By
TERRY LAVENDER

The Nor-Wes Caps of
the B.C. Junior Hockey
League's coastal
division will start the
1980-81 season with a
mew owner, a new
manager, a new coach,
new playing times and,
the team hopes, a new
image.

The Caps will also be
affiliated with the champion
New Westminster Bruins of
the Western Junior Hockey
League. The team will be the
number one farm team for
the Bruins

North Vancouver
businessman Jim Harrigan
says he bought the tcam

because, “it looked like the
Caps were going down the
tube, and 1 wanted to keep
hockey on the North Shore.”

Harrigan says the team
had a problem last year with
eight different owners, no
rapport between the coach
and the general manager,
and a communications
problem both within the
organization and with the

public.
Things will be different
this year, he says, because

he is the sole owner of the
team, and because the new
coach and general manager

have gotten along well in the

past.

Merv Duggan, the new
genera) manager, and Vern
Molberg, who will coach the
team, have been working

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RUGBY FANS WERE delighted with the opportunity to see some top flight games, and what looked like a game of
follow the leader, on the North Shore last week as Capilano Rugby Cluh (in white) downed Saracens from Middlesex

County in England 23-9 Tuesday night. The North Shore club also played an exhibition match with the famous
Balmy Beach Rugby Club of Toronto on Thursday. (Ian Smith photo)

Nor-Wes Caps receive facelift

Only the name remains the same

together for years with
bantam and midget teams
from the North Shore Winter
Club. The midget team
reached the Canadian finals
on two occasions.

Molberg says he's con-
fident he'll be able to make
the step up to
junior hockey.

“I'm really looking for-
ward to it. [ve always had a
good relationship with kids.

“Truc, they're 19 and 20
years old, and may be doing
things different from the way
I want them done, but
they're not much different
from the 17 year olds I've
coached tn the past.”

Molberg and Harrigan say
most of the players on the
team will be from the North
Shore. Fourteen of last

coaching

year's Caps are cligible for
the team, and most are
expected to try to make the
team again.

The Caps will play out of
the North Vancouver
Recreation Centre. Training
camp starts September 3,
and the first game will be at
the Rec Centre, September
28, against Richmond.

The team will also play
two exhibition games against
the New Westminster
Bruins

Harrigans says 22 of the 28
home games will be held on
Sundays at 7 p.m. In the past
games) have — usuallytaken
place at § p.m. Fridays. The
club owner says the ncw
time will make it casier for

parcnts to take their children
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