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and follow Steeles until reaching Bratalea Road, where you make a left. Follow Bramalea until Avondale, turn left, and the 1,300â€"seat arena is on your left. Note: Barrie forward Alex Nikolic was visited by two members of the Waterloo Regional Police following Sunday night‘s game at Waterloo Arena. A fan laid a complaint against the player after Nikolic leaned over the glass and hacked at the fan‘s arm. No charges were laid. By contrast, Waterloo has received outstanding goaltendâ€" ing from Scott MacDonald in the playoffs â€" particularly against Barrie. If you happen to be keeping score, Waterloo has greater bench strength, better g::rtending (if MacDonald stays hot), better defence and a more potent offence. Bramalea though, as they have proved several times already in the playoffs, is not about to roll over and die. But then again, they haven‘t faced the Siskins yet. Everything I‘ve been able to put together points towards an easy Waterloo win, but as Barrie coach McCann will be the first to point out, that doesn‘t amount to much in playoff Birections: The series‘ opener fwill be held Friday night at 8:15 in Victoria Park Arena. Follow the 401 East to Highway In goal â€" where Bramalea suffers from hot n‘ cold syndrome â€" Desjardine will likely go with Rob Swastek. The No. 1 goalie finished the regular season with a 3.48 GA average, fifth best in Metro. Kerrie Coleman is the other OHA finals? Answer: Larry Eliados. Eliados is joined on the blueline by Rory Hunt (both of which are big and slow), Mike Aikins, Paul Ranieri and Randy Moffit. Tough guy Steve Catney still has five games remaining on an eightâ€"game suspension he received for his part in a braw! with Niagara Falls. 10 and take the North cutâ€"off. Bramalea is suspect defensively with the exception of 17â€" yearâ€"old Todd Chambers, who has collected six goals and 26 assists in the playoffs. Another defenceman is also the answer to a trivia question. Can you name the only Bramalea player to have also played for the Blues when they lost to Waterloo in the 1985 _Colts‘ coach Mike McCann had only three lines against Waterloo‘s four and claimed it â€" along with Siskins‘ forechecking â€" was the difference in the series. The checking line â€" which has been scoring with some regularity during the playoffs â€" is centred by Jim Wickware with Mike Manuel and Tâ€"ov Mann on the wings. Stephen Sonoski and Daniel Naumovski, both firstâ€"year players, are substituted into all three lines. Most of the forwards are quick. The second line consists of Rick Hay at centre (26 goals and 41 assists during the regular season), Tim McNamara (36 playoff points) and newcomer Brian Barron, who joined Bramalea near the end of the season and chipped in with eight goals and 18 assists in a dozen games. Cooke is joined on Bramalea‘s No. 1 line by Jason Greyerbiehl (33 goals and 27 assists during regular season) and centre Lucky DeGrazia. Cooke and Greyerbieh] are both headed to Colgate University next fall. t at Steeles Avenue Niagara Falls Canucks 4â€"1 in the other bestâ€"ofâ€"seâ€" ven OHA semiâ€"final series. Niagara Falls was regre.enting the Golden Horseshoe League. hould Waterloo win the series against Bramalea, Mercury will likely follow up the dressing room performance with an encore. After all, Queen also performs " We are the Champions." Sunday‘s game at Waterloo Arena was really never in doubt as Waterloo exploded from the ogening faceâ€"off and held the Central League champions in check for most of the game. And even when Barrie poured it on â€" which wasn‘t often â€" they ran into Siskins‘ goaltender Scott MacDonald, who played Tecun:ul-r throughout the series. Barrie goaltender Gary Wray managed to hold Waterloo off the scoresheet until the 23â€"second mark of the second period when Mike Gingerich scored the game‘s first goal. Siskins moved ahead 2â€" 0 at 15:40 when Rob Warren scored a softâ€"goal between Wray‘s pads. Gingerich then scored his second of the game on a power play at 5:25 of the third to put the game out of reach. Siskins‘ defenceman Paul Kleinknecht and Barrie‘s Luc Lacoursiere exchanged goals midway through the period to arrive at the final score. Both Gingerich‘s goals came on similar plays with the The coaches and players talked until they went blue in the face, but the most concise version of what happened in the Ontario Hockey Association junior B finals belonged to Freddie Mercury, lead singer for the rock group Queen. â€" "...and another one‘s gone, and another one‘s gone, another one bites the dust," Mercury belted from the portable stereo in the Waterloo Siskins‘ dressing room Sunday night, moments after the Midwestern league champions had defeated Barrie Colts 4â€"1 to take the bestâ€"ofâ€"seven series by the same count. Siskins will now meet Bramalea Blues for the allâ€" Ontario crown beginning Friday night in Bramalea. The Blues, champions :1? the Metro League, defeated Mark Bryson Chronicle Staff d is over naige Cone, tou:r wine over Eramatea Sloce in the Onk Lingle and you can The final hurdle Siskins in OHA finals after harnessing Colts WATERLOO CHARONICLE, WEDNESDAY APRIL 20, 1988 â€" PAGE Waterloo‘s record is now 15 wins and two losses in postâ€"season play. ‘"Whoever said they (Waterloo) aren‘t talented is full of (expletive)," said McMann. "I‘d love to have a Shelp, Farquhar or DuBois on my team. And that No. 6 (Kleinknecht), did you see the way that guy finished a check? He‘s a rock." ‘‘They‘re an outstanding hockey club, they deâ€" served to win and I wish them the best in the Ontario finals," said McCann. "They had more depth than us and they were always one step ahead of us." ¢ Harrigan had the luxury of rotating four balanced lines throughout the series while McCann had three, one‘:)f which was noticably weaker than the other two. The other factor lending itself to a Waterloo win was the competition the two teams faced during the regular season. Barrie lost on game all year and was never seriously challenged while Waterloo always had a tough go of it against Elmira Sugar Kings and Stratford g\)xllitom. Barrie coach Mike McCann agreed with Harrigan that the difference in the series was Waterloo‘‘s depth, forechecking and MacDonald. _ ‘"And the more they (opposing defenceman) hit me, the more I get into the game. I like to be hit." Siskins‘ coach Gerry Harrigan admitted to reporâ€" ters following the game that he knew very little about his team‘s opponent in the OHA final, but offered his opinion on what may transpire in the games to come. "All I can say is that it‘s going to take a helluva team to beat us now," said Harrigan, savoring the taste of a postâ€"game beer. o ‘"‘Barrie played a great series and has some truly excellent players, but we really took it to them. I‘m really proud of my guys right now." _ _ ‘‘My job (on the power play) is to move the puck from the corners and then go to the front of the net and collect the garbage," said the likeable big guy in a postâ€"game interview. â€" muscular winger taking a position in the slot and then simply firing the puck along the ice past Wray.