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re v * Wednesday, January 5, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER . ' " - . pvsau* J YOU WOULDN'T TRUST JUST ANYONE TO DRIVE YOUR CAR, SO WHY TRUST JUST M Y COMPANY TO INSURE IT? W ayne M cG ill 2345 W y ra o ft R d # 2 1 , Oakville ST1 847-5671 An Oakville Beaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON 845-3824 (Extension 2 5 5 ) Fax:337-5567 Photos by Peter C. McCusker There was plenty to celebrate for the Blades as they rung in the New Millennium with a 7-6 win over the high fly ing Milton Merchants on Sunday. With plenty of reason to cheer, here, are new Blades coach Jay Anderson (left), who got off to a great start, and Stu MacCrimmon who scored against Milton. Blades stats pack ONTARIO JUNIOR A - west division (Jan. 3) GP W L T OTLGF GEORGETOWN 37 25 8 1 180 3 MILTON 35 24 7 1 3 179 BRAMPTON 35 20 9 3 3 156 STREETSVILLE 34 20 11 3 0 148 BURLINGTON 34 18 14 2 0 119 HAMILTON 35 17 14 3 1 174 OAKVILLE 34 11 17 6 0 134 MISSISSAUGA 38 11 21 2 4 140 BRAMALEA 34 8 20 2 4 91 BUFFALO 36 10 24 1 1 119 ' one point awarded fo r overtime loss. league standings GA Pts GAA 134 54 3.62 113 52 3.23 129 46 3.69 139 43 4.09 113 38 3.32 152 38 4.34 177 28 5.21 177 28 4.66 125 22 3.68 173 22 4.81 PIM 24.92 27.36 27.03 22.80 26.26 15.40 23.37 17.78 20.83 15.06 O N TARIO JU N IO R A · west division scoring leaders PLAYER ANDY ROZAK JEFF SEEDS STACE PAGE TREVOR LARGE PHIL BARSKI JASON KUCZMANSKI MIKE KNOEPFLI SCOTT MACDONALD JOSH SOARES IAN MALCOLM KEN SOUSA CHRIS BRUSSA -TOI M IK E TARANTINO JOE TENUTE JOE GUENTHER VICTOR SPADAFORA SIMON MANGOS ELLIOTT ALTB ERG LARRY MONIZ TRISTIN FA1RBARN BOB JA G G A R D ACE MORIN MIKE WHEELIHAN JEFF LOUCKS SCOTT ANDERSON RYAN EBY ALEX WARD RICHARD PEVERLEY JASON DUBBLESTYNE GP 34 33 34 34 27 36 36 36 32 33 34 34 33 G 26 21 33 34 18 22 23 24 23 27 20 17 21 35 17 35 29 35 16 31 6 33 18 34 20 33 17 33 12 33 32 36 35 25 30 33 33 14 13 15 23 13 13 14 9 A Pts PIM Team 40 66 34 STREETSVILLE 43 64 90 GEORGETOWN 31 64 28 GEORGETOWN 26 60 57 BRAMPTON 39 57 27 MILTON 34 56 26 BUFFALO 32 55 54 GEORGETOWN 30 54 6 GEORGETOWN 28 51 43 HAMILTON 24 51 54 MILTON 31 51 39 BRAMPTON 33 50 48 STREETSVILLE 28 49 20 O A K V ILLE 30 47 20 GEORGETOWN 16 45 15 BUFFALO 28 44 8 HAMILTON 37 43 8 BRAMPTON 24 42 18 MILTON 22 42 100 STREETSVILLE 23 40 22 GEORGETOWN 28 40 30 O A K V ILLE 25 39 2 HAMILTON 25 38 24 MILTON 22 37 24 MISSISSAUGA 13 36 34 HAMILTON 20 33 33 MILTON 20 33 32 BRAMALEA 19 33 9 MILTON 24 33 58 MISSISSAUGA New coach has good start to the new Millennium By Matt Nimmo SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The Oakville Blades showed new signs o f life as they dropped the highly ranked M ilton M erchants 7-6 in Junior A hockey action Sunday night. "We played the system ," said new B lades' coach Jay Anderson, commenting on his team 's new strategy. "We hit them with defensive zone coverage." Through the first two periods, Milton found it hard to get to the B lades' net for an opportunity to score. Oakville played a tight checking game, and capitalized on their own chances. Anderson is keen on showing the league a new Blades' squad. "If the players play the system, the league will find out we aren't a seventh place team." Coach Anderson was also unsure o f what could happen in this game, considering the 10-1 pasting the Blades took in Milton before Christmas. "I didn't know what to expect." Anderson was pleased with the play of goalie M att Collaton who made key saves when they were needed. Blades' forward Stu M acCrimmon start ed things off with a power-play goal in the latter stages of the first period. M ilton tied it up, but M acCrimmon added his second goal o f the game on a sweet move in fjont of the M erchants' net, giving the Blades a 21 lead. M att Collaton made a great glove save off a shot by a wide open M erchant, John Nadalin, as he skated in on a breakaway. Mike Tarantino scored on a B lades' two on one rush, giving the Blades a 3-1 lead. Collaton made another spectacular save, sprawling across the net, stopping an open M erchant forward. Tarantino scored his sec ond goal of the game, to make it 4-1, when he grabbed a loose puck at the blue line, skated in and slid the puck through M erchants' goalie Joel Cameron. The Blades took their three goal lead into the third period, when they made it 5-1 on a shot from the point from Peter Lang. Joel Cameron was pulled after the goal, and back-up goalie Anthony M arshall took over between the pipes. M ilton began their com eback, scoring three straight goals, narrowing the lead to 54. O akville regained a two goal lead, at 6-4, when M ike Lukajic received a pass from Tarantino and one-tim ed it into the net. With close to 3:30 left in the third period, Blades' captain M ike G ardner took a smart tripping penalty when a M ilton forw ard had a potential breakaway. M ilton pulled their goalie for an extra attacker at the time o f the penalty, and it w orked as they scored with under 90 sec onds rem aining to make it 6-5. M ike Tarantino com pleted his hat-trick by putting the puck into the em pty M ilton net for a shortlived 7-5 lead. M ilton fought to the end, closing the gap to the final 7-6 verdict, with 25 seconds rem aining. O akville had goals from Tarantino (3), M acC rim m on (2), L ang, and L ukajic. A ssists were from Bob Jaggard (3), Lukajic (2), Tarantino (2), Lang, M ike N agai, Chris Knighton, Perry Ryerson, D erek Klowak, and M acCrim m on. M ilton had m arkers from Ryan Carrigan (2), Kevin Arruda, Frank Fazio, Chris Kerr, and Phil Barski. H elpers were from M ike W heelihan (3), Peverly (2), Ryan (See Blades' page D2) GP 11 MIKE TARANTINO 33 15 BOB JAGGARD 33 16 MIKE LUKAJIC 33 19 STU MACCRIMMON 31 ROB KAPUSCINSKI 28 25 CHRIS KNIGHTON 32 18 MIKE PORTER 23 9 PERRY RYERSON 17 20 JASON SAJKO 30 7 CHRIS PETHICK 33 14 MARC P1NIZZOTTO 30 26 JASON PINIZZOTTO 9 GAVIN MILLIGAN 19 21 DEREK KLOWAK 15 22 EUGENE REPA 0 24 PETER LANG 30 23 MIKE GARDNER 19 DAVID MENNIE 7 SCOTT WESTLAKE 12 28 ALEX HETMANCZUK 14 4 STEVE KINNUNEN 23 17 ADAM GOWER 23 WILL BARLOW 2 27 MIKE NAGAI 4 JEFF CURRAN 11 8 BRANDON CORDUA 24 6 AARON COLES 4 RYAN SMITH 1 JUSTIN HOUSE 1 KEVIN SAVILLE 1 MIKE FOLLAND 1 BRIAN PESCETTI I ANDREW HOLMAN I MARK MATEJA 1 GAVIN MCGRATH 1 BRETT MCGRATH 1 RYAN MURDOCH 1 MITCH GASCOYNE 1 BRETT GARTH 2 KARL DELMORE 2 PHIL BERROURAND 2 10 DAVE BURT 3 31 MATTCOLLATON 14 1 MATT VIOLIN 25 TEAM TEAM TOTALS (Dec. 29) A PTS G 21 28 49 12 28 40 21 10 31 12 12 24 8 15 23 6 14 20 5 14 19 10 8 18 3 12 15 9 6 15 3 11 14 4 7 11 4 7 11 0 7 7 2 5 7 2 7 5 4 2 6 2 2 4 1 3 4 2 4 2 0 4 4 0 3 3 1 1 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 127 218 345 PIM 20 30 27 35 6 60 66 28 26 24 89 18 37 6 21 16 38 18 8 19 68 26 0 0 41 6 16 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 12 0 4 8 781 POS FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD DEF FWD FWD FWD DEF DEF FWD DEF DEF DEF HT W T 5-10 183 5-6 170 6-3 230 6-0 185 6-1 192 6-2 183 6-0 190 5-11 189 5-11 176 6-0 175 5-10 165 6-1 6-1 6-1 6-1 6-0 6-0 6-1 5-11 185 YOB 1980 1980 1981 1980 1981 1982 1980 1980 1981 1982 1982 1982 168 1982 180 1982 200 1979 194 1980 190 1982 195 1980 165 1982 FWD 5-11 DEF 6-4 DEF 5-11 205 215 165 1980 1979 1982 GOAL GOAL Atom Hornets capture Mississauga tourney championship 170 1981 170 1982 GOAL GOAL 5-11 GOAL, 6-1 (goalies) 1 MATT VIOLIN 31 MATTCOLLATON BRIAN PESCETTI MARK MATEJA MITCH GASCOYNE M IN. G .P G A 1289 21.48 105 630 10.50 53 16 0.27 4 20 0.33 4 50 0.83 5 AVG. SO 4.89 0 5.05 0 15.00 0 12.00 0 6.00 0 POS GOAL GOAL GOAL GOAL GOAL He's made the national team Oakville Trafalgar High School OAC student Patrick Dessaulles got the gift he wanted for Christmas. He attended Canada's national junior rugby try-out camp in British Columbia and before coming home just before Christmas he was informed he had made the team. The Atom BB Hornets won the prestigious Mississauga Girls Hockey Tournament. BACK ROW: Jim Snedden (assistant coach), Taylor Laughlin, Erin Mitzel, Stephanie Secord, Melissa Snedden, Vanessa Mirabelli (trainer), Larry Laughlin (head coach), and Mike Secord (assistant coach). FRONT ROW: Stefanie Wilson, Roxanne Johnson, Brittany Court, Kaitlyn Wheeler, Sarah Grigor, Traci Galbraith, Tenille Clarke, Megan Wanless, Monique Kahnert, Jackie Szarka and Charlotte Capaldo. - PHILTHY'S S P O TLIG H T: Patrick Dessaulles The Atom BB Air Canada Oakville Hornets captured the championship at the prestigious Mississauga Girl's Hockey Tournament on Dec. 28th. In the championship game, the Hornets smothered the Vaughan Flames 7-1. A relentless first period flurry saw the Hornets continually buzz the Vaughan net resulting in a 5-0 first period lead before the Flames countered with one near the end of the first period. Scoring in the first for the Hornets were Roxanne Johnson (2), Melissa Sneddon, Monique Kahnert, and Kaitlyn Wheeler. Assists went to Stephanie Secord (2), Tenille Clarke, Melissa Snedden, Brittany Court, Taylor Laughlin, and Sarah Grigor. In the second period, Traci Galbraith notched an unassisted goal to move Oakville ahead 6-1 and Melissa Snedden rounded out the scoring in the 3rd period, with Tenille Clarke picking up the assist. In the four game round-robin, the Hornets finished with a 3-1 record, good enough to advance to the championship game. Game one on Dec. 26th saw the Hornets down the host Mississauga Chiefs 3-1. Oakville notched a goal in each periJSee 'Atom BB' page D2) P h ilth y's S potligh t Teams receive a $50 g ift certificate