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at least a fourth-place finish for the
season.

The Giants gave fans little to hold
on to as they closed their six-game sea-
versus the Seattle
Thunderbirds with a winless record.
Highlights included Mitch Bartley’s
28th goal of the season, Marek
Shwarz’s 36 saves, and J.D. Watt’s pair
of scraps with Thunderbird Bretton
Stamler, though all were shadowed by

son series

afiother lacklustre performance.

Yet the return of Mark Fistric con-
increase the
confidence, as his minutes rise and his

tinues to team’s
fearless on-ice play and leadership
bring a needed spirit to the Giants’
energy.

And that energy will be very impor-
tant when the Giants visit the Prince
George Cougars for two games on the
weekend of March 11-12 before
returning to host the Cougars on the
15th. The Giants will then close out
the season with a home-at-home series
against the Rockets, a game in
Kelowna on March 18, and a final reg-
ular-season game at home on March

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The Best of Sport

Darren Paterson, Sports Editor

lights and was suddenly inspired to
write a “Best of Sport” article. This
won't take long, but I want to take a

| was just watching some NBA high-

moment to recognize something that I
think represents the best that sports have
to offer: sportsmanship.

What I’m talking about is how NBA
players often chat, converse, cajole, and
carouse...well, maybe it doesn’t reach the
point of carousal, but still, I really appre-
ciate seeing the players smiling and
laughing with their opponents before the

 

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games. Because, after all, it 7s just a game,
and when the game’s over, when the play-
ers retire, the people that can help them
continue to be successful in life will be the
people who used to be their opponents.

Some of the best memories of my life
come from being coach and captain of a
ball hockey team in grade 12. It was just an
intramural league in an arts school full of
skinny, dinky, wiener kids, but man, was it
fun to play those games. And while the
competition was intense, and while I took
those games very seriously, I was always
able to joke and laugh with my competi-
tion. I was often pitted against my best
friends in that league and even though
winning was always one of my top priori-
ties, those friendships were the most
important thing in my life. The number of
times that my friends have helped me out
since high school are too numerous to
count, the number of times that my “Most
Assists” award has helped me since high
school are nonexistent.

And when I see NBA players, or play-
ers in any sport, laughing and chatting
before a game I feel a strange feeling of
warmth because it becomes clear that
those players understand that there is
more to life than the sport they play. And

 

I am glad that there exists a forum where
such camaraderie can be built and where
people can learn the importance of friend-
ship and trust. And these are the things
that represent, to me, the best of what
sports have to offer.

 

 

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