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Richard O'Brien Chronicle Staff Ws accepted as fact in international hockey that if you let the Soviet players put you to sleep you're in for a nightmare. And as Moscow Dynamo tours with Canada's Olympic hopefuls. we have two locals who can tell us much the Same thing in their own way. Waterloo native Brad Schnurr, a forward with Western Ontario Mustang. saw action with Team Canada early in the tour but was not in the lineup for the game at the Kitchener auditorium last Wednesday. Pressure is on defencemen during the logame Dynamo-Team Canada tour. and Jim Quinn and Rob Whistle, former Kitchener Rangers and now members of the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks, talked last Wednesday afternoon about how difficult it is to stop Dynamo's dymamic forwards. _ Richard O'Brien Chronicle Stall ~ - Giving difference in philosophy and conflict with other coaches as his reasons. track coach Pete Grinbergs has quit the K-W, Track and Field Club and taken his athletes with him to form I new club. the tour but in? not in the lineup for the game at -the w..... "V '3"'"" -- --.--... . u" "“n ‘" W-"m-"uw-w" "-0 'ew.%.%r... _r..F.N9M..l..M . . That night it appeared Dynamo could very well win all " . . ' r ' Kitchener auditorium last Wednesday. to games as their 8-5 victory was very convincing. but on defence, said King. Whistle, who was to get caught early as Dynamo scored Team Canada rebounded the following night in Ottawa “it wasn't lack of effort, but when you‘re new together about. half a minute into last Wednesday's game on the with an 84 win. you don't know the capabilities of your teammates." T / V u“"\/ I . I rack di"iaclh strikes out on his own Grinhergs has formed a all-member club named after the sponsoring Athlete's Foot stores, but K-W Track club president Peter Douglas has said in effect that Grlnbergs always bad the things he hopes to gain in Making from the old club. "The Kitchener-Waterloo groups were always separate to begin with." Grinbergs said. "We trained at dim-rent facilities and there was always a sort of separation very raiiglly. went on." Last September. Grlnbergs gave the KW executive 3 letter stating his Inten- tions and that resulted in some emotion- ally-charged meetings in the tall with Douglas and three other members of a sub-committee who were parents of ath- letes directly affected ttttte move. "What minted us is -ttrat we've never dictated a philosophy to a coach and we've Quinn and Whistle meet the Great Bear y. the approach, armed an" grew larger as time Douglas said the sub-committee during the meetings decided as a concession to Grinbergs to no longer have a coach on the executive and have an executive member present at all coaches meetings "to prevent a more senior coach from domin- ating a coaches meeting." However, there was more to discuss at the subcommittee meetings: "What we wanted as -a bottom line was to be an autonomous mw‘working under a KW Track umbrella." said Gr%ttergs. never told a coach he had to coach in a certain manner." said Douglas. Douglas explained that this autonomy was Impossible because the Cities of Kitchener and Waterloo will not sponsor a club that is not directly controlled wholly by Eta execytlve. " . " "Ney (the cities) don‘t and! tor groups that allow splinter groups to form from them." said Douglas. Orb-berg: My: . philosophy that the individual and personal growth come “If there ere lessons to be learned through sport or athletics," Mid Grin- bergs. "those lessons can be integrated Into life. But they ean't really be integrat- ed Into life If you‘re consumed with that notion of performance and winning." way to an H victory, summed things up by saying there is The series continued with Team Canada winning 4-3 no forward in the Ontario Universities Athletic Associa- Friday in Toronto and losing tb-4 Sunday in Calgary. tion who can be compared to the Soviet forwards. Monday in Thunder Bay, Dynamo won 7-3. The series .......-;_ ,._;.. 1-..-.- “n G-Aihta, " a,“ Whig“, ends tonight in Montreal. "Their skill levels are incredible," said Whistle. "They're so good with the puck, if they get a stride on you they're gone. 1tls very frustrating 'tlay.intryyrte guys." suinnnwho lookea very steady -in-Kitcheiter last Wednesday, echoed Whistle's sentiments. "They (Dynamo forwards) are all very strong when they get the puck," said Quinn. "You have to take them right out of the play and put the body on them. If you let up defensively they'll take advantage of it." Team Canada had lost its first four games to Dynamo at the time of the interview, but Quinn saw reason to! on timism. " ”Lift-Kink we should win a game or two," said Quinn. "in Windsor. we outshot them. It gave us some confidence that we outplayed them:", , . Grinbergs has taken a) athletes with him, primarily middle distance runners. and among them are many well known for topmtch performances. They include Doug Conaigiio, Leanne Finder. Lloyd Schmidt, Clive Hamilton, Mike Boomer Pete Gunmen But limited success against Dynamo, the leading team in the Soviet Union, means a lot. Dynamo is a club team and Team Canada is made up of about 40 players brought together from other teams. Making things more difficult, Team Canada's lineup changes from one night to the next. "As a team, they're quite a bit ahead of us," said Whistle. "I feel we've kept the games close and exciting and forced them to work to beat us. I think we're holding our own as far as circumstances are concerned." "The lack of communication was evident, particularly on defence," said King. "in-till; iifsjIGat the auditorium, Dynamo players were able to take advantage of giveaways and coach Dave King knew the ever-changing lineup posed difficulties. and Nick Cipp. The 20 represent about one-third of what was the K-W club‘s total membership, but the RM! group. which will continue to have a program for middle distance runners, has been adding newmemhers in the past two weeks. In fact. the K-W Club will continue to use facilities at Seagram Stadium, making it necessary for Grinbergs and assistant coach Ralph Treachke to find a new place to train. In a meet Sunday in London. Constgllo represented the Athlete's Foot Track Club very well by setting a new meet and stadium record of 2: 25.1 in the [.000 metre event as KW's Neville Douglas thtished second and Booker was fourth. Finder took bronze In the 1.500 In 4:43.8 and Rob lilies was third in the ntett's one in CIpp won the 1.500 In a personal best time of 4:053 and Hamilton was fourth In 4:06.3. Shani: Jamal finished In 4: 20.1 and Bob Ctteusiglio's time yas 4: 43.6. Those competing In 300 metre events Included Teresa Hartman (47.3). Chris Wood (37.9), Ray Hyde (39.5) and Peter Self (39.0). “I?! lie 60 metre event. Martineau's time was " and Wood's was 7.7.