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The News Tribune Friday December 9 1983 Batter Golf with JACK NICKIAUS US Olympic goalie's learning about perfection from Soviets have about periods of experience against the Soviets I don't really see them as anything different The only thing they do special is make plays very well They don't shoot a lot They make the perfect play Marc Behrend Swedish brother combination slowly carving mark on NHL AP Sports Analysis By Barry Wilner AP Sports Writer LAKE PLACID NY (AP) In a little over 100 minutes of play acainst skaters from the Soviet Union Team USA goaltender Mare Behrend has learned about perfection "I have about 5V4 periods of experience against the Soviets" said Behrend who will start in goal for the United States Friday night in the opener of a six-game series against the Soviet Selects "I don't really see them as anything different The only thing they do special Is make plays very well They don't shoot a lot They make the perfect play "The most success I will have is to stay back in the net a little instead of coming out and cutting down the angle With them it's the trailer or guy on the wing who will wind up with the shot If you're not alert he'll be shooting at an open net" Behrend helped the University of Wisconsin win two NCAA titles before Joining Team USA which will attempt to win the Olympic gold medal for the second straight time int February at Sarajevo Yugoslavia He and Bob Mason of Minnesota-Diuuth have shared the goaltending duties for Team USA since it began an exhibition tour in September "Our goaltending has been outstanding" said Lou Vain coach of the American squad Marc and Bob have improved and kept us in a lot of games Like his teammates Behrend is anxious to get into action against the Selects "This is a really good time to play them" he said "We should be coming around by this time we should be about ready for a test like this "I think it will be a good test for us If we do well in this senes thoughit doesn't mean we can slack off or that we have our goal accomplished or we are ready for Sarajevo we don't do well it shows us we Just have to keep at it" After Friday's game at the site of the Americans 1980 upset of the Soviets in the Olympics the series will continue in Bloomington Minn on Sunday then in Cleveland on Monday Cincinnati next Thursday St Louis on Dec 16 ana Indianapolis on Dec IS The Selects will be comprised mainly of members of the Soviets' national team which Vain calls of the six best teams in the world" But there will be several players on this tour who also will be in Sarajevo of them will be i their national team so it's not like a regular club team from over there that we're playing" said Behrend whose previous experience against the Soviets came in games against the Soviet Wings in Alaska last September "I think we can gauge ourselves on how much work we still have to do after playing them We can measure ourselves We know we're not playing their best team but not a bad team cither By Barry Wilnor AP Sports Writer Patrik Sundstrom emerged from the visitors' dressing room at Madison Square Garden Peter his twin brother walked out of the New York Rangers' room As they approached each other they smiled and exchanged greetings in Swedish One imagined the translation to be meeting you The Sundstroms haven't taken the National Hockey League by storm but give them time Patrik a center with the Vancouver Canucks and Peter a right wing for the Rangers are only 21 Peter is a rookie and Patrik is in his second NHL mason talk on the telephone when we can but we have only seen each other once before this season" mid Patrik "When we were here to play the Islanders we met "1 don't give much thought to playing against him It's really Just another game" But it wu not Patrik and Peter's parents were in New York for the first "real" meeting between the twins on the ice "We never played against each other except one time when I wu on the Swedish National A team and Peter was on the team" mid Patrik'' "That wu Just an exhibition anyway" mid Peter "It doesn't count" Peter wu watching his brother's performance But that wasn't unusuaL he mid "When I'm on the bench I watch most of the Swedes when we play them" Peter mid "Al home 1 would keep track of them in the newspapers and they were heroes There is a lot of coverage in the it hom Patrik wu here last year we would talk once a week on the telephone 1 think he liked Van- couver last year but I aim think he'd like the hockey we play more than what they play in Vancouver We olav more Eurooean" Patnk hu teamed with left wing Tony Tanti to form a dangerous 1-2 punch for Vancouver Peter hu worked with Pierre Larouche and Don Maloney to form the Rangers' most effective attacking unit "I'd love to get Patrik here" mid Rangers Coach Herb Brooks "The only thing standing in the way is (Canucks General Manager) Harry Neale He wants Peter out there" The meeting after their teams tied recently brought the first acknowledgement of each other by the brothers that night "We didn't talk on the ice no" mid Peter "We didn't nod at each other We Just stayed" Peter scored in the first period but Patrik mid he had no mixed feelings about that goal "It is never good when the other team scons against you even if it is your brother scoring" he noted Since Patnk came to the NHL one year earlier than Peter he wu in a position to offer his brother some bints on life and hockey in North America What did he ten Peter? "Not much" mid Patrik "I can't help him that much He must find things out for himself especially in New York 1 am in Vancouver on the other side of the country" Peter wu asked how he'd evaluate his brother's play Only then did he betray a strong brotherly allegiance "If I wu scouting Patrik 1 would say he is a very good player" he mid "I'd my 'Sign NHL board of governors upholds suspension placed against Lysiak Turn the Pot Patrol to your advantage Call The News Tribune at 461-2050 governors amended Rule 67A to allow a player the right of appeal a suspension to the league Originally the rule provided no appeal It read: player who deliberately strikes an official or deliberately applies physical force in any manner against an official shall be suspended 20 The 20-game suspension is the stiffest penalty in NHL history for an in-game infraction Before the decision wu announced league officials Lysiak and representatives of the NHL Players Association viewed a videotape of the incident Foyt left the meeting without speaking to reporters did Jun Beatty attorney for the referees union "Twenty games is a serious penalty but at least we won a minor victory by getting the appeal process written into the bylaws' mid Wendy white legal counsel for the players union A union source had told The Associated Press that a number of refereu and linesmen met informally last week and discussed options that might be available to them in the event Lynak's suspension wu reduced A walkout was one of the options mentioned mid the source adding there wu definite support for a strike PALM BEACH Fla (AP) The suspension of Chirago Black Hawks star Tom Lysiak was upheld Thursday by the National Hockey League board of governors averting a possible walkout by referees who were mid to be considering a strike if the penalty was reduced The decision the first order of business at the annual NHL winter meetings wu announced in a brief statement which mid: "It is the board's decision that the suspension of Lysiak for 20 games is confirmed" "I guess I'll be playing a lot of golf" Lysiak mid as he wu whisked out of the meeting room with bis attorney Bill Martin NHL game officials had threatened to take some kind of action if the board of governors softened the penalty imposed on Lysiak by NHL President John Ziegler Lysiak received the suspension Oct 30 for hooking linesman Ron Foyt with (us stick and left knee causing the official to fall to the ice Foyt wu not hurt and referee Dave Newell automatically suspended lysiak Supported by the Black Hawks and the NHL Players Association Lysiak obtained a temporary injunction from Cook County (ID) Circuit Judge George A Higgins on Nov 3 which allowed him to continue playing Responding to the injunction the NHL board of TigerVision folds denying LSU fans chance to see reruns of their team Now through Christmas celebrate Honda Holidays with vs Checkout thespedal holiday prices we're offering on selected BATON ROUGE La (AP) TigerVision the cable service that featured reruns of Louisiana State University sports hu proven unprofitable and hu been cancelled Athletic Director Bob Brodhead announced rod head mid the cancellation hu no effect on live pay-per-view telecasts of football and basketball gamu and that some other outlet will be found next month for the reruns and features that made up the bulk of TigerVision programming Cablcviswn or Total CATV announced Tuesday that it wu immediately canceling TigerVision with the mutual consent of the university because nobody was making any money on the venture TigerVision began broadcasting 14 months ago including some live coverage of non-revenue sports along with shows reruns of basketball and football and features on sports-related groups and events at LSU I It got little more than half Hie subscribers it needed to break even Dick Kirby vice president for programming at Cablevision mid SelectEvent live broadcasts of basketball and football win continue on a pay-per-view basis The decision to cancel TigerVision wu "strictly economic" Kirby mid The network needed at least 250000 subscribers to be economically feasible it averaged 137000 subscribers the Cablevision executive mid Brodhead mid that a new version of TigerVision will appear on cable television shortly after the first of the year The athletic director mid he did not know why Cablevision decided to drop the service "I don't know if they marketed it or what If they mid it wu economic we ought to leave it at that' Brodhead mid Cablevision made efforts to market TigerVision Kirby mid but "the network wu unable to obtam enough subscribers to make the venture economically sound" Both Kirby and Brodhead mid the cancellation had nothing to do with a dispute last month between LSU Cablevision and Central CATV Tom Ficara LSU's media coordinator had chastised Cablevision for not living up to its contract after Cablevision complained that Central CATV had not fulfilled its contract obligations a subscriber Many cable systems in Louisiana cannot provide the channel space required by TigerVision or do not yet have the technology needed to carry SelectEvent along with TigerVision Kirby mid Most cable systems in the state are older and have filled their channel capacity Kirby mid 'They would have to go to a different kind of converter or rebuild their qrstems" he added Tbe implementation of addressable converters the programmable channel selectors that come with the advanced cable service packages "hu not happened as quickly we had hoped" he mid The converters are needed to receive the SelectEvent and TigerVision programming Ficara was out of town but during last month's controversy the LSU media coordinator mid it is obvious that a worts network that operates only two days a weekend and hu not expanded beyond Baton Rouge and New Orleans is not what the school had hi mind when it began the project FREE! Get a 1984 Honda Championship Racing Calendar free Enter our weekly drawings towin valuable I kxidalinc prizes yE AndstockupontheHondaline accessories and apparel we carry 1 iappy Honda Holidays gKMLHPflcgB The International Race of Champions returns in '84 after three-year hiatus By Mike Harris AP Motonportt Writer OPEN HOUSE SALE Saturday Dec 10 Many Store-Wide Specials on Cycles Accessories HONDALINET WIN THISI PRIZISI specially modified Chevrolet Z-28s will he at Michigan International Speedway June 16 The other 1984 events will be on the road course at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland July 7 at Alabama International Speedway July 28 and back at the Michigan oval Aug in 1985 the second Michigan race will be dropped in favor of a season-opener at Daytona International Speedway Richter mid the total purse for the series will be 6465000 with the winner netting 6150000 and second place worth 675000 There were 30 IROC races run between 1973 and 1980 with the average margin of victory throughout the competitive scries only 1365 seconds Previous series winners Included the late Mark Donohue Bobby Unser Al Unmr Mario Andretti Allison and two-time winner A Foyt Richter said the series died in 1980 not beesuse of lack of Interest on the psrt of the public or the racing community but rather duo to the faltering US economy "We never gave up on It" mid the former pro football star "It was Just a matter of time until we got it going again" NEW YORK (AP) The International Race of Champions featuring driving stars from different series competing in Identically prepared cars will be back in 1984 following a three-year hiatus The announcement of the three-year deal was made Jointly Thursday in New York by representativu of tho new IROC Core series sponsors Budweiser Goodyear Master Mechanic Tools and Chevrolet and CBS Sports which will televise each of the IROC races live i NASCAR Grand National champion Bobby Allison and fellow stock car star Darrell Wallrtp were the first of 12 drivers to be named as participants in the four-race serin in 1984 Les Richter president of the new IROC and one of the founders of the serin that originated in 1973 and ran through 1980 mid the other drivers for next year would come from the Grand National series the SCCA Trans-Am the IMSA Camel GT sports car serin and the CART-PPG Indy car aeries Richter mid conflicts with Formula One race dates may mean there will bo no Grand Prix drivers participating in the IROC until 1985 The first race of tho new series which will feature FREE Honda-Kawasaki-Suzuki 721 SO US VERO BEACH S69-5423 Starting Dee 10 thru Chrtatmao we will be open 6:30 a jil-8 pjn lor your ohopplng ptauure.