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McCauley out, Richmond in as Raiders' coach EAMONN MAHER Staff Writer Blaine McCauley's stint as head coach of his hometown Georgetown Raiders lasted just 24 games before the OHA Provincial Jr. A Hockey League club replaced him and assistant Duke Bouskill over the weekend in the midst a four-game unbeaten streak. James Richmond will be behind the bench tonight (Wednesday) when the Raiders host the Buffalo Jr. Sabres at Alcott Arena beginning at 8 p.m. Raiders' owner Ted Nishi met with McCauley and Bouskill after Saturday's 3-3 home tie with Burlington to inform them of his decision. "I truly respect the admirable job that Blaine and Duke did, but we're half-way through the regular season at this point and we're in fifth place out of 10 teams in our division," said Nishi, who assumed the general manager's duties after Jack Moon resigned two weeks ago. 3-3 record, a "difference in "The unfortunate part of this philosophies" is what led to the business is that you have to make change. difficult management decisions "Duke and I had a vision of like this when a team isn't meeting bringing back the Raiders to the its expectations. From a timing Georgetown community using a standpoint, we've still got half a three-year period and we were on season left and if we had waited the right path, but there are people until January to make a change if involved with the organization things hadn't improved, it would who just want to win at all costs by BLAINE be too late to have any effect. We trying to buy a championship and McCAULEY are very fortunate that someone that's what's wrong with junior with James's background was hockey today," McCauley said. available and that he's excited to be joining "We stand for our principles and it's a matter us." of them (management) pulling in a different Nishi added that McCauley was asked to direction, and that's a different plan than bring in another assistant to help address the what we agreed to coach over the summer." team's defensive shortcomings, which had Richmond becomes the third Raider included breakdowns late in games against bench boss since the club's run to the Royal division rivals. For his part, the 30-year-old Bank Cup in May 2005. The 43-year-old McCauley said he was in the process of Mississauga native captained the University recruiting an assistant, and even with a 13-5- of New Hampshire's varsity team and later served as player/coach for pro teams in Denmark, Holland and Germany. Richmond has since become director of player development for the Ontario Hockey League' s Owen Sound Attack, as well as a coach for the Ontario Minor Hockey Association's under-17 Program of Excellence. "I know that there is a good core of leadership there and the type of players who have been in winning situations before," said the King City resident. "For me to come in during the middle of the season, one of the things I can do is to go over those games they've dropped, go back and look what went wrong and get those questions answered. Work ethic and building consistency are the keys." Richmond's assistants are Lucky DeGrazia and Craig Teeple. DeGrazia operates a youth hockey academy north of Toronto and the 35-year-old Teeple played several seasons professionally in Europe. Catholic Memorial to back-to-back Super 8 Boston-area high school championships. He has since bounced around to a number of Jr. A teams in North America, overcoming serious injuries and bad timing, still wanting to prove he's worthy of U.S. scholarship offers to schools such as Boston College, Northeastern and Alaska-Anchorage. Hartigan has posted a 9-6-3-0 record and 3.50 goals-against average so far for Georgetown. To make way for MahoneyWilson, 17-year-old backup netminder Cameron Healy was dealt to the Milton IceHawks. It's not known which goalie will get the call this evening from new head coach James Richmond as the Raiders host the 4-18-4-0 Buffalo Jr. Sabres at the Alcott Arena beginning at 8 p.m. The fifth-place 13-5-3-3 Raiders could get the quarterback on the power play they've been looking for after 20year-old Ryan Lee was released by the Austin Ice Bats of the Central Hockey League. Forward Kyle Schwende missed this past weekend's games to his firefighter training commitments but will return tonight. Matt Carter tallied twice for the Raiders in Saturday's draw with the Cougars, including the equalizer midway through the third period. Jeremy Whelan added a single marker for the hosts. Scoring for Georgetown against Bramalea were Adam Campbell, Rob Sgarbossa, Matt Thomson, George Lovatsis, Jonathan Quarrie, Adam DeJong and Jon Southgate. Also this week, the Raiders will travel to Oakville Friday to take on the Blades and then host the Hamilton Red Wings Saturday. Game time is 8 p.m. (Eamonn Maher can be reached at emaher@independentfreepress.com) GEORGETOWN JUNIOR "A" Raiders hope for net results EAMONN MAHER Staff Writer Perhaps overshadowed by a change in the coaching staff of the Georgetown Jr. A Raiders over the weekend was the acquisition of another 20-year-old goalkeeper with impressive credentials, creating what team officials hope will be a "friendly competition" for the starter's job. Well-traveled Brian Mahoney-Wilson was signed by the Raiders last week and made his debut in Friday's 7-3 win at Bramalea over the last-place Blues, in which he faced 23 shots. His new teammate in Georgetown, Kitchener native Keaton Hartigan, isn't likely to surrender his current status as the Raiders' go-to goaler, however, judged by his play in a 3-3 draw with the visiting Burlington Cougars Saturday night. Hartigan, MVP of the Mid-Western Jr. B league last season, made several excellent saves to help the scrambling Raiders, who were outshot 52-32 by the third-place Cougars, earn a point. For now, MahoneyWilson and Hartigan will be employed in a platoon system until a clear-cut starter emerges. And with OPJAHL clubs limited to nine 20-year-olds on their rosters, one of the goalies may not finish the season in Georgetown. "Competition is good. People forget we had two 20-year-old goalies when we went Georgetown Raider forwards Adam DeJong and Rob Sgarbossa try to dig out a rebound from a collapsing Burlington Cougar defence in their 3-3 draw Saturday night at the Alcott Arena in Jr. A hockey action. Despite being badly outplayed in the contest's late stages, the Raiders salvaged a 3-3 draw. Photo by Eamonn Maher to the Royal Bank Cup two years ago," said Raiders' director of hockey operations Peter Mavroudis. "It puts us in a position where we're comfortable with whoever's in goal and it shows how much this team wants to win. Keaton wasn't being pushed as the starter so we wanted to bring someone in who was going to make it competitive. (Hartigan) is still our number one and he proved that by going out and stealing a point for us against Burlington. At the same time, there's no guarantee either of them will finish out the year here. It does give us some options, because a lot of teams are looking for number-one goalies." A native of West Roxbury, Mass. and the nephew of San Jose Sharks' head coach Ron Wilson, the Sharks drafted Mahoney-Wilson in the ninth round of the 2004 NHL Draft after the 5-foot-10, 177-pounder led