The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 19

Pages 19-30 Comics Business The Citizen, Ottawa, Friday, Jan. 6, 1984, Page 19t i i.ii,.., mJtwrn yHlw 14 in. iiiiiiiiili.iuii.i.ji. Last-minute goal gives Canada tie with Soviets 1 i If feOI 7 1 fx i a a A AP After five consecutive defeats at the hands of the Soviets, Team Canada won 5-2 Wednesday at Ottawa's Civic Centre and added the tie 24 hours later. "We're looking forward to the final three games of this series and showing them we have a heck of a good team," Lidster said.

Vaughn Karpan, Serge Trepan-ier, Pat Flatley, Darren Lowe and Gord Sherven also scored for Canada. Victor Shalimov, with two, Victor Loginov, Alexander Orlov, Igor Orlov and Andrei Matytsin scored the Soviet goals. The game marked the Team Canada debut of centres Russ Courtnall of Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League and Kirk Muller of Guelph Platers of the Ontario Hockey League, both of whom arrived home Wednes- Canada 6, U.S.S.R 6 KITCHENER, Ont. (CP) Defenceman Doug Lidster scored with one minute and 50 seconds remaining Thursday night, lifting Team Canada to a 6-6 tie against the touring Soviet all-star hockey club. Dave Tippett did most of the work on the tying goal, fighting off a Soviet checker in a corner and centring out front, where Lidster had moved into the slot.

"Tipper's line was working hard in the corner," said Lidster, a Kamloops, B.C., native who played last winter for Colorado College in the United States. "I just moved in. "I was all alone in the slot and he put it right on my stick, so I just let her go." day from participating in the world junior tournament in Sweden. "For young kids, they're really poised with the puck," said head coach Dave King. "They don't throw it away.

"They play with poise beyond their years and that's a valuable commodity," he added. "They both played exceptional games tonight." While it gained two players, Team Canada suffered a heavy blow with the loss of defenceman Joe Grant, who broke a collarbone in the first period and is lost for the Olympics. Grant and Warren Anderson and the only two members of the team remaining from the 1980 Olympic squad. Canada led 2-1 after 20 minutes, but the Soviets forced a 4-4 tie by the end of the second period. Sherven sent Canada into a 5-4 lead 1:08 into the third period, rifling a shot past Soviet goal-tender Victor Doroschenko after taking a pass from Dave Donnelly- Shalimov pulled the Soviets even for the fourth time when he breezed a shot through the legs of Canadian goaltender Darren Eliot at 10:38.

Shalimov then gave the Soviets their first lead, 6-5, when he beat Eliot with a low, screened shot at 14:12. Dave Tippett did most of the work on the final goal, feeding Lidster in the slot for a knee-high drive past Doroschenko. Canada outshot the Soviets 30-24. The 10-game series, which the Kilrea brings Europe's 40-second shift to 67's kJS "JjSr in Tina ft 6ngli." -UPC photo after scoring second goal against Soviets Veteran hurler Niekro joins Berra's Yankees ''iys''Hwwwyi'ti'' "kmgrmff" i Canada's Dan Wood yells Soviets lead 5-1-1, resumes Saturday in Halifax. Courtnall, 18, and Muller, 17, helped Canada to a fourth-place finish at the world junior championship in Sweden and King is hoping the two high-scoring teenagers will supply an infusion of offensive power Team Canada has lacked.

Muller is expected to re of Niekro could free a starter from last year's staff to go to the bullpen, taking the place of free agent Rich Gossage who will not be back. "While Niekro figures to be a starting pitcher on our club, his addition will afford the manager the flexibility of going in several different directions with our group of pitchers," Cook said. Published reports have speculated that left-hander Dave Righetti would leave a primarily left-handed starting rotation position to take Gossage's job of short relief. Church said he and Niekro would go to New York today to complete details of the agreement. "It has been important for Phil to sign with a team knowing that he has a real chance to contribute and that he can make a difference," Church said.

We feel we've accomplished that in signing with New York." Niekro, a right-hander, became a free agent following the 1983 baseball season after he asked for, and received, his unconditional release from Atlanta Braves of the turn to the Platers before joining Team Canada on a full-time basis for the Winter Olympics. Courtnall had the game's first scoring opportunity, but Doroschenko got his stick on a low shot from close range. Team Canada continued to apply the pressure, outshooting the Soviets 7-1 through the first seven Phil Niekro, 44, signed for a National League. He had an 11-10 record with a 3.97 earned-run average with the Braves in 1983. Niekro, who spent 20 years with the Braves in Milwaukee and Atlanta, won 268 games and lost 230 during that period.

In Toronto, the Toronto Blue fifth skier as a spare. With the latter in mind, national skiers like Schmidt, Ottawa's Jennifer Walker, Marie-Andree Masson of Arthabaska, Mo-nique Waterreus of Whitehorse, NWT, and Carol Gibson of Camrose, will be racing hard this weekend at Camp Fortune-Ottawa Ski Club. The second stop on the Sealtest Cup cross-country calendar has a dual purpose Saturday and Sunday. Not only will it serve as the final two races in the Canadian team trials for the world junior championships, but also as selection races to complete a women's relay team, if the COA accepts the idea. National team skiers David iiiiuiuinugpi I No gold medal for Canada's junior hockey team, no medal at all in fact, and no excuses.

They didn't win because they weren't good enough, and if that excellent junior team wasn't good enough, then likely we can't mount a team that is. We were so close though, closer than a fourth-place finish suggests, that some explanation might be in order. Not an excuse, an explanation. Coach Brian Kilrea was back on the job with the 67's Thursday, and making some changes according to what he learned in Europe: "They play 40-second shifts," he said, "maximum effort for 40 seconds. Over here, we play one-minute shifts, or a minute and 10 seconds.

If you do that over there, they take over and completely dominate at the end of the shift. "So, we played 40-second shifts and I had the best juniors in the country, and they were coming off tired. I'll go to 40-second shifts here, today, and if they're not tired when they come off after 40 seconds, it has to be because they're not working hard enough. It's just higher-intensity hockey shorter shifts and maximum effort, all the time." But could that tournament level of intensity be maintained over a long schedule? "I don't know. I don't think so.

But the shorter shifts should help. But in tournament hockey, every game is life and death, all the time. We don't play Iife-and-death hockey all year, except for a few minutes at the end of close games, or in the playoffs. "These were the playoffs to them. This is what they had been pointing to for months and months." So, we didn't win gold, we didn't win anything, we lost two games and tied one.

Can we hope to beat them then? "Yep, we sure can," Kilrea said. "Look, we tied the best junior team in the world, the Russians, and we should have beaten them. I know, 'should have' doesn't mean anything. But we dominated the last part of the game, we had them icing the puck time after time to get away from the pressure, we had great scoring chances. "We outplayed them, and the Russian coach admitted after they were lucky to get out with a tie.

But, it was a tie. "In the room after the game, the kids were really down. They knew they had played well enough to win. Every head was down and every eye was misty mine included. "And not beating the Russians carried over.

I know it shouldn't, and that's easy to say, but when we didn't beat them we lost a chance for the gold, and without the gold everything else is secondary. "So we had been all emotionally involved for the Russian game and when we got only a tie, and the kids didn't go over there for ties, they couldn't get going as well for the next day against the Czechs. We played well against the Czechs but we had been improving every game up until then, and we didn't improve for that one. We didn't play as well against the Czechs as we did against the Russians. We didn't have the same emotion." But the Canadians put themselves into a hole in the first five minutes of the first game against Finland when they went down by three goals.

"They were all set up, waiting it Eddie MacCabe ti'ni iliinrA for us," Kilrea said. "And they don't take any time feeling out the other team. They go right from the whistle. And the Finns are a very good team. They outplayed us and they beat us, and that's all there is to it.

But if we had played them in the second game of the tournament, we'd have beaten them. "Then when we lost, it meant that they had to lose two games for us to beat them. And, if we had beaten them, we would have gone into the game against Russia undefeated, and even with only the tie there, we would still have been undefeated going into the final game against the Czechs. "So those first three minutes that did it. We still thought we could get the gold if we won all of our remaining games, and the big thing was to beat Russia.

"We tied them. Not good enough. But nobody else beat them either. Nobody else even tied them. So we were very close.

It doesn't show and so it doesn't do any good to say it. "But that was it the first few minutes of the opening game against Finland, then getting only a tie against Russia and going against Czechoslovakia the very next day. "Those teams are good, very good. The Russians, the Finns, the Czechs and Sweden could come right into our league (the Junior OHA) and win. We were good, and we got better as it went along.

"And honestly, I liked it. I enjoyed it. I was with the best kids in the country and I enjoyed that. We played well, and that was good. The tournament was well run and they treated us very well.

We have no complaints about the food, the arrangements, none of that. "We had the best goals-against average in the tournament. We allowed only two power-play goals against us in the whole tournament. "So I'm happy about that. The kids played well.

Mark Pa-terson was the unanimous choice as the best defenceman, and he was. He worked harder than any of them, every shift. He was just great. Gary Leeman should have an asterisk beside his name. He played left defence, right defence, and I had him up on the wing, and he was super.

John MacLean what a competitor he is. Randy Heath, Russ Courtnall so many of them. "Now, if we were doing it again, I might change a couple of the players and maybe take a couple who could adjust better to that game. That's not an excuse, but I would change a couple. But you win or lose with your top 17 guys, and I wouldn't change any of them.

So, there you are." So, no beefs about the officiating, no bad food, no transportation snafus no excuses. A good enough team, but it doesn't show in the medals, and a disappointed coach but pleased and proud of the kids. And, from now on, members of the 67's will be expected to go out there and work hard enough to be tired in 40 seconds. Skate, move the puck, high intensity that's the game. Lesson from Europe.

minutes, and Trepanier, from Chicoutimi Inuk of the Quebec Universities Athletic Association, made it 2-0 at 8:54. Linemate Dan Wood, a Toronto native, dug the puck out of a corner of the Soviet zone and threw it out front, where it bounced off Trepanier as a Soviet defender shoved him into the crease. UPI photo base salary of $800,000 Jays signed third baseman Ranee Mulliniks to a three-year contract. Mulliniks, a 27-year-old, left-handed hitter, led all American League pinch hitters with a .652 slugging average and a .519 on-base percentage while finishing second in pinch-hitting average with .435 in 27 games. Lumb of Ottawa, Wayne Dustin of Sault Ste.

Marie and Gibson have been pre-selected for the world junior championships Feb. 2-5 in Trondheim, Norway. The trials will determine the other five members of Canada's eight-skier team. After the first two Sealtest Cup races, Ottawa's Jean McAllister, Winnipeg's Jenny Stewart and Catherine Milley and Margaret Holden, both of Deep River, are the leading contenders for the other three women's spots. Tim-mins' Frank Ferrari and Orange-ville's Al Pilcher are the halfway leaders for the two men's places.

Harvey, who had five top 20 World Cup finishes last year, is the only skier on the men's team. There will be no men's relay team for the second straight Olympics because other skiers failed to meet the criteria. Schmidt was surprised when she was named to the 1980 Olympic team as a first-year senior, but she proved she was worthy of being selected the spare. She was the top Canadian and North American in the 10-km race at 22nd and the third best Canadian in the 5-km. "I learned so much by being in a big race," she said.

"The race (10-km) was a very good experience because of what happened. A Swedish and a Norwegian skier caught up to me, but I was stubborn and didn't let them get past me and I put in a good time." At 24, Schmidt has dedicated the next four years to pointing for the 1988 Olympics no matter the COA decision. Schmidt may miss Olympics NEW YORK (AP) Former Atlanta pitcher Phil Niekro who turns 45 April 1 has agreed to a two-year contract with New York Yankees, his agent and the club announced jointly Thursday. "We are pleased to announce we have reached an agreement with the New York Yankees and consider it an opportunity for Phil to continue his distinguished career with an excellent organization," agent Bruce Church said in Atlanta. Church said the agreement was for two years.

Although he refused to disclose terms, the base salary is believed to be around $800,000 a year with substantial incentives. Yankees manager Yogi Berra said Niekro's knuckleball would "fit in nicely with the makeup of the rest of our staff." "He's a proven winner. He can field his position, and I'm counting on him to be one of our five starters." Yankees general manager Murray Cook indicated the acquisition Top skier By Martin Cleary Citizen staff writer Angela Schmidt is sitting on pins and needles. Will one of Canada's top female cross-country skiers be named to the team for the XIV Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, next month or will she have to watch it on television? Only the Canadian Olympic Association selection committee knows for sure and it won't say until Jan. 14.

Cross Country Canada, the sport's national governing body, will continue to lobby the COA for the placement of Schmidt on the Olympic team, since she is on the fringe of meeting its strict criteria of excellence. Under the COA standards, a skier must have placed in the top 16 in the world last year to be pre-selected to the Olympic team. Shirley Firth of Inuvik, N.W.T, and Pierre Harvey of Stoneham, were successful and have been named for their fourth and first Olympics respectively. For other skiers to be eligible for nomination to the Olympic team, they had to place in the top 20 in one of two World Cup races last month in Europe. Shirley Firth, the New Year's Eve twin sister of Sharon, made the grade with a 14th in a 10-kilometre race in Autrons, France.

Schmidt, who had wax problems in the same race and lost 15 seconds with three stoppages, was 21st and three seconds out of 20th. In a World Cup race in Reit-Im-WinkI, West Germany, the Midland, skier was 30th over 5 km, but trailed the 10th place finisher by 30 seconds. In an international race three days later, Schmidt was 12th in a 5-km run against many of the top Soviet Union skiers. All three races had 75 skiers. Schmidt also won the 5- and 10-km Sealtest Cup races earlier this week in Ste.

Adele, Que. "I'm hanging on the end of a rope, seeing what will happen," Schmidt said, Thursday. "There's a good chance I won't go, but there's a good chance I will go." If the CCC can convince the COA to name Schmidt, ski officials are hopeful the national Olympic body will select a fourth skier to field a relay team and a Calcutt suffers stroke By Dave Brown Citizen columnist CFRA Radio veteran and "Voice of the Ottawa Rough Riders" Ernie Calcutt, 52, suffered a stroke Thursday and his condition is considered serious. He collapsed at home after lunch and was rushed to Riverside Hospital. Calcutt's usual day meant arriving at the station where he was sports director at 5:30 a.m.

He would go home for lunch with wife Pauline and sometimes try to nap before returning to the station later in the afternoon. His work plus association with half a dozen charitable organizations entailed long days. Calcutt began working at CFRA as a hobby in 1961. He was then working for Metropolitan Life Insurance. In 1964, he quit the insurance business to go into full-time radio sports reporting.

His football knowledge is considered encyclopedic and he's immediate past president of the Football Writers and Broadcasters of Canada..