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Congratulations to two teams who demonstrated the art of good clean fast hockey in Pee Wee House League action. Emiels struck first with Reid McTaggart finding the mesh from a rebound shot from Tim Wray. Period two saw Larocque tying the score. Jeff Harrison fed Troy Hazeldean a perfect pass in the slot which Troy one-timed. Once again Emiels took the lead as the Larocque squad failed to clear the puck in front of Tom Keeble. This was Reid McTaggart's second goal of the game from Alex McLaughlin and Teams put on quite a display Larocque knotted the score again at 9:26 of the third period. David Bonser had a very strong game stopping Joel Phoenix four times in close before Joel slid one past him. Again Jeff Harrison assisted. Hustler Awards were hard to pick as 27 boys played at 100 percent with defence on both teams being extremely steady. Jeff Harrison for Larocques had a strong game on the wing with forechecking that resulted in two 8. ) For Emiels, Ben Russell hustled up and down his wing forcing the defence to make Tim Wray. quick passes. Enjoying the great outdoors. Wherever ere Is a-patch of Ice, You'll b be sure to find somebody skating or playing a game of shinny hockey. You don't have to go any farther than the Port gory waterfront. The was magic. It d enough for any hockey player to retire on but John Sia i Symes roe) it as a great stop along the road he's still travelling. With five minutes left in the gold medal game of the 1991 World Junior hockey champi in Slaney scored on a shot from the left point to give Canada a 3-2 lead over the Soviets. The Canadians hung on for the victory as they so often do and the scene was remarkable. Flag-waving fans cheered wildly as the players collapsed in each others' arms, exhausted from the games and the burden of expectations. Three years later as he finished practice with the Washington Capitals, Slaney recalled the. moment fondly but not in great detail. "The thing | remember most is that Kent Manderville was the first one to jump on me. It had to be one of the biggest guys on the team." The rest - the time, the play, the other scorers - are items for a scrap book that's now got a few chapters from a busy life at the rink. John Slaney is a proud Newfoundlander. He grew up playing in the Celtics minor hockey system of St. John's where he says there OTS 3 ck of gost ions but soe was plenty of fun. "Just pond hockey," he says. A unig description for playing just It's also very Canadian for the games to get serious. By the time he was 12, work of Slaney's abilities had reached Toronto. He was invited to join the Mariboros minor system but he wasn't ready to leave the Rock. At least not full time. Travel was. on the agenda, though because inorder to get tough competition, his teams were ' always on the road. They'd leave the island and play three games in a day, six in four days, and once spent almost a month on the west coast. When they weren't playing, the kids were at bottle drives and - selling raffle tickets to pay for the next trip. In their spare time they . . . well, apparently there wasn't any. At 16, when he'd been selected by the Comwall Royals of the Ontario Hockey League, the young defenceman moved away from home and says it wasn't too hard because he'd already travelled so much. Two years later Slaney was selected again. This time in the first round of the NHL draft by the Capitals (his biggest thrill to date, and he's had a couple) and was invited to join Team Canada for the World Juniors. *I probably watched the video ten times right after it happened, 'cause everybody wanted to see it with me but | haven't in a long time." Maybe that's because the only going | back John's or planned is some day to New: "Not only b my fami brother and three sisters) still lives there yar The people ar so friendly. It's just a great place." © But for now Washington is where it's at and the 21-year-old is working hard to secure a new contract. He's not playing three games a day anymore but John's still focused full speed ahead. Perhaps that's why even the best highlights in the rear view mirror seem sketchy. "Jim Hughson is sponsored by YAMAHA The Power To Satisfy. (416) OS6- 4437 Tweens work hard Pineridge Tweens first meeting of the season with Mariposa ended with Port taking a hard fought 5-4 win. , Our girls roared to a four goal first period nari looked like they would cruise to an easy vi / Leanne opened the scoring on a nice solo effort. Two minutes later Lisa laid a beauty pagh to Leanne who scored. Diana put rush Mariposa came out in the second to play ringette and did they ever!! Before Port knew it the opposition scored four times to tie the game. With two minutes in the game us in the game until Cathy started a great rush by passing to Lisa who passed to Leanne Mari Unf 1, - who put the ring past the netminder. Port received penalty with-33 seconds left - the clock. Down now by two players, our girls Tought tenaciously to preserve the win. The Tweens next match pitted them against a chippy, hard- hitting Pickering squad. All our girls rose to the oécasion, refusing to be intimidated. Forwards*Mary, Jen D. Lisa, Leanne, Jackie and Amy skated miles, pressing the Pickering defense and back-checking their forwards. Cathy, Jen I. Melissa and Diana played very strong defense, always pestering the Pickering forwards.» = And what to say about our goalie Jen Hammond? She was for wins of 5-4 and 1-0 terrific, stupendous, just simply fantastic. Both teams fought tooth and nail for a period and a half before Leanne scored the only goal of the game after receiving an awesome pass from Mary. The last five minutes saw our girls give everything they had, fighting to the last second to win the game. Minor Hockey hopes to re-coup Insurance costs Port Pefty Minor Hockey has paid an additional $3,360 to include all players in the national insurance program of the CAHA. Port Perry Minor Hockey president Grant Laird said the directors agreed to pay this amount at a meeting last week and also agreed not to pass this $3,360 on to parents of kids in minor hockey this season. Instead, he told the Citizen, CROSS COUNTRY SKIING BEGINNERS 8 INTERMEDIATE B EXPERT TRAILS 23 1/2 km. Hl Open 7 Days a Week ll 9 AM to 4:30 PM SKIING @ WEDDINGS @ SEMINARS @ BANQUET HALL 655-3754 Minor Hockey will attempt to make up the $3,360 through 50/60 draws and the sale of Nevada tickets at all playoff and ent games at the Scugog from now til the end of the season "We hop® parents will support these draws. The feeling among (the directors) was that it would not be fair to pass this (the $3,360) cost directly on tothe parents, just because it was imposed on Minor Hockey," he said. This $8,360 was not in the 1993-94 budget because Minor Hockey only learned it would have to paid after an OMHA meeting in Toronto in late November. At the start of the season, insurance for each player was $14. The CAHA package pushed the player premiums to $21.90 each, for a total un- increase of $3,360. 'Mr. Laird said the Minor Hockey directors considered 'several options on how to pay this additional amount, but opted to attempt to raise it through the 50/60 draws and sale of Nevada tickets. As for next season, he said the additional insurance costs 'will have to be built into the cost of player registration "fees. -