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FOUR LOCA students’ good grades earned them tickets to: ayecent Vancoiiver Grizzlies game
a3.part of'a Stay in School program sponsored by:the Nerth Vancouver: schoo! district, the
: Squamish: Nation: and the Bank of. Montreal. Here, students (front row, left ta right): Corey ,
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‘Squamish | Bend Councii member. Tewanee Joseph, the school board's John Montgomery and
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LEGEND HAS it that the .
quickest goaltending exit in.
NHL history was executed:

: "Pulled out of one of the few bad
games | he ever hid while making'a:
contender out of a marginal team, he”

didn’t berate the club president. as’.

Patrick Roy did.a few’ days'back:

- "No. indeed. Smith went-through -
the players” box gate and straight to
the dressing room, where he
removed his equipment before going

to the parking lot and driving home. :

» An NHL record.. However he did -

* oat

‘save some intemperate remarks to
__ the kindly boss for a team party and

; shortly thereafter found himself trad. *
ed to the Minnesota North Stars ©:

- for Cesare Maniago....
That trade took a little longer to-

: put together than the one that sent

the Canadiens’: 10-year goaltending "

hero to Denver. But. aga speedy exit

’; from both the game and the build-

“ing, Roy remains‘a

runner-up.
“ However. he certainly did keep

cae alive the Montreal reputation for

newsmaking. goaltenders, going back:
‘all the way back to the original,’

: : Georges Vezina, for whom the top

goaltending award is named.
“Aside from the fact he back-

stopped the Canadiens to their first

: two Stanley Cup wins and fathered

, 22 children..Vezina made tragic

news on Nov, 29,1925. when he

_ collapsed in the goal, blood gushing -
‘from his mouth. It was'the last game

he ever played. He died six months
later of tuberculosis. 000°"

Hainsworth, won the Vezina the
first three years it was awarded and -.

in one of those seasons, 1928-29, set .
a goals against record that will stand
‘forever. In a 44 game schedule, he
“allowed only 43 goals and had:22
shutouts. That’a a 0.93 GAA.
It was a different ‘game then.
Defensemen stayed back. They “
‘didn’t camp on the blue line, fring
screened shots. But they were start-
ing to‘do that when Hainsworth's
successor, Wilf Cude made head-

: lines. Not at the'rink, “but i in his

“apartment kitchen. «

As he sat down to eat his pre-
game steak, Cude's wife ‘accidently.
jiggled the table. Something® .
“snapped. He picked up the steak and
threw it against the wall. He then
‘picked | up the phone and told the

«Canadiens he had just quit hockey as

f that’ moment. Later he was to say:
“] had to get out before they came
for me with the butterfly net.”

- Bill Durnan ‘was their next big
‘newsmaker. He was 29. when he

“made his first NHL appearance in -

1944; He stayed seven seasons ‘and
“won the Vezina a record six times. In

ne stretch he held the opposition
scoreless for 309 minutes and 21
seconds. more than five full games.”
Duran made headlines for the
last time in the spring of 1950 when
_ he abruptly retired midway through
. the Stanley Cup playoffs. Same:

roblem as Cude. Nerves.

“Five years later Jaques Plante

. started his controversial career. in

Montreal. Before he was through. he

~ topped Duman's six Vezina’s by one.

invented the goalies* mask and was
the first to use it despite the objec-

. tions of management. which virtual-

ly’accused him of cowardice.

Ken Dryden was hockey’s news-
. Maker of the 1970s. backstopping
the Canadiens to six Stanley Cups’:
and winning the Vezina five times. -

“As their first ever goalie ‘with a uni-
versity background. he left the team

for a year in a salary dispute to arti-
cle with a Toronto law firm, and

" returned as it full fledged lawyer. He .
- + also wrote 4 book onthe game— *

without a ghost writer. And as sports’
books'go. a classic.’
Roy has three Vezinas and two

- Stanley. Cups. For the better part of a

decade he was the backbone and star
on, basically no-star team. The =”

Canadiens finished third in their
division and sixth overall when they ~" °
-won their last Stanley Cup in 1993.
': They needed 20 games to do it. Ten

of the wins were in-overtime. What

does that tell you about his play?
Can Montreal make a Cup nin

without Roy? Will he make Denver a’

« contender? Only time will tell.’

_ Before leaving for Denver, Tv1e’ .

- Globe and Mail reported, Roy wrote

_a cheque for $500.000 to Montreal’s
Ronald McDonald House. *

A newsmaker and a class’art..

WHO TO CALL:

Sports Editor

‘Andrew McCredie
985-2131 (147)

AND eat A SA SAN

ESSER

HOLLYBURN’S NICOLE Kaltka (left) and Caroline Piggott i won

respective gold. and bronze medal at recent championships.

: Canadian championships. v rf

Nicole Kaffka of the Hollybum Country Club “qualifiee i in ‘syle by
claiming.‘the? “gold at. the’ recent Western - Canadian n Figur Sk ‘|:
Championships ‘in Medicine Hat, Alta. :

for.the big Ottawa dance by finishing third in the same event:
NSWC's ‘Fania Srdanovic claimed: silver- in Junior: Ladies

! ;Keyla Ohs placed fifth in Senior Ladies, Au four will duke it o:

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