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' ■Allan Cup Playoffsspth$1citTo Be Played In U.S.to:V!clfohefoBy AL EATONVANCOUVER (CP) — For the first time, playoffs leading to the Allan Cup, enibiamatic of senior amateur hockey supremacy in Canada, will be played in the United States. :The Spokane, Wash., Jets this week won the Western International Hockey League championships by defeating Kimberley, B.C., Dynamiters in five games of a best-of-seven playoff series -in Drumhellec Saturday and Sunday.Spokane, first-place finishers in the WJLHL regular season, opens the Alberta-B.C. best-of-seven series in Drumheller Saturday and Sunday.Remaining games 'will be played in Spokane. It marks the first Allan Cup elimination games outside Canada. The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association made this possible by reversing a rule that required Allan Cup eliminations be played in Canada.Among players on Spokane's roster is Grant Warwick Jr., 24-year-old son of the famed Grant'Warwick who played with Penticton Vees when they won the world championship for Canada in 1955. Grant was player coach; brother Dick and Bill were with the same club.The WTHL has a good record in world competition. Trail Smoke Eaters from that league won Canada its last world title, in 1961.Spokane provided the first U.S. threat to a Canadian title in 1957 when it reached the Western Canada finals beforebeing eliminated. \Since that Lime, teams fromWarroads, Minn., and Grand Forks, N.D. have challenged for the Allan Cup in the west. Both were eliminated in this year’s competition of the Thunder Bay division.Although these clubs are ! American-based, just^as 10 of 12 teams are in the National Hockey League, 99.1 per cent of the players are Canadians, said Fred Page, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.The latter fact irritates the city of Vancouver, rejected in its . original. bid for a major league franchise.’ So much so that the B.C*. legislature this week passed a resolution urgingthe NIIL to grant Vancouver a franchise in its latest application.The. resolution said Canada leads the way in development, investment of public funds for facilities, and minor league programs, yet franchises are going to centres other than Canadian ones.Now, the CAHA for the first time is allowing national elimination playoffs outside Canada. With the Allan Cup finals slated to. be played in the’ west this j year, Spokane will be the site if Jets reach the final.The cup winner traditionally represents.- Canada • in international competition abroad.arbtscccbiatrtl—- .North Stars Openv 1 t * • :Cup Ticket Sales1cVsiC‘ThaCitfictisThe Minnesota. North Stars have announced their ticket policies for the Stanley Cup playoffs, scheduled to begin April .4 on the home ice of the first and second-place teams in both the West and East Divisions of the National Hockey League.Season ticket holders have already been sent priority forms enabling them . to buy their regular season seats. Season patrens have until March 25 to pay in full for their tickets. Unclaimed tickets will be transferred to the public pool after the 25th;Public orders will open on March 26. No orders will be accented postmarked prior to March 26, 1968. Prices will beeach of which could include four home games for the North [Stars, depending on their regu-j lar season finish.The tickets will be coded A-l for the first game of the first or quarter-final series, A-2 for the second quarter-final game, A-3 and A-4. The semi-final series will be coded B-l, B-2, B-3 and B-4. If Minnesota gains the Stanley Cup finals, that series will be coded C-l, C-2, C-3 and C-4.Thus, a person ordering four $3.50 seats would receive . 32 tickets or four tickets for each; of eight games. Total cost would be S112.Four sets of S4.50 ticketswould cost $144, four at S6.00 ..u c*i no fmiT* it Q7 00
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Mar 21, 1968
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