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What! No Waterloo Siskin hockey in March or l e e o It‘s been a long time since Siskins bowed out in the first round of the Midwestern junior B hockey league playoffs. How long? Apparently the last time Siskins found themselves watching along the sidelines was back in the 1983/84 season when they lost four straight to Stratford Cullitons. Dutchmen took a page out of Siskin play book And it‘s been even longer than that when Siskins, which finished fourth in the league, were taken out of commission in the playoff opener by an eighth place team. Yet, that‘s what happened Saturday night at Kitchener‘s Lions Community Arena when the Dutchâ€" men posted a 7â€"6 win at 3:31 of double overtime clinching the series 4â€"2. Siskins have fallen from grace when comparing them to last year‘s provincial winning junior B hockey club. With 10 returning players, a crop of highly touted rookies and a new coach behind the bench, it‘s difficult to accept that their fate was to be decided in the first round. Fingers will point at coach Brian Hayton. Afterall, when a hockey team is successful, it‘s because of the way the organization is run. When they lose, all eyes focus on the coach. However, that‘s not to say that Hayton is responsiâ€" ble for what happen during the past six games. Although Siskins dominated Kitchener during the regular season, since Christmas Dutchmen turned things around while Siskins struggled. Eventually their struggled carried over into the playoffs. R Chad Beaupre played three seasons for Shfl. winning the -IQflS-Mbgnurio j\lmc Mm ) followed a seaâ€" son when his club was eliminated by Like father, like son in the Beaupre family 'ISZ frightening how history repeats For example, Waterioo Siskin captain > t P > 43 2 10 n i2 & (pwte | pmmwoee Pnd , CA e / remomnoune imnaitomec t s a Lt ue mt «oi Call it deja vu, but both Siskin teams lost to Kitchener in six games. Saturday night‘s game," said Beaupre after Siskins 7â€"6 overtime loss to Kitchener offs in six games. For the younger Beaupre, who will be 21 . this month, it wasn‘t the way he wanted to ~Anish his junior B hockey career, but aunfortunately, history has this knack of It was a former Siskin who put the nail in the Siskin coffin as newly hired coach and former Siskin Terry McCutcheon, who replaced Tony Schmaltz, taught Dutchmen how to play grind it out hockey, something Siskins wrote the book on. McCutcheon, who won a scoring title with Waterloo, was on two Ontario championship teams with Siskins in the 1980s was a good student of the game and memorized the "How to Grind the Opposition to Death" chapter of the Siskin book. Yes, we have no hockey! As they say at the Waterloo Recreation Complex, ‘That‘s the way the puck bounces.‘ _ _ s Last season Siskins were playing hockey and makâ€" ing money until May. Just how much money? Trying to obtain that information is like pulling hen‘s teeth. The bottom line is, how will the lack of playoff hockey affect the revenue at the Complex? According to Howie Dietrich, Director of Facility Services at the Complex, there‘s no real financial impact with Siskins eliminated. â€" "If the Siskins would have gone to a seventh game, I‘m sure we would have had a good crowd in here and both the Siskins and the facility would have realized a good revenue recovery," said Dietrich who estimated that a crowd of 1,000 would have brought in close to $8,000 in revenue, including ticket sales and the conâ€" cessions. "To a certain extent to the Siskins they were lucky they weren‘t playing Owen Sound (Greys) because their expenses would have been really high with a very small return." According to Dietrich, while it‘s nice to have the revâ€" enue come in from Siskin playoff hockey, they also have to look beyond Siskins in order to bring in an income. Over the past month the Recreation complex has brought in events such as the Gold Medallion Preâ€" cision Skating Championships, the Final Four OUAA hockey championships and this weekend‘s Skate Ontario Precision Championships. "You can‘t operate any facility on the basis that _ in CwWO§SSA senior boys basketball play last week your hockey teams are going to be in the playoffs. Reb‘s, but couldn‘t win in the end. Turn to page 31. "For them, it was a real builder, but somehow it didn‘t fazé us. There was still a "I thought we deserved that Waterloo Viking Jon Awad gets past an Eastwood Rebel defender in CWOSSA senior boys basketball play last week. Vikings beat the WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8. 1995 . PAGE 25 11 Open Sunday by Dutchmen goalie Trevor Francis who made the save of the game off David Pfohl gloving down a clear shot with just 1:48 left in the first overtime period. "I thought we deserved that game. We really worked hard for 60 full minutes. That was our game, but I guess it just doesn‘t turn out that way sometimes." Looking back on the season, the Siskin captain felt that the team had an easier first half of the season and the team slide began in the tougher second half. Ahb?fibwwflm of janior B hockey, he will continue to play flflhlfl%&“-& son in a Wilfrid Laurier Goiden wim. â€" 6 pam., Including Holid 181 King St. S., Waterloo mifreâ€" ~ BREWING ppalel. e