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Our salute to minor hpckey Our colorful hockey past lit Minor Hockey Week In Cans da Tell thai to your neighbor and be might Say which Leu than a month ago The Herald phoned tit Ontario Minor Hockey to confirm the date Jan an Their stall answer question It took an embarrassing call from the two hours later we the Inform lion we wanted And so It goes Halton Hills has one of the highest per capita Involvement of minor hooker players In Canada There are hundreds families who breathe sleep and cat hockey during the winter month Hockey In Georgetown has a particularly eventful and colorful past claiming the The Home of Little NHL which began in Gordon was able to Maple Leaf Gardens president Conn Into sending some of bis Leaf stars like Charlie and Joe to town to referee games The Utile NHL waa the first organised minor hockey league In Canada to be beted NHL teams with each little player wearing the sweater number their favorite star The idea blossomed around Ontario and out West s original offer to sponsor a minor hockey tournament for Georgetown In the late 30t has been called the of all minor hockey tournaments Since then the town has been known as a hockey hotbed at each year we send our little ambassad ors to other communities while hotting a number of hockey tournaments ourselves The sport Is a character builder and should be teen as surb by parents players and coaches Everyone bene fits by participating We offer a word of encouragement to parents to not only support their child but your minor hockey executive what you can do to help Volunteers for minor sports are hard to come by and there Is always an annual plea for parents to organise practices look after sweaters and do a bit of phoning We agree with former house league president Tom DavMson who once is there are a lot of people out there In minor hockey If we can all pull together everyone doe have fun It a community effort and II a learning A hockey family Mom manages team Some days being a hockey mom Is It seems bat all you re doing la hauling the kids to and from the arenas With two boys who are active hockey players Irene McCauley of Georgetown knows what thai a all about With practices and games were out to the arena practically every night of tie week and sometimes they have twirthlngs a night for them she said Despite the demands It makes on her tune Mrs looks at hockey positively think hockey a a very good for children along with other children weir teammates and it teaches them competitiveness and sportsmanship It a a good character builder for when theyre older she sold McCauley was six when be was started of f in the North Halton Hockey School Now 12 and playing in the minor age division team been beaten yet this year in rep league play Brother Blaine 7 plays on the novice learn with eight year He started hockey schooling he was four ENCOURAGED been encouraged and helped by their dad John who was only when asked be the goalie for the St Catharines Junior A team Mr has for the Nation al Hockey League for a number of years and is currently director of NHL Officials With mom acting manager for Blaine team the whole McCauley family except for nineyear old Bridget won t allow her to Mrs McCauley said Bridget gets to play with her brothers on the neighbor backyard Is Involved in hockey She like to play but her father rink They let her play goalie On her own she Into competitive swimming With the Halton Hills Blue Fins following In the of her aunt Winnie Roach who was first Canadian In 1951 to swim the hah channel At home Uteres a lot of talking about hockey Mrs McCauley said SPORTS BIG I a sports nut myself you Know Sports is a big thing in our Tth being Its not Mrsi- McCauley is concerned about the academic life of her children 1 think sometimes hockey expects too much of the children she said The hockey sometimes wants to be an exclusive club I think the coaches could be a little more flexible in allowing for children who have obligations to school activities also Mrs wont hockey to dominate her children Uvea What happens to the child then 13 or who Isnt making it to the minor midgets like maybe he had elsewhere she said Wes like many boys his age would like to make the NHL Keen on hotkey be identifies a lot with Wayne Mrs said Blaine is Just as keen However the McCauley are stressing the university route for their children They don want them left out In the cold after without the doors an education provides A sports career is not forever they realize Being mom means keeping the balance between hockey and school and other activities in the family lireeven though some days It seems Just to be chauff the children to hockey practice and games The local arenas are a second heme for hockey mom Irene McCauley She busy most every night her sons left and Blaine right to hockey games and practices Daughter Bridget 9 Is competitive In the Hahm Hub Plus bat plays goalie with her brothers the rink the HERALD Home Newspaper Halton Hills Established Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manafter DAVID BOB Editor Advertising Manager Lessons to be learned from minor hockey Pilote It wasn t until he was playing Junior A In St Catharines that former NHL great Pierre first realized the Important role minor hockey can play in skill development for the record would go on to grealness in 13 career with the Chicago Black Hawks He was awarded Ihe James Trophy as the NHL rearguard on three occasions and in 1975 ho was inducted to the Hockey Hal of Fame In Toronto Catharines however Pilote had managed his way strictly on the superior natural ability God had blessed him with Staff Comment At Ihe Junior A level however he was forced to compete with and against players who had advanced through what was then arguably the best minor hockey setup in the province Having grown up In rural Quebec benefitted from the teachings of organized minor hockey The shock of that first Junior A camp was such that he still recalls it today THE DIFFERENCE Looking back that where I could really see tlw difference Pilote who at age 53 now owns a Toronto luggagemanufacturing firm is a Hills resident said In a recent interview That team had some of the best midget and juvenile players around and they had been wellcoached They knew about positional play how to take a pass and how to take a man out All I had was ability I had to leant to skate and pass because they were better than Ami I IB They were only 17 and some of them IS Because he enjoyed such a distinguished career it is easy for Pilote to look back on yesteryear His comments observations and comparisons are objective and provide a true insight Into the worth of organisations such as the Hockey players are better today because of minor hockey says They are more skilled with better equipment The biggest difference is in the way they shoot the puck though SHOOTING When I played you had maybe four guys on your team who could shoot Now you have 15 guys who can really whii it Because they have been taught On a more personal level believes that he spent almost three seasons in the minors at the beginning of his career because he lacked a minor hockey background If I had been exposed to minor hockey I would have Jumped directly to the NHL he assures Aside from skill development though Pilote feels that minor hockey has much to offer PIERRE Minor hockey takes a boy off the street where those diversions are If a boy Is playing hockey he going to look after his body It will per form better all youngsters not just the talented few There are moral lessons that can best be learned while participating In team sports he believes that stand a lad well in future life Both of his own boys Pierre Jr and Dave played minor hockey Dave played In GMHA rep system with most of the young men that currently comprise the lineup of the Junior Gemini The elder is proud of the way his boys turned out and he doesn overlook the Import the hockey played In their lives There are so many forks on the road for a youngster Pilole said so many things that a young man can be Influenced by Minor hockey takes a boy off the street where those diversions are If a boy Is playing hockey he going to look after his body so it will perform better He not going to bed at clock in the morning boozing It up all night Minor hockey Pilote continues can be an opportunity for a youngster to learn about winning and losing about the Importance of physical filness and about working with others to see a project through to its completion In short minor hockey helps a lot of youngsters grow up the right way Business sponsorships help keep minor hockey alive Kumtw Jsnaary My first assignment as a reporter was to cover a Junior hockey game in Blind River I was barely an hour old as a scribe for the Elliott Lake Standard My engine was still hot from the long haul up from Toronto my editor instructions hasty and vague and I was scared because two weeks earlier 1 d never heard of Blind River So my first Inklings on what made the local economy solvent the movers and shakers of business were written on the backs of about labroadshouldered Blind River hockey players Blind River may be a small town with a fraction of Georgetown s population but It not hockey poor thanks to dedicated sponsors Hockey sweaters in Halton Hills provide an Industrial directory of their own too For large and small businesses the value of sponsoring an entire club or a sweater extends beyond the advertising impact Barrager Cleaners support a number of minor hockey ball and soccer clubs and actively support Georgetown Sure we get a lot of good public relations benefit rotn It Owner Dave said But il makes us feel good when we do something for the kids Team sponsorship has been a tradition with the business Daves father Don was a founding member of the Little NHL a predecessor to the current minor hockey set up Dave can fondly recall playing minor hockey The way I look at It somebody paid my way hen he said Now It my turn to put something back Large corporations like Georgetown Standard Products are Involved in minor hockey and a list of other youthoriented sponsorship as long as one a arm Standard Products Karl said the company doens t count on sponsorships to drum up business It done strictly with good ate In mind Lloyd of Acton Nellia Construction ihe sponsor of the Construction Major Atoms said sponsorship Is important because it Staff Comment keeps sports alive and growing Hockey Is the best recreation going for young kids said It teaches them good sportsmanship If some guy Is willing to spend a fewhourswilhthesekidscoachlngthem Ihe least we can do Is help financially Georgetown a AE office also sponsors soccer and ball clubs and house league and rep hockey teams The more sponsors manager Finn commented the better the sports programs Sports sponsorships he added create opportunities for kids to develop themselves mentally and physically IflhavBoneregret it a that I don get out to see the games as much as I like to In the heat of the game sponsorships are sometimes forgotten by the budding young Parks and Robinsons But think of how dull organized hockey would be without them Haltons History Georgetown Paul Pop popped his first as a Red Wing in Montreal last Wednesday when the Wings rolled over the Hate who has been paired with Bob on the Detroit defence was a standout Saturday Detroit and Toronto played to a 1 tie In Saturday night ton den 1 Pop Is the second Georgetowner to rise through the local nor hockey system to the NHL Bob Goldham best known for revolution ing the role of block shots was Oil f Twelve cams take part In third annual Georgetown M Hockey tournament which occupy Memorial Arena for three days next month Chuck Lcfky who scored one of Canada goals In the Russia Canada hockey game in Maple Leaf Garden Sunday be remembered by many re Chuck was He popular captain of West Bantams when they took part in Bantam Hockey Tournament In Georgetown In picture appeared In the Herald when he tournament denl Red Asscltine and his wife Jean with a bronze buffalo on behalf of he team The George own Midgets won two games in as many nights Inst week by dumping the host M club opened the scoring from Ron Jerry I counted from and Bruce Dav Paul from John McNally Jerry Nell from Paul and Ray Inglis Ron from Benny Jurl Kudrasovs from Bruce and Jerry Neil and Dave GuiM f shed scoring from Ray fits scored a 1 win over Metal II ps had two goals for his team ass by Kcv cocks Depco got their goal from Rick wood North Hal on Motors outdistanced be Snowmob 1c Club In house league hockey action North go their goals from Terry Samcrvlllc Scott Mike Jones assisted by Scot Pcntesco J dford Mike Jones Snowmob goals came from Peter McKlnnon and Paul assisted by Jim Gordon Real were blanked by Construct on Goals for came from Gord Miller M Rob Bob Donaldson and Rom Jeffrey The MVP for was Richard ok le he MVP was M Rot The Georgetown Un ted Rent AH Minor Pee Wees has a bad week lis both their games The learn turned one of he poorest performances of the los here last Tuesdiy Br nt th an effort was the only Georgetown I or able to tally Wayne Morrow scored Georgetown only goal with a marker the third against Milton last week in a IF score In m nor 1 ockey house league action at the midget level II Hock notched two goals while Warren had three in Criterion Carpet romp over Georgetown Chrysler Pat Prim era no had the lone goal for Chrysler assisted by Hank Hamilton lYFUl In Major Pee Wee Flash Taxi out maneuvered Joe Gulf Brent Brasi led the Tax team four goals Jeff Duguay had two Rick and Brent Barnes scored one goal In a tight nor Pee Wee contest Murray Motors edged Motors Doug Stamp scored winning II seconds remaining in the game after excellent pass from Andy Doming and Matthew Why do you like playing minor hockey Who Is your favor lie NHL player- Centre Its a little easier to score goals MASON rep he has about Goal I like goals this season I handle the a lot Ike shooting against from the good hard goalies It gives It gives me a good a challenge challenge I I the position of goalie depends on you when you good you I get gratitude the end f JAMIE II Right Wing I like skat on ice and getting goals Just an Interest In the sport no bodychecking Then a lot of action I Favorite star Hay ward NAP BENITO CHRIS Goal I like the LeftWing I like the the scoring action the excitement else Favorite star Mike