t tet \ ER BPs Sept RTT Pa Photo submitted WEST VANCOUVER Devils made history as they beat North Shore Panthers 1-nil in overtime te win the U-13 Coastal Premier Cup A final. The championship marked the first-ever Premier Cup title won by a West Vancouver team. Team members are (front row, left to right): Jennifer Dean, Katherine Jensen, Kelly Frith, Michelle Samuda, Shahrazad Joharifard, Stephanie Falls, Cidney Peck, Stephanie Westwood and Ciara McLoughlin. (Back row, left to right): Sandi Cobb (manag- er), Kelly Schwitzer, Jessica Horning, Christine Hardie, Eric A. Keller (coach), Ashtey Dunn, Christina Keller, Felicity Cobb, John Horning (coach) and Erin Gormican. Spectator DO YOU realize that the last time Montreal Canadiens failed to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs, the “Vancouver Canucks were still six months short of playing their first ever NHL game? __. Tt was So long ago, Pierre Trudeau was only in his third year as the country’s head knock, the FLQ crisis and the murder of Pierre Laporte were just around the cor- ner, the U.S. was up to its neck in the Vietnam War and I was able to- buy a brand new Volvo wagon for . $5,000. ; ignominy. Without Montreal the Stanley Cup circus is like salt with- out pepper, back bacun without eggs, MacNei! without Lehrer, Steve Young without Jerry Rice, Wayne Gretzky without Jari Kurri. This year will be only the ninth -time since the NHL was formed in 1917-18 that the Canadiens have not taken part in post-season play. And five of those occasions were way back in the 1920s. This will be only the third time in the fast 50 years they've been able to book tee times the day following the end of the reg- ular schedule. In this same half-cen- tury they’ve been to the Cup final 26 times and have won it on 19 of those occasions. If there's a team in any other league. in any other sport. able to boast of such long-term suc- cess, the public has not been told about it. Claude Ruel, x roly-poly little guy and a long-serving Canadiens employee as a minor league coach and head of scouting. was the coach that year of 1969-70. And why not? He had taken them to the champi- onship the year before, This past weekend he went into hospital with a bad heart attack, Coincidence? Al MacNeil, another Jongtime faithful servant in the Montreal organization, succeeded Ruel halfway through the follawing sea- son and the Canadiens won another Cup. From the penthouse to the out- house and back to the penthouse in a matter of three years, A reluctant inheritor of the job, MacNeil gave way to Scotty | Bowman in 1971-72 and the team went on to its most fabulous skate since the 1950s. During Bowman's cight years -— five Cup wins, four of them consecutive. These were the years the expan- sion Canucks were, with the excep- tion of a couple of seasons, the NHL’s falling-on-their-faces cham- See Canada's page 13 NORTH SHORE TRANSMISSION ® Clutch Repairs e Auto & Manual Transmission WEST Vancouver Devils didn't make a deal with their namesake inthe U-13 teani's 1- 0 overtime win against North Shore Panthers, but the suc- cess of the girls’ squad certain- ly hints at divine intervention, By Andrew McCredie Sports Reporter The Devils wrote their own page of West Vancouver soceer history as they won the Provincial Coastal Premier Cup. The chanipionship marked the first-ever Premier Cup lithe by a West Vinicouver team, To adh to their win, the team wis also named the Most Sportsmanlike team at the Coquitlam tournament, Ce-couch Eric Keller describes the Devils 1995 campaign as a “Cinderella” season. “The ‘A’ Cup represents the high- est level of soccer available to our youth players not only in B.C, but in DONE IN LESS THAN 29 MINUTES ONE'S FREE! OR THE NEXT Includes parts and labour Canada” Keller said. “This team had to play through three playott rounds to reach this year's final,” The Devils trip to the finals may have been fonger than the Panthers (who received a first-round bye), but thar’s not to say the Panthers didn’t tise to the occasion, Facing a tough Burnaby team, the Panthers won their opening round match 2-1, Devils’ goalkeeper Shahrazad Joharifurd proved the difference in the Cup final as she stymied any attempt by Panther forwards, She was named the Devils’ outstanding player for the tournament. 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