B2 - Sunday, May 27, 1984 - North Shore News

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Canucks get new coach

KAMLOOPS Oilers’ coach
Bill LaForge will be the head
man behind the Canuck
bench this fall when the team
kicks off its 15th NHL
season.

The 32-year-old Edmonton
native becomes the youngest

W.P. G. Andrews 2-1
LP T. Rodriguez 0-1

Lynnwood

WEST Vancouver cylist
Brent Mudry was on the
winning team itn
Whistler's Great Snow
Land and Water race, the
annual race that ends the
ski season. Mudry, who is
on the National Trach
Cycling Team, was joined
by Matt White of North
Van, who was the team's
shier, Linda Hick and
Lee Vogue of Vancouver

who did the canocing,
and Cindy Manstier of
Burnaby (a National

Team marathoner) who
ran the jast segment of
the relay race. Winning
time for Team X= was
1:55:00 minutes, this was
faster than tast year’s win

by the same tcam. Dave
Murray's team, Sun
dialers came second

among the 170 teams with
a time of 2:01:30, third
place team, Tomorrow's
Heroes also had heavy
North Shore participation

Yics scored two runs in the bottom of
the seventh inning and went on to defeat

head coach in the national
Hockey League and the
eighth in Canuck history. He
joins the NHL club fresh on
the heels of a highly-
successful two-year stint as
coach of the Western League
Kamloops Oilers juniors, a

Pair for Coach House

IN NORTH Shore men’s fastball league
the Coach House earned a pair of wins
on strong pitching. A. Broad threw a
one hitter as the Coach House trounced

Duggan West 9-0; and G. Andrews his cause.
allowed 4 hits in a 1-0 victory over Big
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the Lynnwood Canadians 3-2, in nine W/V Esso
innings. L. Gouthro went 3-4 at the
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Queens Cross rallied in the sixth inn-
ing for 4 runs and went on to victory
over Epic Audio 8-3. T. Grimm pitched
the win and went 3-4 at the plate to help

LP T. Woodcock

N.S. Chiefs captured their first win
doubling Westview Esso 4-2. R. Bruce
had a pair of hits for the winners

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team he guided to the league
title this past season with a SO
and 22 win-loss record and a
semi-final berth in the
Memorial Cup series just
concluded this weekend.
LaForge’s Oilers lost the
semi-final to Ottawa which

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beats Lynnwood

ONLY THREE games were
played this past week in
LVWAC league action. Time
Out Sports defeated the Sun-
downers 10-2 behind the
strong pitching of Sharon
Dickson and excellent defen-
Sive play.

The second game saw the
meeting of the two Lynn-
wood Inn sponsored teams,
with Lynnwood Green com-
ing out on top of Lynnwood
Vellay, by a score Of 12-1].

Holly Atkinson and Va
Wright connected for home
runs for the losers while
Kathy Kunka, Janine Ban-
croft and Drell Roberts
cleared the bags for the win-
ners. At Kilmer Park

Johnston Construc
uion/ Western Conng downed
Earls Industry 11-3 with Lea
Young getting credit for the
win

LEAGUE STANDINGS

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Johnston/ Western 6 411 9
Sundowncrs 713 40 6
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As a former hockey and
football player, LaForge had
invitations to the camps of
the Edmonton Eskimos and
the Calgary Stampeders of
the CFL, but an asthmatic
condition ended any hopes of
a playing career and that’s
when he turned to coaching.
As recreation director for the
Enoch Indian Band near Ed-
monton, his first coaching
experience was with the
Enoch tomahawks with
whom he enjoyed much suc-
cess during his four-year stay
with the northern Alberta
native group. He capped it
off by capturing the Can-Am
Junior B Championship in
the 1979-80 season. From
there, it was on to the Junior
A

He went East in 1980-81

in the Cup

and guided the OHA Oshawa

Generals to a 35-30-3 record
and presided over current,

Regina Pats

Coaching percentage: .636

Oshawa Generals

Kamloops Oilers
Kamloops Oilers

Canuck Tony Tanti who
shattered Wayne Gretzky’s
OHA rookie record by scor-
ing 81 goals and 69 assists for
150 points. The fall of °81
saw LaForge go West again,
this time to take over the
coaching reins of the WHL
Regional Pats, leading that
junior club to a 48-24 record.
It was there, and later in
Kamloops, that LaForge
coached Canuck defenceman
Garth Butcher.

The following season, he
became coach/general
manager of the struggling
WHL Kamloops franchise
and, through a combination
of canny recruiting, wheeling
and dealing, held the Oilers
to third place in the WHL
West Division standings with
46 wins and 26 losses. The
dramatic 55-point leap in the
standings from the season
before when the club won
just 12 games set a league
record for improvement from

BILL LAFORGE

one year to the next.

Commenting on LaForge’s
appointment, Harry Neale
said: ‘‘] wanted a young, en-
thusiastic and = successful
coach. Bill LaForge reflects
those factors plus he’s a
motivator who’s got the abili-
ty to get teams to play up to
and often above their poten-
tial. He’s a communicator
with great rapport with his
players. And let’s face it —
the NHL’s getting younger
and younger every day.”’

About LaForge’s
cocaching style, Neale noted:
‘‘] did a lot of investigating
of Bill LaForge; I’ve watched
him handle practices and I’ve
seen him often in game situa-
tions and I like what I’ve
seen. All you have to do is
watch his teams play and you
can see that his players all put
out for him. And, I daresay,
if any player doesn’t put out,
he’s apt not to get along with
Mr. LaForge.”’

Bora: Edmonton, Alta., September 2, 1951

COACHING RECORD (Regular Season)

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