Vernon Blades 1963-1964 Season

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NEWS ITEMS

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

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Note: Articles for individual games can be found beside each game score under heading 'RECAP' as Gm# (source)

Pre-season

  • June 6, 1963: Sunday Meeting To Decide Future Course of OJHL (source)
  • June 10, 1963: Penticton Quits OJHL Loop, Cariboo Clubs Seek Entry (source)
  • July 11, 1963: OJHL Calls Special Meet In Penticton (source)
  • July 25, 1963: Big Name Stars To Play In All-Star Hockey Game (source)
  • July 29, 1963: OJHL Fails To Revive V's, Out for 1963-64 Season (source)
  • September 5, 1963: Junior Hockey Meeting Sunday (source)
  • September 9, 1963: Junior Puck Schdule Now Being Drafted (source)
  • September 23, 1963: Moro Help Coach Junior Blades / Junior Hockey Season Set To Face Off October 12 (source)
  • September 30, 1963: Activity Now Astir In Junior Blade Camp (source)
  • October 03, 1963: This Could Be Jr. Blades' Big Year (source)
  • October 07, 1963: More Than 20 Tryouts Invade Jr. Blade Camp (source)
  • October 10, 1963: Junior Blades Should Be Ready For Rockets (source)

Season

  • October 15, 1963: Blades Draw Bead On Hot Rockets Tonight (source)
  • October 24, 1963: OJHL Scoring Race Tight; Agar 2nd In Point-Getting (source)
  • October 31, 1963: Holland Affair Causes Uproar (source)
  • November 7, 1963: Rockets Still Roaring Along Atop Junior League / League Stats (source)
  • November 12, 1963: Brown Attacks BCAHA Over Holland Transfer / Buckaroo Upset Puts Blades 8 Back (source)
  • November 18, 1963: Blues A Distant 2nd As Bucs Tie For Lead (source)
  • November 21, 1963: Shishido Still Sharpest Shot In Jr. Hockey Loop / Junior Blades Ask For Help (source)
  • November 28, 1963: Blues Visit Rocket Pad Saturday / Shishido Still Ahead (source)
  • December 02, 1963: Rocketmen Here Tuesday (source)
  • December 05, 1963: Corky Surges To 6th In OJHL Scoring Race (source)
  • December 13, 1963: 6 Players Battle For Top In OJHL Scoring (source)
  • December 20, 1963: League Leading Kamloopsians Here Saturday / Rockets Scorers Just One Big Happy Family (source)
  • January 01, 1964: Scads Of Sports During That Dead And Gone Year Of 1963 / Rockets Soar Along With Six-Point Lead (source)
  • January 06, 1964: Blades Face Bucks Twice This Week / Blade Blueliners Get Nod As OJHL's Best (source)
  • January 09, 1964: Shishido Continues To Pace OJHL Scorers (source)
  • January 23, 1964: Stein Top Goalgetter, 5th In Scoring Race / 12-Game Round Robin Set For Jr. Playoffs (source)
  • January 30, 1964: Roberge Top Trigger In Junior Puck Loop (source)

Playoffs

  • February 13, 1964: Rockets' Roberge OJHL Scoring King (source)
  • February 22, 1964: Rockets Take Kelowna Bucs In 'Practice' Scoring King (source)
  • February 27, 1964: Nuyens Named OJHL's Most Valuable Player / Shishido By A Length In Playoff Scorefest (source)
  • March 2, 1964: Playoff Statistics Show Rockets Tops (source)
  • March 3, 1964: Rockets Outlast Trail To Land Finals' Berth (source)
  • March 12, 1964: Rockets Lead Junior Final By Two Games (source)
  • March 16, 1964: Rockets Roar To Second BC Puck Title (source)
  • March 19, 1964: Rockets Adding Six From OJHL For Playoff (source)
  • March 23, 1964: Rockets Face Oil Kings This Week For Playoff (source)
  • March 30, 1964: Oilers Too Much For Rocketeers (source)
  • April 4, 1964: Oilers Too Much For Rocketeers (source)

Post Season

  • April 16, 1964: Junior Hockey Meeting Set For Monday Night Tonight (source)
  • April 20, 1964: OJHL Meet Here Tonight Tonight (source)
  • April 23, 1964: Import Ruling Ousted By OJHL Tonight (source)
  • April 30, 1964: Blades Holding Banquet Tonight (source)
  • May 04, 1964: Blade Gets MVP Award / Blades Hold Banquet Thursday (source)
  • May 28, 1964: Four Teams In OJHL With Penticton-S'land Entrance (source)

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REGULAR SEASON PLAYER STATS (Sortable Table)

No. Pos Player GP G A TP PIM
7 F Agar, Corky '48 v - 22 21 43 34
13 F Coulter, Ike v - 9 6 15 4
- - Harrison, Frank - 5 9 14 2
12 F Kinesanko, Gordie v - 2 3 5 81
14 RW Litsenberger, Ralph v - 3 9 12 8
2 D MacKay Jr., Dave 'C' - 1 9 10 54
- - Mandzuik, George - 3 2 5 9
- - McNeil, Howie v - 3 0 3 10
3 D Nuyens, Gordie 'Gord' v - 6 11 17 112
- F Rogan, Alan 'Al' v - 8 7 15 4
11 F Sherk, Bruce "Buck" v - 17 16 33 69
6 F Sorochuk, Dale v - 8 12 20 16
- F Spelay, Eddie - - - - -
10 F Stien, 'Bob' Bobby v - 28 21 49 34
8 F Stephen, Jim v - 3 7 10 -
- - Tantrum, Wilf - 2 1 3 10
- G Taylor, Dennis v 8 - - - -
- G Woodward, Brian 28 0 0 0 -
- - Wutzke, Wayne - 4 1 5 2

REGULAR SEASON GOALIE STATS

# GOALIE GP MIN GA AVG W L T SVS SA% PIM
- Woodward, Brian 28 - 163 5.82 - - - - - -
- Taylor, Dennis v 8 - 56 7.00 - - - - - -

NOTE: A team consisted of 15 players, one goalie, four defence men, 10 forwards and had to be from the local area.

Please, submit any stats to ( admin "at" vernonjrahockey "dot" ca )

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REGULAR SEASON GAMES

GAME SCORES & RECAPS

REGULAR SEASON GAMES
OCTOBER TIME OPPONENT GF GA OT RECAP
15 Tues. 8pm v Kamloops 'Central' Rockets 1 2 X Gm 1 (source)
16 Wed. - @ Kamloops 4 9 X Gm 2 (source)
18 Fri. 8pm @ Kelowna Buckaroos 1 5 X Gm 3 (source)
19 Sat. - v Kelowna 3 5 X Gm 4 (source)
22 Tue. 8pm v Kamloops 3 2 X Gm 5 (source)
26 Sat. 8pm @ Kelowna 7 8 X Gm 6 (source)
29 Tue. 8pm v Kelowna 9 4 X Gm 7 (source)
NOVEMBER TIME OPPONENT GF GA OT RECAP
2 Sat. 8pm @ Kamloops 3 8 X Gm 8 (source)
5 Tues. 8pm v Kelowna 5 6 X Gm 9 (source)
8 Fri. - @ Kelowna 4 7 X Gm 10 (source)
9 Sat. 9pm v Kamloops 2 6 X Gm 11 (source)
12 Tue. 8pm v Kelowna 4 6 X Gm 12 (source)
19 Tue. 8pm v Kamloops 6 3 X Gm 13 (source)
20 Wed. - @ Kamloops 2 12 X Gm 14 (source)
22 Fri. - @ Kelowna 3 5 X Gm 15 (source)
23 Sat. 9pm v Kelowna 2 4 X Gm 16 (source)
30 Sat. - @ Kamloops 5 11 X Gm 17 (source)
DECEMBER TIME OPPONENT GF GA OT RECAP
3 Tue. 8pm v Kamloops 9 7 7-7 ✔ Gm 18 (source)
4 Wed. 8pm @ Kamloops 6 12 X Gm 19 (source)
7 Sat. - @ Kelowna 3 7 X Gm 20 (source)
10 Tues. 8pm v Kelowna 4 8 X Gm 21 (source) / (source 2)
18 Wed. - @ Kamloops 1 11 X Gm 22 (source) / (source)
21 Sat. 9pm v Kamloops 8 5 X Gm 23 (source) / (source 2)
26 Thu. @ Kelowna 0 11 X Gm 24 (source)
JANUARY TIME OPPONENT GF GA OT RECAP
1 Wed. v Kamloops 3 10 X Gm 25 (source)
7 Tues. 8pm @ Kelowna 1 5 X Gm 26 (source) / (source)
8 Wed. - v Kamloops 1 4 X Gm 27 (source)
11 Sat. 8pm v Kelowna 5 4 X Gm 28 (source)
14 Tue. 8pm v Kamloops 2 5 X Gm 29 (source)
18 Sat. 8pm @ Kelowna 4 5 4-4 ✔ Gm 30 (source)
21 Tue. 8pm v Kelowna 4 3 X Gm 31 (source) / (source 2)
25 Sat. - @ Kamloops 3 6 X Gm 32 (source)
28 Tues. - v Kamloops 2 6 X Gm 33 (source)
30 Thu. - v Kelowna 4 7 X Gm 34 (source)

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REGULAR SEASON TOTALS

GP W L T GF GA TP
34 7 27 0 124 219 14

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PLAYOFFS PLAYER STATS (Sortable Table)

No. Pos Player GP G A TP PIM
7 F Agar, Corky '48 v - - - - -
13 - Coulter, Ike v - - - - -
- - Harrison, Frank - - - - -
12 - Kinesanko, Gordie v - - - - -
14 - Litsenberger, Ralph v - - - - -
- D MacKay Jr., Dave 'C' - - - - -
- - Mandzuik, George - - - - -
- - McNeil, Howie v - - - - -
3 D Nuyens, Gordie 'Gord' v - - - - -
- F Rogan, Alan 'Al' v - - - - -
11 F Sherk, Bruce "Buck" v - - - - -
6 F Sorochuk, Dale v - - - - -
- F SPELAY, Eddie - - - - -
10 F Stien, 'Bob' Bobby v - - - - -
8 F Stephens, Jim v - - - - -
- - Tantrum, Wilf - - - - -
- G Taylor, Dennis v - - - - -
- G Woodward, Brian - - - - -
- - Wutzke, Wayne - - - - -

PLAYOFF GOALIE STATS

# GOALIE GP MIN GA AVG W L T SVS SA% PIM
- WOODWARD, Brian - - - - - - - - - -
- TAYLOR, Dennis v - - - - - - - - - -

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PLAYOFFS

PLAYOFF GAMES

DAVIES CUP - LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
Round-Robin Results GP W L
Kamloops Rockets 8 7 1
Kelowna Buckaroos 7 3 4
Vernon Blades 7 2 5
Vernon versus Round-Robin Results GP GF GA RECAP
Gm 1 Wed. Feb. 5 @ Kamloops Rockets 2 11 (source)
Gm 2 Sat. Feb. 8 @ Kelowna Buckaroos 3 9 (source)
Gm 3 Tue. Feb. 11 v Kelowna 4 3 (source)
Gm 4 Sun. Feb. 16 2pm v Kamloops 7 3 (source)
Gm 5 Tue. Feb. 18 v Kelowna 2 3 (source)
Gm 6 Wed. Feb. 19 @ Kamloops 1 15 (source)
Gm 7 Sat. Feb. 22 v Kamloops 5 1 (source)
Gm 8 Sat. Feb. 25 @ Kelowna Game Not Needed X
Total Of Round-Robin All Opponents 24 45 X

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PLAYOFFS TOTALS

GP W L GF GA
7 3 4 24 45

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TEAM PERSONEL


TEAM PERSONEL

POSITION NAME
OWNER Bill Brown
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Bill Brown, Hal Gordon, Carl Sorenson, Brian Willows, Bill Tait, Mrs. Betts(Honorary) - (source)
HEAD COACH & MANAGERS Hap Shaefer & Jim Moro
EQUUIPMENT MANAGER Perry Romeo

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PAGE CONTRIBUTERS


PAGE CONTRIBUTERS

Page Contributers:

  • Andrew Hamilton (9/11/22)
  • Chris Heisenberg (2/19/21)
  • British Columbia Regional Digitized History - Kelowna Daily Courier
  • Thompson-Nicloa Regional Library System - NewsHound Thompson-Nicola Region - Kamloops Daily Sentinel
  • Vernon News Articles - The Museum & Archives of Vernon via Gwyn Evans

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