ICE HOT. Totem Ford goalie Rod McInnes was at the top of his game Saturday. afternoon as the
Terrace Midget Rep team played host to Fraser Lake. Above, he turns aside another shot to keep
the home team ahead on the board in a game marked by a regular procession to the penalty box,

Reps rip up Rupert

TERRACE REP teams got their new season offto a —_ttheir Novice division season with back to back wins

winning start Oct. 15-16 and in convincing style. over the Geisclman Bruins (5-3) and Copperside
The Bantam Reps shut down Prince Rupert 7-Oin (10-0).

the Friday night opener then swamped their coastal Wilkinsons and Doyle’s Blazers each scored vic-

rivals 12-2 the following day. tories in their openers.

Meanwhile The PeeWee Reps were just as merci- Dediluke Surveying and Terrace Chrysler split
less with their Rupert opponents, pounding the their two meetings, Dediluke hammering their
home team 13-5 and 10-2, Midget rivals 12-3 in the first but dropping an 8-6

The Midget Reps didn’t get a chance to complete —_ decision in the rematch,
the sweep when Prince Rupert cancelled out of Atom teams Drifters, Kinsmen and All Seasons
their Tri-City league games. all opened with victories while, Bradford,and Rotary
In local house league action, the Elks launched did the same in PeeWee action.

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There is a perception - and
initially, it seems perfectly obvious
- that with the NHL shut down
indefinitely, all other levels of
hockey will prosper, It's natural to
assume that died-In-the wool,
gotta-getta-fix rink rats who can't
watch the best league will turn to
the next league. And it's true that
attendance is up in junior, senior
and professional leagues all
across North America, But would
that attendance be up anyway?

At least one prominent hockey
man in Canada feels that other
levels of hockey will not prosper
without the NHL leading the way.

David Branch ts the long-time
commissioner of the Ontario
Hockey League. He’s watched it,
or more. appropriately helped it,
grow from a fledgling junior loop
with changing ownership to a
rock-solid, profitable league with
prospective new investors lined
up to join in. Branch says
attendance is strong this season
but he doesn't see the NHL
lockout as a windfall for the OHL.

“Actually, the absence of the
Toronto Biue Jays at a time when
they usually dominate the scene
in Ontario is probably the real
reason for a surge in
attendanca,” he said from his

office in Scarborough, Ont. “The °

‘success of the Toronto Maple
Leafs since Mr. Fletcher took

. over is the real catalyst for every

hockey league in Ontario and a
long NHL shutdown might mean
a general apathy. | don’t think the
situation will help us at all.”

The point is easily overlooked
but on second thought, what
prompts kids to grab a stick and
head onto the street for some
shinny? More than likely an NHL
game on TV. And who do they
pretend to be and wear the
sweaters of in their games? With
respect, it's not Smith and Jones
fram the local squad, but Gilmour,
Bure, Lafontaine and Ranford,
And it doesn't matter how much
money they're making, it's the

a moves they make and league

they play in that count.

To further gauge the
importance of the NHL in the
remarkable growth of hockey all
over the continent, ponder these
questions: Did the East Coast

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Florida, grow on its own or did the drive en masse to Ottawa to
spillover from the NHL provide watch the Lynx. They put away
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popularity as a whole has created settle for the rest.
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