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ic iribit marbi 2f4s6lnfet life after hockey root ready for a new career bruce stapley correspondent for stouffvilles bill root twilight is merely the forerunner of a new day and as the 30yearold veteran of 300 national hockey league games watches the sun set on his professional hockey career he is already witnessing the dawn of an endeavor he feels will be just as ful filling root the former toronto maple leafs defenceman who now mans the bluelhie for the american hockey leagues newmarket saints has spent the last year or so establishing his own general contracting busi ness called rootar the renovator a selfprofessed activity freak who says hes always working at photabruce stapley stouffvilles bill root is as at home behind a bandsaw as he is with a hockey stick the veteran defenceman with the american hockey leagues newmarket saints is preparing for life after professional hockey by starting his own business something root said he developed his love of carpentry from his father dad was very handy and he was a perfectionist explained root it seemed he was always working on something around the house and i learned a lot from him root has spent much of his spare time learning the art of contracting for the past eight years starting with his own house it started out as a hobby i built adeck put down parquet flooring buut some cupboards and a bar and put m a bathroom he said then i started doing some work for doug todd who has a pool com- pany here in stouffville and he taught me how to line up people to do the things i didnt want to do myself like plumbing and electrical work root now employstwb men on a fulltime basis and adds a half dozen more in the off season when he is able to devote himself to the business on an everyday basis such is the therapeutic effect of banging nails measuring cupboards and putting up walls that root maintains it was his interest in carpentry that kept him from hitting rock bottom when things were going poorly in his hockey career a while back a few years ago when the leafs were last in the league i was very disappointed he said i had comefrom the montreal ganadiens with their winning tradition i would just come home and head down to the basement to work on my projects it was a chance for me to get away from the problems with hockey while he has been told he should look into a career in broadcasting when his contract with the leafs expires at the end of next season the journeyman rearguard said he has no interest in working behind a microphone i did some work with joe bowen leafs broadcaster when i was injured during the 198384 season said root i enjoyed it and some people thought i was cut out for it but i dont want to pursue it and he wont hang on when he feels it is time to say goodbye to hockey i feel that when your hockey career ends you should just put it behind you said root its done i would never want to be playing just because i needed the money you have to move on to new inter ests 1 he said that many hockey players end up disappointed at the end of their careers and have difficulty establishing themselves in another line of work a lot of players have the mistaken impression that someone owes them something said root they meet people while they are playing who make promises about future careers for them but when they retire from hockey they find that those people dont know them anymore he said he still hasnt decided whether or not to play next season and that he may decide to retire and plunge himself right into contracting ive got the same feeling for this business contracting now that i had for hockey at the start root enjoys the contracting work so much that he said he sometimes has to pry himself away from a job to go out and line up futurebusir nessc he said the challenge of setting up a successful contracting operation is similar to putting together a good hockey team ive been working on setting it up for eight years said root just as in hockey where everyone has his job to do you have to find the right people to do all the different things that must be done on a job a perfectionist in the tradition of his father root said he spends a lot of time researching and reading every job is different he explained when i start a job ill go to the library and read up on it williams leads team to top spot jennifer williams scored both goals asstouffville bowling beat lindys flowers 21 to clinch first place in the whitchurchstouffville girls hockey associations junior girls house league sunday night at the recreation centre bowling and george ross photo were tied going into the final game of the schedule george ross was bounced 41 by mph earthmov- ingi who took third place in the league with the win lindys was fourth stephanie summerhill and cyn thia- mccaul had assists for bowl ing in their victory with lindsay upton assisted by dawn williamson clicking for lindys julie comito had a hat trick in the mph win while krista dudley added a single melissa dawson earned two assjsts and lauren glarkson one for the winners laura winterstein had george ross lone marker the playoffs start sunday with bowling versus lindys at 6 pm and george ross taking on mph at 7 pm atoms stay hot the stouffville boyds sports atom clippers ran their postseason unbeaten slreak to 12 games last week but watched their eight game winning string get snapped with a tie the clippers faced ajax in a home and home- set during march break week winning 61 at home monday before playing to a 11 draw on the road thursday night monday it was ryan king leading the way for stouffville with two goals and a pair of assists dan tardellahada goal and two set ups with kyle norton robbie spytz and kevin hackert rounding out the clippers goal production tim smart was credited with two assists and norton set up another score but ajax hung tough at home for the return encounter clinging to a 1- 0 lead until tardella clicked from king late in the middle frame the boyds boys continue their exhibition season with another- home and home set with sutton this week sdss hockey league puts fun back in game while this year may have been a nonentity at the upper age bracket in stouffvilles official hockey program things- are just beginning to heat up in stouffville district secondary school sdss morning hockey league playoff action the sdss loop mixes and matches students and teachers on teams with somewhat unlikely names like bells ding dongs affording the opportunity for some good natured competition between the two groups missing arc the bone crunching body checks the cheap shots and the total unwillingness to share ice space that so often character izes hockey games involving teens bent upon proving their masculinity every time out in fact in the sdss scheme of things penalties and pugilism are a definite nono with severe repercussions for the perpetrators of questionable sportsmanship a trio of infractions in one con test nets a player an early exit along with a one game suspen sion four penalties accumulated in any game will also result in the player watching a game from the sidelines and if you so much as drop your gloves you can dust off the golf clubs because you wont be playing hockey as for the action packed playoff roundrobinseries its de wells devils sitting atop the six team heap after three games sport notes bruce stapley zemps zeroes certainly arent living up to their names with a pair of victories and only one loss mcknights mixers have an even mix of one win one defeat- and a tie the same mark- as the aforementioned ding dongs willis warriors have two ties for their efforts and grahams crackers have managed a mere draw i jason stover fired a pair in the most recent mixers win a 65 decision over the warriors ron dempster had two scores for the losers x sdss principal alan dickson found the range in the zeroes 73 win against the ding dongs the devils edged the crackers 32 in a nip and tuck affair despite the goal scoring efforts of crackers father and sort combo howard and richard burkholder other marksmen in these games included bill mackie mck- night the schools former cn tower electrical contractor- turnedtechteacher volleyball guru fletch fletcher and ex- student council prez julian franklin the games continue this week with the players dragging them selves out of bed for seven am face offs the big day the game to decide who gets all the marbles is slated for friday march 30