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Canadian hockey is competitive in Europe

By Sherman

Where does Canada really rate on the ice in the rink of international hockey?

More than a good number of Canadian hockey fans and respected personages within the North American ice hockey establishment con— tend that Soviet Russia has surpassed this country in over—all playing calibre and productionof world—class hockey players.

The U.S.S.R. is now, in the Canadian mind, the best hockey-playing nation in the world.

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I, as a hockey fan expressing a purely lay opinion, feel that Canada

still presents a 'romantic unknown quality to Europeans.

The Soviets and Czechs need us more than we need them.

For the CCCP Big Team to be convinced that they are a great team of skaters, along with their two or three premier league teams, they have to lay to rest their doubts by always challenging Canada’s top pro league, the NHL.

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within the European ice hockey arena — the Czechs are the only ones who can come close, having a first division nearly as good as the Soviet Preimer League.

Now, where does Canada fit in? '

I believe Canada is equal in grading with the Soviet Union, even though the facts from international matches of the past six or eight years do not bear this out.

Of course, the North American style is different from its European counter- part. Excuses aside, though, the structure and objectives of the North American system are oriented to commercial profit for the owners.

In some years of com- petition, the Canadians cannot ice their very best players, while the Soviets can do this year after year.

What am I leading up to?

There is no doubt that the Russians have one of the world’s greatest teams. The Czechs too would finish first

in most of the NHL’s hockey diviions. ‘

Yet take the NHL All- Stars, train them in an atmosphere and attitudes similar to those in the Soviet Union, and keep them together for six or eight months, including fifteen to twenty games in Europe.

Under such conditions, and including the dollar incentive, the NHL All-Stars would give the Soviets a new calibre of opposition, unlike anything the Soviets have before experienced.

I believe the Soviets them- selves would concur with this.

The only other team that could tie or beat, the Soviets is the Stanley Cup champion- ship team.

Another often Unrealised point is that the Soviet club teams which paly the NHL are stacked with six or eight members from other national club teams.

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In short, when Russia and Canada play, it’s the best

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We have not reached true world hockey standards, but who is the real winner?

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It is too bad the CCCP or Czechs never played the old six-team NHL fifteen o twenty years ago, when th Montreal Canadians an Toronto Maple Leafs wer at their peak with Beliveau RiChards, Plante, and Ham: Moore.

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very rich. - an education became readily

young people. However, with the recent

very rich. Many students were shocked

for the 1984-85 academic year. He gave as justification for

programs and services.

UPEI.

afford it.

the past.

had all we can take.’

A university education once could only be attained by th

But, ,as time and society changed, the benefits of suc

available to more and mo

decreased funding to post

secondary institutions by provincial governments, a universi education may once again become accessible only to t

to learnvof President Meincke’

announcement last week that tuition fees were being increas

the increase that the Mariti

Provinces Higher Education Commission (MPHEC) reco mendation of 7 1/2 per cent increase in funding would bar prove adequate for UPEI to continue‘ to offer quali

It has become the same old story year after year here

With the provincial government’s reduction in commith to post-sccc adary education, students are expected to pick ‘ the tab for maintaining the existence of the institutio

Students have become frustrated and discouraged at I pospect of having to find the money for increased fees that they may continue their education.

With summer jobs becoming increasingly hard to acqui students are now finding it extremely difficult to come with the money needed to continue their education at UP

Facing htese prospects, many young people _will ' evaluating their options and their future.

With the Ministers of Education meeting in Charlotteto this week, let us hope that provincial governments will 0 ‘ again renew their commitment to post-secondary educati

Without this commitment, the accessibility to a universI education will once again be available only tdthbsewho '

Students must become more involved in these kinds issues. If students fail to convey their views to governm and. univerSity leaders, we will be taken advantage of. as

' It is high time that we let these people know that we Sick and tired of paying for their mistakes, and that we 11?

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