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Great Hockey!!!

The coach of the Douglas College
Hockey Royals makes no bones
about it, the two best hockey
players of this century will

be playing with his team on
October 15.

NiL legends Bobby Hull and Gordie
Howe will be lacing up at Queens
Park Arena to help the Royals
take on the Vancouver Canuck
Oldtimers in a benefit game for
the hockey program at Douglas
College.

"What can I say?" asks coach

Merv Bodnarchuk. "It's not every
day that someone gets to coach the
two best hockey players in the
whole world."

"I'm really excited about this."

And the game will be a real show-
case of top-notch hockey players.

| making any cuts,

shine the most in this exhibition
game will include Bobby Angus on
the wing and at centre, Alan Lucier
and Andy Alexious on defense, the
line of Rob Greeves, Scott Perrich
and Don Johannson, and starting
goalie Paul Flamont.

Over sixty guys tried out for the
Royals this September, but without
coach Bodnarchuk
worked them down to a strong team
of 25 players.

"T worked them pretty hard those
first few days," he admits. "A lot
of guys thought we were playing
intramurals so I didn't have to make
any cuts."

The Royals started out the season
without any money, so this game is
the first of several fund raisers
Bodnarchuk hopes to get involved in.

"The team will make it to the provin-
cial finals later this season,"
predicts a rightfully confident
Bodnarchuk. In his past 14 years
as a junior team coach, all his
teams have played in their leagues'
finals.

"This game with Bobby and Gordie

 

Besides the appearance of both
Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe, the
Oldtimers team should have local
Favourites Orland Kurtenbach, Chris
Oddleifson, Rick Blight and Gary
Bromley on their side.

Meanwhile, coach Merv has been
going all out to recruit the best
young players in B.C. for the
Douglas College Royals. Featuring
players from pretty well every
community in the Lower Mainland,
the Royals will be a tough team to
beat when they take on the other
college teams later this year.

The Royal players who'll probably

,Should be a prelude to a good
lyear," he says. "I'd like to start
the season off good, show steady
;pace throughout, and come out with
la good finish."

| “anybody who knows anything about
‘hockey should come on out to this
|game because I think it'll be the
‘thrill of a lifetime."

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