40 - North Shore News - Wednesday. September

FROM left, Greg Sawers,
Milad Rahmati, Andrew
Cobb, Gavin Hobbs and
Leo Nash, who helped
the B.C. rep team to the
national U-17 charnpi-
onship.

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who were ameng the all-star
squad that claimed the
national tle in Sherbrooke,
Quebee.

The team posted a 4-0
tourney record on their way
te the title, heating Manitoba

3-0, Quebee 31,
Newfoundland 3-0 and
Alberta 1-0.

Hobbs and Rahmati cach
poted a goal apiece in’ the
tourney to help pace the
team over its competitors.

Following the nationals,
26 of the Canadian players
were selected to remain tn La
Belle Province to train with
the Canadian © 18 team.

A pair) oof | North
Vancouver players — Nash
and Hobbs — were among,
the seven B.C. players asked
to stay. Rahmati, also of
North Van, was selected to
stay and play for the U-17
navional rep team.

— Jan-Christian Sorensen

NEWS photo Pau! McGrath

WAYNE Babych watches over his young charges at a
Babych Brothers hockey camp held last week.

Brothers groom
hockey youths

dan-Christian Sorensen

Sports Reporter
Jsorensen@nsnews.com

THE Babych brothers
have seen them come
and go.

NHEers Dave and Wayne
Babych have helped over two
dozen players past and present
earn a spot in the bigs through
their hockey camps.

The brothers were in
North Vancouver last: week,
hosting a week-long, session at
Canlan Ice Sports.

The brothers started the
camps in their hometown of
Edmonton when they were
teenagers.

At first, it was to make a
quick buck, said Wayne, but it
changed when the brothers
broke into the pro ranks.

“When you get there you
want to start giving something
back,” said Wayne. “And Dave
started having kids and having
them involved is also kind of a
gratifving thing.”

Wayne spent ten years as a
right winger in the NHL —
including two beside Dave in
Hartford — betore an oppo-
nent two-handed him over the
knee and prematurely ended
his career during the 1988 sea-
son.

Dave began his defensive
career with the now-defunct
Winnipeg fets in 1980 before
moving on to the Hartford
Whalers. He spent close to
seven seasons with the
Canucks (tron L99 TD to 1998)
before moving ont the

Philadelphia Flyers and L.A.
Kings.

While Dave saw time with a
hockey squad in Switzerland
last season, he isn’t sure where
he'll be this fall. He's had his
line in che water for a while,
but no NHL teams have bitten
yet.

“I could be playing with
my kids this year,” he mused.
“In this business nothing can
happen until somebody else
decides it’s going to happen.”

Dave has lived in North
Vancouver for over a decade.
Wayne is currendy looking for
a place on the North Shore.

Wayne handles the winter
camps while Dave joins him in
the off-season to assist with the
summer sessions.

They've also hosted camps
in Tumbler Ridge, Edmonton,
Banif and Winnipeg.

This year the brothers
attracted about 125 kids,
mostly from the North Shore,
to the Canlan camp. Quite a
few of them, said Dave, keep
coming back each year,

“There’s some great players
and there’s some that are just
starting to learn, bur they just
want to get into the game,”
said Wayne. “Everybody wants
to try it, maybe more so now
because of the money

Dave said the caliber of
North Shore skaters is high.

“There’s some older kids
that are really good but the
younger ones are at that. stage
where in a week they can just
progress so far. Every time
they get on che ice they ger
better.”