San Francisco State University
Extended Education
Wildlands Research Institute
Join a Backpacking Research Team in the
Mountain West or Alaska
Summer, 1983 3-9 units
On-site explorations to preserve:
• Wildlife Species • Wilderness Environments
Course details:
WILDLANDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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Time: Feb. 27, 1983 - Sunday
Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m.
Show starts at 8:00 p.m.
Place: EMU Ballroom, U of O
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Portland: hot on the ice
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OMh* Emerald
A milestone for ice hockey in
the United States is on tap for
May 7-15.
But it won't take place in the
Northeast where the glut of Na
tional Hockey League teams
battle for the Stanley Cup It will
be in Portland where four of the
best junior hockey teams in
North America will battle for the
coveted Memorial Cup.
Now the Memorial Cup
tournament will be played out
side of Canada for the first time
in its long and illustrious history.
And it is only appropriate that
Portland is the site for the event.
After all, Portland was the site
of the first professional hockey
game ever played in the United
States. That game took place in
1912, and in 1914 the Portland
Rosebuds, forerunners of
today's Chicago Black Hawks,
nearly brought the Stanley Cup
to the Northwest in a showdown
with the Montreal Canadians.
In the fall of 1975 Portland
became the site of another ice
breaking event when Brian
Shaw brought major junior
hockey to Portland. The Ed
monton Oil Kings moved to
Portland and the Portland
Winter Hawks were born
Since that day, the Winter
Hawks have been known for
firsts.
The Hawks have finished in
the top two spots of the Western
Division of the Western Hockey
League every year except one,
when they finished third They
have never failed to make the
WHL playoffs, and last spring
they brought the first junior
hockey league title to the United
States by claiming their first
WHL crown
Junior hockey is the training
ground for the NHL The age
bracket for junior hockey is 15
to 20-year olds. Players are
drafted out of the Canadian
Major Junior Hockey League
(the WHL is one of three leagues
in the CMJHL) the same way the
National Football League and
National Basketball Association
draft talent from NCAA teams
Portland is also the No 1 team
in this area Only four players in
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Ken Yaremchuk is maneuvering the Portland Winter Hawks toward
another division title in the Western Hockey League.
the club’s seven-year history
have graduated from the club
without being drafted. Last year,
two of the top five players draft
ed were Portland Winter Hawks.
Defenseman Gary Nylund
signed a healthy contract with
the Toronto Maple Leafs after
being taken second in the draft.
Ken Yaremchuk, a nifty center
who is a key member of this
year's Hawk squad was picked
fifth overall by the Philadelphia
Flyers.
"I think the four weeks or so I
had up in the NHL helped me a
lot," Yaremchuk says of his ex
perience in the Flyers training
camp last fall. "But, as you can
see, I'm not up there right now
so I still need to learn a lot more
about defensive play and all
that And, hopefully next year I'll
give it another shot.”
Portland is glad to have "The
Weasle,” as he is affectionately
called, shooting for the Hawks
this winter. Yaremchuk is the
team’s leading scorer and a key
reason why the high-scoring
Hawks are comfortably atop the
WHL Western Division
A good example of Yarem
chuk’s value to the Hawks came
just 20 seconds after rival Kam
loops tied last Wednesday's
WHL showdown at 4-4 early in
the third period. He took the
puck at the blue line and skated
in on Kamloops goalie Martin
Wood After faking a shot, he
slid the puck across the goal
mouth where teammate Cam
Neely waited to slam it into the
net The goal put the Hawks
ahead to stay en-route to an 8-5
win
Seconds later Yaremchuk
was snuffed after creating a
great opportunity, but the ensu
ing scramble resulted in another
Portland goal. Yaremchuk,
whose older brother Gary is a
Toronto Maple Leaf, put the ic
ing on a three point game with a
steal and solo goal with 2:23 to
play
That sent the 7,131 fans at
Memorial Coliseum into their
eighth frenzy of the evening
“The fans here are just un
real," says Yaremchuk, noting
that the MC is sold out several
times a season with more than
10,000 fans cheering on the
young players Not surprisingly,
with an average of about 7,000
fans a game the Hr wks also top
all of junior hockey in atten
dance. In fact, no one else is
even close, an ironic fact with a
sport whose hot bed is Canada.
“We go to play in Nanimo or
Kelwona where they have 800 to
1.500 people," notes Yarem
chuk. “That’s a difference of
6.500 people It's great to play
front of a lot of people. It gets
your momentum going in the
dressing room and it gets you
pumped up."
Rookie center Alfie Turcotte
came to the Hawks from Nanimo
in a four-for-one deal over the
Christmas break He is second
on the team in scoring, and a
good example of the kind of
See HAWKS, Page 7B