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The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 8

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The Gazettei
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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8
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EARLY EDITION CC n)fn o) BEST JHE GAZETTE I MONTREAL I FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2003 I SECTION EDITOR: STU COWAN I 514 9872475 I scowanthegazette.canwest.com BRYDEN'S BID TO BUY SENATORS OFF, TEAM ON BLOCK, C5 SECTION NHL SCOREBOARD C4 WEATHER C6 Grant learns 77V IV boxing jC i v- i I rW If 1 I 17' I Af LI kA v3J LrvS The Canadiens are in need of a pick i Wi Wild 6, Canadiens 3 1 Scoring explosion favours visitors in loosely played game moments of last night's loss to costly mistake leading to Minnesota's second goal There was nothing fancy and nothing new leading to the opening goal by Park. NHL hockey 101. All it takes is outhustling the Canadiens around their net, the goal coming from a wraparound even while Mathieu Garon was trying to get in position for the shot to no avail (Garon, as you might have noticed, spends a lot of time on the ice.) The Canadiens made several line changes for this one in an attempt to get more offence out of a team that had scored a meagre 22 goals in its previous 12 games, but none was evident in a first period. Normally, you don't do it with only seven shots. Then (sigh) there's the defensive mistakes, such as rookie Mike Komisarek putting what was to have been a clearing pass on Walz's stick.

From there, no taptat RED FISHER THE GAZETTE Tick, tock tick, tock the sound you hear is time ticking off in the Canadiens' pursuit of a playoff berth. What you're also hearing is: when does the bleeding stop? Not last night, in what developed into a fifth consecutive loss for The Dynasty this time 6-3 to the Minnesota Wild, a team that lives with defence. Not when a Canadiens team gives two-goal leads to a defensive team four times. Not for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that the Canadiens relinquished 45 shots to the Wild. Hoo.boy! Six of the nine goals came in business JACK TODD OPINION ON OTIS GRANT "More than four years after his last fight, Grant has moved on with his The voice still has the soft lilt of the islands.

The easy laugh still conceals the sort of toughness you and I can only imagine. And Otis Grant still talks about going back to the ring. i But more than four years after his last fight (a TKO loss to some palooka named Roy Jones Grant has moved on with his life. Yesterday, we had a fortuitous conjunction of which is a pompous way of saying that we wanted to talk to each other for different reasons.lv Grant wanted to see if I would mention the fight card he and his brother are promoting tonight at the Leonard Grondin Arena in 1 Granby. I wanted to ask Grant how that Jones fellow might fare tomorrow night when he steps up to take on heavyweight John Ruiz in one of the more intriguing matchups in a long time.

First, tonight's fight card: boxing-starved fans who can't wait for the next time Leonard Dorin or Eric Lucas fight at the Bell Centre will get five amateur and five pro fights in Granby. The headliner is Joachin Alcine, an up-and-coming 154-pounder who is 14-0 under the tutelage of Howard Grant. Alicine's opponent is the veteran Wayne Harris, a last-minute substitute who has acquitted himself well against such opponents as Stephane Ouellet and Alex Hilton. Harris is the third in a line of opponents who were supposed to face Alcine. "We're still learning," Grant cheerfully admits.

"It's a tough business, mostly because people are always backing out because they got more money somewhere else or trying to hold you up at the last minute, wanting more money, saying this and that Please see TODD, Page C3 ON THE TUBE Noon Canada Winter Games, TSN.RDS. 2p.m. -Golf: Match Play Championship, TSN, RDS. 7 p.m. NHL hockey: Dallas Stars at Buffalo Sabres, TSN; Baseball: Spring training, Boston Red Sox vs.

Boston College, WSBK. 8 p.m. -NBA basketball: Toronto Raptors at Boston Celtics, RSE. 5 "'TifV JOHN MAHONEY THE GAZETTE Habs. of every point, find something to come all the way back? In a perfect world, that's precisely what would happen although the Zholtok goal in the second minute of the third period appeared to leave the Canadiens with one foot in a shallow grave.

He made it look easy going high while Garon was low. Another Zee, as in Zednik, got it done (well, almost) with his power-play goal only his team's second in their last 36 tries -when he jumped on a Brisebois rebound and flipped the puck over Fernandez. And then well, you know the rest. Gaborik gets an open side Rivet gets his second Ronning another two-goal lead for a Lemaire team and that's all, folks. Gazette stars: 1.

Cliff Ronning; 1 Craig Rivet; 3. Willie Mitchell. Summary, Page C4 of homes games. Armas's home in Puerto Piritu is more than three hours from Caracas. "It was tough," Armas said.

'All the big stuff was in the capital, but you had to wait five hours in line just to get gas. Things started to get better as I was coming here, but my family's over there, so it's a little bit of a concern right now." Armas didn't really consider leaving the country, which was shut down by a general strike. "I wasn't really concerned about myself," he said. "I didn't want to leave my family I wanted to spend time with them, and whatever happened, I would rather have been there than in Florida or whatever." Please see EXPOS, Page C3 the Wild, the fifth straight for the problem for the Minnesota veteran. He swept in alone on Garon for what normally is a comfort zone for the Wild.

Translation: allow a Jacques Lemaire team a two-goal cushion and it's the dentist's chair for a team playing catchup. Unless, that is, the door is flung open wide, courtesy of consecutive Minnesota penalties that provided the Canadiens with a two-man advantage for what was to have been 1:42 until Richard Zednik was caught with a high stick six seconds later Call that another mistake. Still, the Rivet goal, only 14 seconds after Patrice Brisebois and the Wild's Filip Kuba joined their colleagues in the penalty box, lessened the pain considerably Is that when the air goes out of the Minnesota balloon? More importantly, is that when the Canadiens, desperately in need "it was a tough situation over there because they pretty much stopped the country," said Chavez, whose home in Valencia is a two-hour drive from the capital, Caracas, where danger lurked on every corner. Chavez played 22 games for Magallanes. "We just went home, waiting for everything that's going to happen in the country, because they stopped all the companies, all the jobs, everything," he said.

Armas, who hasn't played much winter ball in the last few years, had made the commitment this winter and joined Ori-ente Carires only two weeks before the end. He appeared in four Two Expos think me up as they watch the closing the third period, but unhappily for the Canadiens, four were by the uh-huh, defensive Wild, who never trailed in the game. Cliff Ronning led the unexpected attack with two goals, the last into an empty net. Richard Park, Wes Walz, Sergei Zholtok and Marian Gaborik delivered the others. Craig Rivet was a bright light with two goals, each time bringing the Canadiens to within one goal.

Richard Zednik scored the other also bringing his colleagues to within one. What you've been seeing in recent weeks is what the home folks got last night, including the visiting team scoring the first period's only goal, a Canadiens team struggling offensively, a WEST 6UND620-715S 1 800 W8 HOURS: MOfL-VU Venezuelans Armas, Chavez were fortunate not to get caught up in country's strife JOHN MAHONEY THE GAZETTE Endy Chavez says he waited at home for the situation to improve. STEPHANIE MYLES THE GAZETTE viera, fla. Luckily for Venezuelans Tony Armas Jr. and Endy Chavez, their off-season homes weren't in the line of fire this winter.

But with their homeland divided by forces for and against president Hugo Chavez, life was no longer as they knew it And when the Venezuelan winter league cancelled the remainder of its season on Dec. 2, both Chavez and Armas went home, hunkered down and waited until the time came to report to the Expos training camp. 715S tUJ.CL 369-1860 USAUI 1 -800-701-7338 SMNwHERESE (450) IM Many more in-store LIQUIDATION SPECIALS! LACHENAE (450) 471-5400 MONTREAL 278-4527 CHATEAUGUAY 691-4240 1 600 600 MONTREAL 388-9077 LAVAL (430) 5515 SAMT-EUSTACHE (450 623-5149 4334580 REPEMTKSNT (450) 654-5337 637-7S39 ST, irwr rSW EK." 7-i.

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