The Winnipeg Sun from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • 48

48 sports Winnipeg Sun Monday February 9 1998 Duguid the Dean of Darkness VIRDEN He has rightly or wrongly earned a reputation as Attila the Curler Seemingly as cold as Jimmy Hoffak corpse and as unforgiving as a loan shark he moves about the pebble with a swagger and a grim-faced resolve First end 10th end matter he usually carries the worried look of a man who I just gave up a steal of three I Smile? About as often as President Casanova every time someone mentions Monica Lewinsky and Forni-gate Even in victory last evening at the Virden Rec Centre the on-ice celebration was extremely restrained There was no shrieking or lads-a-leaping Does this make you nervous Manitoba? It Dale Duguid and his pals from the Granite James Kirkness Jim Spencer and i Doug Armstrong will be wearing the buffalo on their 1 backs next month when the Brier comes to River City for one very good reason: They're this darkness and heavy smoke night stay for a few pops but during the day especially he likes his darkness are like that" No skips were like Duguid in the four days of this Select day or night Not Burtnyk Not Jeff Stoughton Not Dave Smith or Vic Peters He was by a wide margin superior and repeatedly bailed out his team Need a draw to the lid? No problem A circus shot to cut your losses or steal a point Consider it done Which is why his guys stick 1 with him abrupt as he might be at times and I have been through a says Armstrong gets their turn and I just wanted to be with him when he gets his got it 28 years after his dad Don had his You can e-mail Pat Doyle at pdoyle9escapeea Sometimes I guess some people take it the wrong way not a diplomat I understand him though good friends not that tough to play with He just demands a lot from his players that's all He expects everybody to work at it" Armstrong of course knows a different Duguid than the one we see on the pebble actually a pretty quiet he says you ever went out with him anywhere an observer He just sits back and if he goes out Darkman Duguid it seems is something of a nocturnal creature nickname for him is the Dean of reveals Armstrong travel a lot and when on the road he prefers after a game to go back to the hotel order room service close the blinds and watch TV in the dark And he smokes You open up the door and there's i-J the right men for the job It was no accident that they won the provincial championship derailing Kerry Burtnyk's classy team 9-3 in the final and Duguid need not apologize just because he wear a happy face when hels on a sheet of ice Last time we checked this a contest to see who had i the toothiest grin reputation) is a little bit suggests Doug Armstrong Duguidk friend of 12 years and his lead for the past four seasons says what he thinks Moose 111-3 Thunder 0 2 0-2 MCMD: (H-ta-S) HCMB: (lt-tt-i) Maybe Randy Carlyle's message is starting to get through For the fourth straight game the Manitoba Moose practised what their head coach has been preaching putting defence first to edge the Thunder 3-2 in Las Vegas yesterday Brad Purdie scored his 23rd goal of the season in the third period and goalie Rich Parent won his second straight start as the Moose closed out their longest road trip of the season on a winning note The Moose finished the eight-games-in-1 2-days journey with a 4-3-1 record their first winning excursion since October Jimmy Roy and Joe Frederick scored the other goals for Manitoba which limited the Thunder to 25 shots on goal Since an 8-2 loss in Indianapolis eight days ago the Moose have allowed their opponents no more than three goals per game They're 2-1-1 since the blowout For openers Manitoba opened the scoring with just 23 seconds left in the first period when Frederick deflected a Brian Chapman point shot past Thunder goalie Tim Chevaldae for his 22nd goal of the season Midway through the second checker Roy made it 2-0 Moose converting a Greg Pankewkz pass for his fifth of die year But Las Vegas goals by former Brandon Wheat Kings defenceman Justin Kurtz and Steve Bancroft in a 2:48 span wiped out the Moose advantage before the period was up Deuces wild The Moose entered the game stuck on twos having scored that number of goals in each of their last six games Manitoba hasn't scored more than three times in a game since Jan 14 a stretch of 13 outings Michel Mongeau's two assists doubled his output over the previous dozen games while Frederick who had two pointy entered the game with one goal and a pair of assists in his last 14 Three stars 1 Parent has put together back-to-back gems 2 Frederick set up Purdie's game-winner 3 Kurtz was robbed by Parent twice in the third -Staff 'No shame' for losing to Duguid Burtnyk enjoying 'best year has probably been our best year Burtnyk said a lot of times things get measure by how you do in playdowns We still did well it just didn't work out worst we finished on the cashspiel circuit was reach the semifinals When you can do that against todayk competition that really says something about my team and I'm really proud of the guys (third Jeff Ryan second Rob Meakin and lead Keith FentonX great to finally see Dale win It was only a matter of time before it happened You give him enough chances hek going to win one of those sooner or Top names beaten The Brierk marquee billboard took a beating yesterday Two-time world champion Pat Ryan won't be coming home to Winnipeg to be in the Brier March 7-15 Ryan lost the BC final in Esquimalt to New Westminster's Greg McAuley a cashspiel circuit veteran who went 7-0 in the round robin Rod Montgomery beat former Brier bad-boy Brad Heidt of Saskatoon in the Saskatchewan final at Melville Five jurisdictions will decide their rep next weekend including Ontario which has former world title holder Russ Howard and cashspiel king Wayne Middaugh in its field CURLING GRANT GRANGER Staff Reporter VIRDEN Kerry Burtnyk's bid to join a couple of curlers from the natural ice age in the history books took a detour last night Burtnyk gave up a steal of three in the first end of the A-B final to Dale Duguid That led to a 9-3 defeat and it ended arty hope Burtnyk had of becoming a fourtime Manitoba menk curling champion That matched Howard (Pappy) Wood (1925 '4a and Ken Watson (193a '42 '43 '49X I don't remember having too many of those at this kind of a critical said Burtnyk of his big miss on a draw to the eight-foot play on ice as good as this there's just no Burtnyk won his first three Manitoba finals (1981 88 and But he lost the TO finale to Vic Peters too hard to take but at the same time Vick team team are two of the best teams in the country in the world never mind the province" said Burtnyk no Burtnyk foiled to make the playoffs at the Olympic Trials at Brandon in November and came up short here from those results this IffljEflflb I Burtnyk (above) lost 9-3 to Duguid in the provincial final last night.