OUZAS o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2006-03-30 published
CONWAY steps up for Attack
Backup goalie gets call minutes before 7-2 Owen Sound win
By Bill WALKER,
Sun
Times sports editor, Thursday, March 30,
There really wasn't any time for Neil
CONWAY to get nervous.
The 18-year-old Owen Sound Attack goalie was all set to take
his customary seat at the end of the bench Wednesday where he
would watch veteran overager Michael
OUZAS start against the
Kitchener Rangers.
But a bout of the flu made it impossible for
OUZAS to keep anything
down, which meant
CONWAY had five minutes warning that he'd be
the Game 4 starter in the Ontario Hockey League playoff series.
“Sometimes it's better to just get out there into the game without
knowing but I had an idea that I may have to go in,”
CONWAY said
after being named the game's second star for a 35-save performance
in the Attack's 7-2 victory over the Rangers.
“After the first couple shots I felt pretty comfortable.&rdquo
OUZAS left the ice with three minutes remaining in the warmup
Wednesday. He was evaluated by team doctors and was diagnosed
as having the flu and being dehydrated.
He's listed day-to-day.
“The decision was basically made after warmup so nobody had any
time to dwell on it,” said Attack coach Mike
STOTHERS.
“When a guy is threatening to vomit in the crease, or worse,
you just can't do it so Neil had very little time to prepare.
To his credit, he's been putting in so much extra time that it's
great to see him rewarded.&rdquo
The Attack now have a commanding 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven
Western Conference quarterfinal series.
Game 5 is set for Friday in Kitchener. If necessary, Game 6 will
go Saturday in Owen Sound. Game time at the Harry Lumley Bayshore
is 7: 30 p.m.
The Attack started the game with a sense of urgency, looking
to give their sophomore goalie an early lead.
Jeff KYRZAKOS and Bobby
RYAN put Owen Sound up 2-0 eight minutes
into the game, but the Rangers tied it as Cory
KONECNY and Matt
AUFFREY scored 3: 12 apart late in the period.
“There are a lot of adjectives I could use (for this game) but
most of them aren't appropriate for audiences,” said Rangers'
coach/general manager Peter
DEBOER.
“They faced some adversity with their backup goalie going and
they found a way to get a win. It's eerily like Eric
PFLIGLER
coming in here last year,” he said, a reference to the Rangers
backup who took the team to the conference final last season.
Andrej SEKERA gave the Attack the lead with 1: 28 remaining in
the first when the puck squirted out from behind the net and
he was able to shovel it past a startled Rangers goalie Dan
TURPLE.
Mike ANGELIDIS made it 4-2 in the second when he stepped out
of the penalty box and took a pass from
SEKERA, breaking in alone
and beating
TURPLE with a backhand high to the glove side.
Owen
Sound blew it open in the third as
ANGELIDIS scored his
second of the game, this one shorthanded.
KYRZAKOS scored his
second 10 minutes later on a two-man power play and centre Scott
GILES finished it off with a late shorthanded marker.
“Our special teams worked and I think that was key,” said
ANGELIDIS.
“You have to give credit to Neil
CONWAY. He stepped up huge for
us.&rdquo
TURPLE made 26 saves on a night when he got little help from
his defence.
“I feel bad for
(TURPLE) because he's a guy who battled all year
for us and we really hung him out to dry,” said
DEBOER.
“I think we had an opportunity here to change the momentum of
the series, but we would have had to show up and get off the
bus and be ready to battle. Our big players who have not been
big in the first three games had an opportunity to come in here
and turn the series around. We didn't get contributions from
anybody.&rdquo
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OUZOUNIAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-06-03 published
Leon POWNALL excelled on stage, television and film
By Richard
OUZOUNIAN,
Theatre
Critic,
Page A8
Leon POWNALL, an actor well known for his stage appearances across
Canada as well as his work on television and film, died of cancer
at Stratford General Hospital yesterday morning. He was 63.
POWNALL was born in Wales and emigrated to Canada with his family
in 1957. He joined the Stratford Festival in 1964 and appeared
with it frequently until 2002, where his Shakespearean roles
included Henry VIII, Antony and Claudius.
He appeared from coast to coast in roles as varied as Elvis Presley
for the Charlottetown Festival and Sheridan Whiteside for the
Vancouver Playhouse.
Among his many feature films, he will best be remembered for
his role as McAllister opposite Robin Williams in Dead Poets'
Society and on television he was nominated for a Gemini for playing
Dr. Ewen Cameron in the mini-series The Sleep Room.
Yesterday,
Stratford's
Artistic Director, Richard
MONETTE, remembered
POWNALL as "a wonderful actor as well as a director and a writer."
POWNALL had also become closely associated with the work of Dylan
Thomas, creating and performing a one-man show about the Welsh
poet called Do Not Go Gentle. Geraint Wyn Davies later took over
the role, including a run at Stratford in 2002 and a successful
engagement off-Broadway.
POWNALL's last appearance was in Four
Minutes, a television movie about runner Roger Bannister.
He leaves his parents, two sons and a stepdaughter.
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