free
agents and veterans.

Wade said his goals-against
has been fluctuating between
4.05 and 4.40. ‘Facing over 40
shots a game doesn’t help.”’

He said the team is improving
and he has high hopes they'll
make the playoffs.

. The fact they are not affiliated
_ with an ‘active’ NHL team, and
thus are more or less not pres-

Rae Logging takes
novice tournament

The annual Kitimat Minor
Hockey ‘Novice’ tournament on
January 19 weekend attracted 16

“teams for Friday night to Sun-
day afternoon action. They
‘wound up playing 30 games at
both the ice rink and Tamitik.

When it was all over, the Rae

Logging team ended up with the
. gold medals. Rae won all their
games — three in their four-
‘team round-robin section, plus
‘their semi-final and the- title
matchup. " ;
Rae, from Prince Rupert, also
had the tournament high scorer
in Jared Andreeson (17° goals).
Runnerup in goal-scoring was
Tyrel Armstrong. of Terrace
’ Doyles with 14 markers.

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Former Kitimat curler
Lester Abrie] won the zone
five and six mixed curling °
best-of-three playdown at his
hometown Prince George
Curling Club on the weekend.
He beat out Ken Blanes of
Terrace in two. straight games
- io earn a.berth in the B.C.
finals in Victoria starting Feb.
15. oe

The Shirley Baker foursome
of Smithers defeated Jean
Billing of Prince Rupert ina
tle-breaking, game for the
‘1 genior ladies’ district four
curling playoff at Hazelton
“Sunday. Baker advances lo
the provincial finals at Trail,

starting Feb. 6.

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sured individually to regain @
spot in the big league, means
they face less pressure and can
concentrate on skill develop-
ment.

Kansas City has a few veter-
ans mixed in with the youngsters
to help the younger players
achieve success.

Travelling is not really a prob-
lem. Unlike the old days when
buses were permanent moving
arrangements, much of their
travel is by airplane.

As for contracts, Wade is
basically a free agent. He has a
one-year deal with additional
one-year option, but this doesn’t
go into effect until June.

As for Kansas City remaining
San Jose’s top farm team, ru-
mours are floating that it could
be Reno, Nevada, or even Kala-
mazoo, Michigan as well. More
will be known at the end of the
season.

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The Flaherty brothers —— Wade, Brent and Mark — got together for the first time in a while last
week when Wade came to Terrace for a visit. The Terrace youth is currently doing journeyman
professional hockey work as goalie for the International League's Blades in Kansas City.

Rae’s netminder — Pat Dou-
cette — won the Mark Fitzpat-
rick Award as best goalie. He
allowed eight goals for 1.13
goals-against average.

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team division advanced to final

playoffs. CPU (division *A’) “ eens
took on Rae Logging (division CUSTOMER
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won 9-4, The losers then played.
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Scores of all .games can be

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Kitimat curlers are tired of
playing in the old ice rink.

They've launched a fund-
raising effort for construction of
a new rink by the Hirsh Creek.
golf club. ot

A few years back, the ald club
by Riverlodge was demolished
due to structural defects. The ice
rink has been used on a limited
basis since then.

The curlers have asked Kitl- -
mat council to come through
with a $50,000 contribution. A
decision is pending.

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