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Canale faced with tough decisionsKITCHENER, Ont. (CP) — Making tlie final cuts to Canada’s national junior team roster wasn’t a chore the coaching stalT was looking forward to.Head coach Joe Canale was to decide overnight Friday which six players will get the bad news before naming Canada’s 22-player roster this morning.The most difficult challenge is trimming the final three forwards, said Canale on Friday.Line combinations will play an important factor in deciding who will be named, Canale said‘It comes back to size, strength and skill. We’ll have to have a goodbalance. ’Canaleafter his team lost 4-3 to an club made up of players from OHLteams.It comes back to size, strength and skill. We’ll have to have agood balance.Right now we’re all anxious to name the team to take the pressure off. The players are mentally tired at this point.ENCYCLOPEDIA WINNER - Medicine Hat’s Elizabeth Mitchell thumbs through one of the Canadian Encyclopedia volumes she won in a draw for nominating Larry Serr for Coach of the Year. The coaching award, sponsored by the Medicine Hat News, AEC Oil and Gas, and the Alberta Sport Council,eventually went to Murray Hamilton, a hockey coach for the Redcllff Pizza Hut Bantam AA Canadians. And in a draw of all the winning coaches in Alberta, Grande Prairie’s Ray Sylvester won $1,000 to put toward amateur sports In his community.— New9 photo Peter MehTwo more players were released Friday — Jason Gladney of the Kitchener Rangers and Daniel Querard from the College Francais de Verdun — reducing the roster to 28.“Everyone this year gave it a real good efTort, said Canale, who was to huddle with the national juniors' head scout, Sheldon Ferguson, and assistant coaches Dan Flynn and Mike Johnston. “I said that in the middle of the week, that when you gave the players instructions, they were all very attentive.”Canale also said that nobody stood out during the week-long camp.That’s one of the reasons why we had so many players out of the line-up in our exhibition games, and why we sat a line tonight after the first period.”Mike Peca (Ottawa 67*s), Jason Allison (London Knights) and Martin Qendron (Hull Olym-piques) were given a break after the first period, while another eight players were given the night off: Drew Bannister CSault Ste. Marie), Joel Bouchard (College Francais de Verdun), Brent Tully (Peterborough Petes), Yanick Dube (Laval Titan), Aaron Gavey (Sault Ste. Marie), Rick Girard (Swift Current) and Todd Harvey (Detroit).The area that concerns us the most is exactly what came out today, said Canale. We have to have the right blend of strength, speed and skill. We were heading towards speed and skill with very little strength, but now we’re really going to have to look at that combination.Speed and skill will get you the puck some of the times in the comers, but strength will giveyou control. That’s why we’llhave to take a closer look at players like (Jason) Botterill, (JefD Friesen, (Eric) Lecompte and (Bryan) McCabe, who can play both ways.After announcing the roster, the Canadians will drive to Toronto to board a flight to Switzerland for a six-day training camp.They have an exhibition game against Swiss First Divisions Ambri-Piotta on Tuesday and Zug on Wednesday.
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Sat, Dec 18, 1993
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