Vernon Jr. Canadians 1961-1962 Season

NEWS ITEMS

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

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Pre-season

  • May 18, 1961; Four Team Junior Loop (source)
  • May 29, 1961; New Westmister Makes Bid For Junior franchise Here (source)
  • September 11, 1961; Junior 'A' Hockey League Probable Replacement For Stuggling Seniors (source)
  • September 25, 1961; Lowe Certain To Take Junior Job / First Meeting, Season Tickets, Shcedule (source)
  • October 02, 1961; Junior Hockey Organizational Meeting meeting. (source)
  • October 12 & 16, 1961; Lowe Worried At Poor Junior Camp (source) / (source)
  • October 19, 1961; Lowe Worried At Lack Of Response By City Boys (source)
  • October 23, 1961; Junior Season Tickets Go On Sale Saturday & Practices Set (source)
  • October 26, 1961; George Beck Quits Bombers: On Way Home (source)
  • October 30, 1961; New Junior Loop Opens Up Tuesday held. (source)

Season

  • November 2, 1961; Mayer Challenges Vernonites To Support Juniors (source)
  • November 9, 1961;Lowe Flays Hapless Canucks (source)
  • November 13, 1961; Juniors First Win Tuesday? (source)
  • November 16, 1961; Beck Returns Saturday (source)
  • November 20, 1961; High-Flying Bucs Here Tuesday (source)
  • November 23, 1961; Pirnak For Beck At Penticton (source)
  • November 27, 1961; Juniors May Recruit More Juveniles (source)
  • November 30, 1961; Haples Blues Seek Elusive Win Saturday (source)
  • December 4, 1961; Wayne Morris Among To 10 OJAHL Scorers, Wynnychuk Suspended For One Game & OJAHL Members Meet Here to Discuss League Problems (source)
  • December 7, 1961; OJAHL Action In Kamloops Ends In Fist-Swinging Brawl (source)
  • December 13, 1961; Infant OJAHL Has Stormy Start (source)
  • December 15, 1961; Vees Seek To Avenge OJAHL Loss (source)
  • December 18, 1961; Canucks Host OJHL Leaders (source)
  • December 21, 1961; Canucks Trek To Kamloops Saturday (source)
  • December 22, 1961; OJAHL Action Here Boxing Day & Buck Sherk Ranks Tenth In Junior 'A' Points Race (source)
  • December 27, 1961; Santa Nice To Juniors (source)
  • January 2, 1962; Juveniles To Stay In Junior Ranks (source)
  • January 4, 1962; Sports Round-Up by Terry Steward & Junior Blues Showing Well On The Road (source)
  • January 8, 1962; Blues Winger Still Among Junior Top 10 (source)
  • January 15, 1962; Canucks Host Junior Vees Tuesday Night (source)
  • January 18, 1962; Kamloops Ace Centre Leads OJAHL Scoring (source)
  • January 25, 1962; Canuck Centre Seiko Ouchi Receives Game Misconduct (source)
  • January 29, 1962; Junior Tilt Here Tomorrow, Jones Doudtfull Stater / Seiko Ouchi High Canuck In Point Race / OJAHL Playoff Dates Set At Sunday Meeting (source)
  • February 1, 1962; Sports Round-Up by Terry Steward (source)

Playoffs

  • February 5, 1962; Kamloops Rockets Dominate 1962 OMJAHL All-Stars (source)
  • February 15, 1962; Sports Round-Up by Terry Steward (source)

Post-Season

  • March 13, 1962; Composite OMJAHL Team To Play Rockets Saturday (source)
  • March 19, 1962; BC Champions Take Wynnychuk (source)

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

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REGULAR SEASON PLAYER STATS (Sortable Table)

No. Pos Player GP G A TP PIM
- G Beck, George 7 0 0 0 0
10 F Coulter 'Colter'?, 'Ike' Ivan - 5 3 8 6
- D Henry, Warren - 2 5 7 12
1 G Jones, 'Bobby' Bob cu 18 0 0 0 0
15 F Kineshenko 'Kineshanko'?, Gordon 'Gordie' - 6 6 12 8
5 F/D Kowal, Dave - 6 6 12 8
6 D MacKay Jr., Dave - 2 0 2 8
4 D Main, Reg - 1 2 3 6
9 F McBride, 'Al' Alec - 5 4 9 0
- - Miller, Denis - 2 1 3 2
- D Morris, Bruce - 0 0 0 0
14 F Morris, Wayne - 9 11 20 16
3 D Nuyens, 'Newins'? Gordon "Gord" 'Gordie' - 1 3 4 11
12 F Ouchi, Seiko cu 23 11 13 24 30
- G Pirnak, Larry cu 3 0 0 0 -
- D Roland, Don - 0 1 1 6
- F Roland, Gary - 3 2 5 16
11 F Sherk, 'Buck' Gary 'Garry'? - 10 20 30 25
8 F Sorochuk, Dale cu - 3 6 9 15
13 F/D Stein, Bob cu i - 13 3 16 2
7 F Stephen 'Stephens,Stevens'?, Jim cu - 3 5 8 16
- F Stern 'Sturn'?, Allen - 0 1 1 0
2 D Wynnychuk, Harry 'C' - 2 5 7 57

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REGULAR SEASON GOALIE STATS

# GOALIE GP GA AVG W L T OT SVS SA% PIM
1 Jones, Bob cu 18 112 6.66 5 12 1 3L - - -
- Pirnak, Larry cu 3 15 5.00 0 3 0 0 - - -
- Beck, George 7 50 7.14 1 6 0 1L - - -

cu= juvenile/midget / i= import for outside of region

Other players that may or may not have been on the team:

Ron Ball, Mannie Blaney, Gary Dickson, Dale Frandsen, Garth Gill, Dave Millar/Miller, Bob Morrison, Ron Ross, Eddie Spelay, Al Wejr

NOTE: The player stats were extracted from the provided "game recap articles" as best as I could decifer, they may or may not be accurate. A team consisted of 15 players, one goalie, four defence men, 10 forwards and had to be from the local area. Overtime was a none-sudden-death 10 minute period. The Jr. Canadians used juvenile and midget players for most of its scheduled games.

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REGULAR SEASON GAMES

GAME SCORES & RECAPS

REGULAR SEASON GAMES
OCTOBER TIME OPPONENT GF GA OT RECAP
31 Tue. 8pm v Kelowna Buckaroos 4 5 4-4, 4-5 Gm 1 (source)
NOVEMBER TIME OPPONENT GF GA OT RECAP
3 Fri. - @ Penticton Vees 2 4 X Gm 2 (source)
4 Sat. - @ Kelowna 3 7 X Gm 3 (source)
9 Thu. - v Kamloops 'Central' Rockets 3 10 X Gm 4 (source)
11 Sat. - @ Kamloops 2 11 X Gm 5 (source)
14 Tue. - v Penticton 6 7 4-4, 7-6L Gm 6 (source)
18 Sat. - @ Kelowna 2 8 X Gm 7 (source)
21 Tue. - v Kelowna 3 4 X Gm 8 (source)
24 Fri. - @ Penticton 2 6 X Gm 9 (source)
28 Tue. - v Kamloops 4 5 4-4, 4-5 Gm 10 (source)
DECEMBER TIME OPPONENT GF GA OT RECAP
2 Sat. - @ Kamloops 0 15 X Gm 11 (source)
5 Tue. - v Penticton 5 3 X Gm 12 (source)
9 Sat. 8pm @ Kelowna 1 13 X Gm 13 (source)
12 Tue. - v Kelowna 5 5 4-4, 5-5 Gm 14 (source 1) / (source 2)
15 Fri. - @ Penticton 2 6 X Gm 15 (source)
19 Tue. 8pm v Kamloops 4 8 X Gm 16 (source 1) / (source 2)
23 Sat. - @ Kamloops 2 11 X Gm 17 (source)
26 Tue. 230pm v Penticton 4 1 X Gm 18 (source)
30 Sat. - @ Kelowna 1 4 X Gm 19 (source)
JANUARY TIME OPPONENT GF GA OT RECAP
2 Tue. - v Kelowna 4 3 X Gm 20 (source)
5 Fri. - @ Penticton 3 5 X Gm 21 (source)
9 Tue. - v Kamloops 2 7 X Gm 22 (source)
13 Sat. - @ Kamloops 1 7 X Gm 23 (source)
16 Tue. - v Penticton 6 5 X Gm 24 (source)
20 Sat. - @ Kelowna 2 6 X Gm 25 (source)
23 Tue. - v Kelowna 3 5 X Gm 26 (source 1) / (source 2)
26 Fri. - @ Penticton 5 4 X Gm 27 (source)
30 Tue. 8pm v Kamloops 5 2 X Gm 28 (source)

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REGULAR SEASON TOTALS

GP W L T GF GA TP
28 6 21 1 86 177 13

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PLAYOFFS

PLAYOFF GAMES

DAVIES CUP - LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
Semi-Finals v Kelowna Buckaroos(2ND)
Date & Location GF GA RECAP
Feb. 6 Tue. @ Kelowna 2 1 PO Gm 1 (source) / (source)
Feb. 8 Thr. @ Vernon 4 5 PO Gm 2 (source)
Feb. 10 Sat. @ Kelowna 2 4 PO Gm 3 (source)
Feb. 13 Tue. @ Vernon 5 2 PO Gm 4 (source)
Feb. 17 Sat. @ Kelowna 1 5 PO Gm 5 (source)
Totals 14 17

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TEAM PERSONEL


TEAM PERSONEL

POSITION NAME
OWNER Bill Brown
MANAGER Howie Sugden
GENERAL MANAGER Bill Brown
HEAD COACH Odie Lowe
ASSISTANT Alex Kashuba
DIRECTOR Carl Sorenson
TEAM DOCTOR Hap Schaefer

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