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p20 weekender saturday february 71998- st the tribune orts leisure got a score call our hotline at 6402100 mays playing days now in vancouver brad may brad may ended his 6 12- year stay with the buffalo sabres exactly the way he started it the 26yearold stouffville minor hockey product scored a goal on his first shift in the sabres 22 tie with the boston bruins wednesday in buf falo just as he had done in his debut game oct 4 1991 against the pittsburgh penguins may was traded to the vancouver canucks for geoff sanderson immediately after wednesdays game the winger was to be on a line with canucks leading scorer pavel bure and mark messier when the vancouver squad played in edmonton against the oilers on fri day while may flew to vancouver thursday morning he along with his parents ken may of stouffville and linell curr of markham were still trying to adjust to the shock mixed emotions its quite a mix of emotions sad ness joy fear excitement all at the same time ken may said of his sons reaction ken who attended wednesdays game with councillor cliff dunkeld and stouffvilles bob mcneill was with his son when sabres officials told him about the deal wednesday night curr said its going to be difficult for her sons family as well as the markhambased family of brads wife brigette brigette was a little shaky said curr shes never been far from home and weve always been such a close family while curr was consoled by the fact shell have easy access to van couver because of her job with air transat holidays ken lamented no longer being able to drive to buffalo for brads home games its going to be a long drive to vancouver quipped ken may brad and brigette may who have a twoyearold son tyler own a house just outside buffalo its disappointing that way said ken may but its all part of the game mays parents agreed the trade will likely be positive thing in the end its probably an opportunity for brad said ken may hesaid his son had no real advance notice of the deal there are rumours every year the sabres are in the thick of the race for the eighth and final national hockey league eastern conference playoff spot while the canucks are dead last in the western conference curr said her son and his wife planned to sit tight with regard to their home in buffalo and wont consider buying a place in vancouver this sea son no homebuying plans vancouver isnt likely to make the playoffs although it would be great if they did so theyll only be there til april nothing the turbulence with the canucks this season she suggested her son could be traded again at sea sons end curr said her sons numerous chari ty involvements in buffalo will make him hard to replace ive already had lots of calls from people who were upset brad who was the sabres players union rep is cochair of buffalos juvenile diabetes association he is involved with a hospital for children with cancer and helps out with the salvation army and cystic fibrosis society in buffalo he is also involved with inner city kids projects brad may will be in toronto when the canucks come to play the leafs march 21 may amassed four goals and seven assists in 34 games this season wheres the puck spirit of stouffville forward dave zelasko left looks desperately for the puck which appears to be somewhere between collingwood blues defenceman paul anderson 3 and goal keeper jonathon forest during thursdays provincial junior a contest at die rec centre looking on at the play are blues forward shawn banks 7 and spirit forward andrew patriache the blues won the game 72 phutu by sjoerd witteveen spirit are left singing the blues in a 72 loss the spirit of stouffville will be out to even their twogame mini- series with the kingston voyageurs when the teams take to the rec centre for a 530 pm faceoff today the voyageurs who are in the midst of a three team battle for second place in the provincial junior a hockey leagues rud dock division downed the spirit in kingston when the teams met in november todays game is a make up affair for the match that had to be rescheduled when the voyageurs couldnt get out of kingston due to the ice storm on jan 10 things dont get any easier for the spirit who dropped their third straight game thursday 72 to the firstplace collingwood blues the stouffville team went into thursdays match without six regulars and with only regular defencemen phil vito and phillipe lakos in uniform due to suspensions incurred against the lindsay muskies last thursday while jason ellis craig guil- iani steve pocock joe byles and rickey ridout will also miss todays game spirit leading scor er darcy king will be missing as well king was drawn into a fight midway through the third period thursday while another fight was already in progress calling for an automatic two game suspension the collingwood guy just dropped his gloves and started punching darcy complained spirit head coach dan larmer he had to protect himself the spirit got goals from phil barski and kevin edgar thurs day both coming in the third period after the blues had built up a 40 lead after 40 minutes larmer said while the score was convincing- the play wasnt all that one sided the shots were even at 25 for each team it really wasnt a 72 game but i guess 72 is still 72 kyle harrison was called upon from the midget clippers to help fill out the short spirit bench forwards randy stolec and geoff keillor were moved back to defence the spirit will be looking for their first victory of the season over the newmarket hurricanes in newmarket on sunday spiritually speaking edgar was named the eastern confer ences most improved player and most sportsmanlike player last week at the annual general man agers meeting edgar who only managed 37 points last season currently sits in second place in the conference scoring race with 95 points king was most improved player last season kyle chapman was in uniform for the east conference team at wednesdays provincial league future stars game in bramalea king played in the 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