Edmonton Journal from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • 37

The Journal Emms Isn't So Happy Of "For the time I was there, I noticed the Oil Kings do not employ this play. The goaltender stays in his net and his forwards and defencemen play the puck off the boards," mused Emms. "With the long distance to travel, it is impossible SPORTS EDMONTON, ALBERTA, Wednesday, May 1, 1963 37 By bWAYNE FRICKSON Journal Sf.ort Writti Call him Mr. Emms. Obviously the man isn't happy.

The night Niagara Falls Flyers kissed New Espanola Eagles goodbye in the eastern junior hockey final, coach Happy Emms became a knoc ker. First off he took a run at the west's replacement rule. Then he had a run-in with Oil King coach Buster Brayshaw over a closed-door workout Tuesday night. And just before the greying owner-manager-coach bedded down for the evening, he knocked the layout of the Gardens hockey rink. Emms, who leads his Flyers into battle against the Oil Kings in the opener of the Memorial Cup junior hockey spectacle Thursday night, feels the nets placed too far out from the back boards.

"There are 15 feet between the nets and the boards," charged Emms. "I'll have to check the rule book first but I believe that is against rink regulations. "It is my understanding the goal-line, extending completely across the rink, parallel to the end boards, is supposed to be no farther than 10 feet out. "That would leave only seven feet of width between the back of the net and the end boards. "I'll be checking on this dimension Wednesday morning," said Emms.

"If I'm correct in my assumption, I'll demand that the nets be set back to the proper distance. "And if my demands are ignored, I'll play every game under protest until the thing is corrected," he threatened. The veteran junior coach said he would not take anybody's word on the dimension. "I left all my rule books at home in the office. But I'll get one and read it before stirring up an argument," he said.

The coach's main knock against the large ice area behind the goal is that his goaltender cannot play his normal game with it. "When a pjck is shot behind our net, our pattern calls for the goaltender to come out of his crease and behind the goal to stop the puck, leaving it for a defenceman to come around and pick up. for the goaltender to play the puck safely," Emms continued. "The goalie, leaving his net, going behind to stop the puck, and returning to his position, travels 30 feet. "It is impossible for him to make the play in time if the shot comes from a forward steaming in from 50 feet out.

I know. We tried it and our goaltender, George Gardner, agrees. It can't be done," said Emms. Oil King manager Leo LeClerc was quick to defend his home ice sheet. "Well, what do you know," started LeClerc, "the guy is telling us every game played in the JIM CHASE care he i ey building since 1912 has been illegal.

That means rewriting a lot of record books," he cracked. Emms will ask Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president Art Potter for a rule book and ruling, if necessary, today. Jim Chase Wins Nod From Bus Brayshaw Emms Battle Begins Early If coaches Buster Brayshaw and Happy Emms should bump into each other on a crowded avenue this week DUCK! The two Memorial Cup coaches have never met but already there is no love lost between them. Though the best-of-seven junior hockey classic's opening number is still a day and a half away, the two Memorial Finalists Sportsman's Guests More than 40 more guests have agreed to appear at the Edmonton Sportsman's Dinner. The top heavy number consists of two hockey teams-Niagara Falls Flyers and Edmonton Oil Kings.

The teams, competing in the best-of-seven Memorial Cup final at the Gardens, will be the guests of honor of the sponsoring Edmonton Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. The May 8 event at the new Sportex Building is sandwiched in between the fourth and fifth games of the series. A four-game series, of course, would force the Flyers to cancel out. Head table guests already announced for the eighth renewal include football celebrities George Ratterman, Y. A.

Tittle, Harvey Wylie, and Bobby Dobbs, along with hockey personalities Bobby Kromm, Bernie Geoffrion, and outdoors expert Ted Peck, among others. Jim Chase and the kid's first start in a Memorial Cup final may be a bit closer than most people like to think. Chase, who at 18 has to rata as one of the ciub's top 18-year-old up-and-coming left-wingers, has all but sewn up a uniform for the opener. The series gets under way Thursday at the Gardens, sending Niagara Falls Flyers against the Oil Kings. Chase, who joined the club in the final series of the Central Alberta Hockey League, is now winning notices from coach Buster Brayshaw.

"Oh, how I wish we had him with us all season," moaned Brayshaw. "He would be one of our great ones with his ability and condition." lilllpl strangers wno can ine snots are trading unkind words King practice sessions. As the third-year coacher explained: "I didn't want the boys worrying or fretting over friends, relatives, or girl friends, I sought their undivided attention. "As this was a closed-door practice I felt I had every right to evict the Flyers when they BUS BRAYSHAW standi ground a With the help of a "runner," Emms, who had been in town less than an hour, and Brayshaw were mixing it up well Tuesday night. The argument started when Brayshaw asked for privacy at the Gardens during an Oil King workout.

Oilers were supposed to be practising behind closed doors but Niagara Falls Flyers found an unlocked entry into the ancient icehouse upon their arrival at the exhibition grounds. Two days ago, Brayshaw rr-dered all doors closed to Oil showed, commented Brayshaw. Apparently, a door on the south end of the airy early-1900 structure was left ajar and it was through this portal that the eastern champions passed. After stowing their equipment in the visitors' dressing room, they lingered in the stands to watch the Kings at work. CAMPERS' VILLAGE ALBERTA'S LARGEST TENT DISPLAY A complete line of Camping Accessories AT DISCOUNT PRICES AIR MATTRESSES Halts Oiler Workout Retail 75 28 (Inflated).

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Just think of all the damaging information that Niagara Falls could have learned about the Kings on the "eve-minus one" of their Memorial Cup junior hockey finals. Emms would have learned, for instance, that the Kings plan to use a goalkeeper and an enemy hockey coach can't usually buy that sort of top secret information. Being the astute sort, Emms may have even deduced it will be either Russ Kirk or Tom Bend. It is also entirely possible that had the Flyers been allowed to remain at the practice they might have learned that the Kings probably will use five defence-men and three forward lines. 'All Niagara Falls would have had to do then was to hustle back to the Macdonald and spend the next 48 hours mapping ovi strategy, for not often does an opposition club fall this sort of vital and startling information abv-i a foe.

I'm sure it would have changed Mr. Emms' entire concept of how to deal with the Kings, had he been able to learn that: Almost every one of the Oilers wears two skates, not to mention red white and blue uniforms; That Butch Paul and Max Mestinsek usually effect White head gears; That Brayshaw is drilling into the Edmonton club a plan to score all, or at least almost all, of its goals by putting the nuck in the Flyer net, with Northland sticks when possible. 1 can't think what else of value a coach can learn of another club by watching a workout. Some coaches I know don't learn this much about their own clubs after nractising them all season. May the Memorial Cup games be better than the pre-series "One-Upmanship," which to this point has been something less than inspiring.

Some News For Easy Ed Lucky for me, I was at the Lloydminster dinner for the Ray Nelson-sponsored and Kaye Strate-coached young loggers of that border city so was excused from watching the two camps unfold their "Hate 'Em" campaigns. I have a sensitive stomach. So were Bruce MacGregor and Eddie Joyal, the young Detroit Red Wings who showed so well in the Stanley Cup finals although they lost to Toronto Maple Leafs. When red-haired MacGregor walked in, one of the young pucksters being honored asked his dad: "Is that Johnny Bower?" and a wag in the vicinity replied: "Could be. He skates like Bower." But actually, Joyal and MacGregor were the hit of the piece, in that they talked with the boys, and not at them from the podium.

The two Wings, instead of making addresses, called the youngsters into a corner and had a real bull session boy to boy sort of thing. A new artificial ice rink for Lloydminster will be a reality in a year if the town's young but hustling Hockey Association has its way. They already have 350 boys in the minor program. If the trip wasn't already worthwhile just to be subjected for an evening to so much enthusiasm, a return- i'ourney joust between Joyal and his former manager, jeo LeClerc of the Oil Kings, made it so. They carried cn a 165-mile running argument as to whether Joyal should get complimentary tickets to the Memorial Cup, or buy them.

Joyal lost. Which is passing strange, for I have to Inform Easy Ed, the Mayor of St. Albert, that his Detroit teammate Val Fonteyne, who never even played for the Kings, has much more influence with LeClerc. Leo yesterday Invited the entire Wetaskiwin Colonels hockey team, Val's old club, and Wetaskiwin Mayor Jack Pike (got it right this time, Jack) to be the Oil Kings' guests at the opening game in the Gardens Thursday night. 80 it 33 (Inflated).

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"I don't care if we ever see Brayshaw or his club. The only reason I stayed around was to give our newspaper writer a line on the Oil Kings. "I feel his was a childish attitude," remarked Emms. 1 The two clubs were booked for one-hour practices back-to-back this morning. Flyers took the ice from 10 to 11, Oil Kings from 11 to noon.

Emms said he would not allow any fraternization between the hockey players. "Only when we are all back in our dressing room will the Oil Kings be allowed to step out and onto the ice." MASTER SCOUT TENT 'KNT. PUP TENT Professional Model. CO QH Retail $14.95 f-i33 6'xT. $19.50 RAINPROOF CANVAS DUCK Hand roped eaves adds years of service.

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that they leave the premises. Emms replied by sending his players back to the dressing room, then on to the bus to return to their nightly quarters. Emms, his two trainers, and another club official stayed behind, however, to watch the Kings. Brayshaw held his ground. He simply leaned against a net and refused to send the club back into action.

Again he sent a rink attendant over to tell Emms to leave the building. Emms agreed, but as he departed, sent the attendant back to Brayshaw with an invitation to look in on the Niagara Falls practice some 90 minutes later. "Tell him he, his trainers, and all his players, are welcome," said the Flyer owner-manager-coach. "We didn't bring 'em out here for a friendly visit," muttered Brayshaw after the practice. "If they want to visit let 'em do it sometime next July.

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