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inney leads Flames to win

Left winger scores hat-trick in
Pacific Junior League action

ONE OF the
motivators in
“revenge.

By A.P. McCredie
Sports Reporter

greatest
sport is

Revenge can come in many
forme. to silence the fans who are
expecting more from you; to
prove the critics wrong who say
you don’t belong in the league; or
to show a team that traded you
that they made a mistake.

Saturday night at the North
Shore Winter Club, Mark Finney
exacted some sweet revenge on the
team that dealt him away over the
summer layoff.

The West Vancouver native
scored a hat-trick in the third
period to lead his new team, the
North Shore Flames, over his old
team, the Grandview Steelers, 6-3
in Pacific Junior International
Hockey. League play.

In this cellar-dwelling battle of
the eight-team league — both
teams have been struggling so far
this season — the first 40 minutes
of play saw both tears showing
moments of tight, fast-paced ac-
tion, with crisp passing and good
skating. :

Both teams also showed mo-
ments of inconsistency, taking
dumb penalties and making
defensive errors in their own ends.

The first period ended in a
scoreless tie, though forwards
Gordie Pryde and Andrew Wilson
of the Flames had a couple of ex-
cellent scoring chances.

’ The second period opened with
a player from each team in the
penalty box, with the Steelers’ hav-
.ing a man advantage seven sc-
conds after the face-off.

Wilson, a UBC student in his
third year with the Flames, scored
a short-handed goal on a two-
on-one crossing pass in the open-
ing minute, giving the Flames a
short-lived lead.

Stil in the first 60 seconds,
Grandview’s Travis Cahill beat a
sprawling Vikram Gupta in the
* Flames goal to even the game.

Two minutes later the Flames
answered back when the Grand-
view goalie iook a Jacques
Plante-like risk and ventured out
to his blue line to retrieve a puck

GAME OF
THE WEEK

cleared by a Flames defenceman.

Pryde beat the Grandview
goalie to the puck, made a quick
pass to a trailing Randy Strange,
who made no mistake and put the
puck in the gaping Grandview. net.

Still just four minutes into the
second period, Grandview assis-
tant captain Craig Knopp tied the
score Off a rebound from a Dean
Townsend shot.

There was no scoring in the re-
mainder of the middle period, but
the Flames displayed some well-
disciplined penalty killing — Rob
Tadey in particular — when Jamie
Douglas received a _ five-minute
major at the 15-minute mark.

fn the waning minutes of the
period, the Flames were applying
relentless pressure on the Grand-
view goal crease, finally finding
the mark with just 16 seconds to
play. Wilson scored his second
goal of the night, assisted by
Pryde.

The Steelers had replied to
every Flames goal with one of
their own, but with just 16 se-
conds left in the period they were
content to go into the locker-
room down a goal. .

The third period belonged to
the Flames, and in particular to
the Flames left-winger Mark Fin-
ney.

Finney scored all three of the
third-period goals, lifting the
Flames to a much-needed, and on
this night, well-deserved victory,
doubling the Steelers 6-3.

Ron Burrows, North Shore
Flames vice-president, said that a
major factor in the team’s slow
start was the loss of their head
coach immediately prior to the
start of the season.

John Wiltsie stepped down
from his coaching position for
persona! reasons.

His replacements, former midg-
et coaches Aldo Bruno and Greg
Swecera, are hoping that the
Flames’ Saturday night win will be
a turning point in what is still a
very young season.)

The Flames play in Abbstsford
on Friday night, then host Poco
on Saturday night at 9 p.m. at the
North Shore Winter Club.

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NEWS photo Paul McGrath

NORTH SHORE Flames forward Rob Tadey winds up for a shot on Flames goaltender Greg Burrows
in preparation for their Saturday night showdown with the Grandview Steelers. The Junior B Flames
won the game 6-3, with West Vancouver native Mark Finney registering a hat-trick in the third

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