Leading Arrows shot down 22-9
By DAVID SHOIHET - The Montreal Star - 5/13/1975
Photo courtesy of Tom Wersderfer
Maryland Arrows’ general manager, Jack Gibson, said it all.
“There’s no way a team should be allowed to beat us by that much,” Gibson declared as the Arrows headed to their bus just outside the Forum last night.
The Arrows came here riding high in the first place on a three-game win streak (two of them on the road) and trying to do something they haven’t done since the National Lacrosse League was formed last season — beat Montreal Quebecois in the Forum.
But Maryland (8-2 record before last night) ran into a Quebecois team that executed just about everything they learned in practice perfectly.
The result? A most satisfying team victory as the Quebecois punished the Arrows to the tune of 22-9. The attendance was announced as 5,755.
“I believe the defence caused more turnovers than any team I have coached,” said Quebecois’ coach and general manager Jim Bishop.
“I don’t know how many goals we got off the press, but I know we got a lot,” he continued.
Photo courtesy of Tom Wersderfer
Winzoski stars….
Ken Winzoski, Quebecois’ No. 1 draft choice this season, produced his strongest game, offensively, collecting four goals and one assist.
“Our organized line changes really helped us get the ball down the floor more quickly tonight,” Ken pointed out. “I got two breakaway goals and an odd-man goal on this play.”
While the Quebecois were scoring at a rapid clip, goaltender Ernie Mitchell was stopping almost everything that came his way.
“I learned during the warmup that I would be starting tonight,” Mitchell said. “As far as my game was concerned I guess it was one of my better ones but I know that I’m throwing the ball a lot better than I did last season.”
Sitting next to Ernie was Dave Evans, who has started all nine of Montreal’s previous games.
“I want to make it clear that there is no first or second-string goalie on this club … we’re both equal.”
Bishop explained that he had told Mitchell at the beginning of the season that he planned on going with Evans for eight or nine games and then him for the next eight or nine.
Quebecois took a 7-2 lead after one period and then made it a runaway by increasing the margin to 17-5 after two. In so doing, they tied a club record for the most consecutive goals by registering nine from the 8:17 mark of the first to 3:22 of the second. The club just missed the team record for the most goals in one game which is 23 scored last season against Syracuse.
In addition to Winzoski’s four goals, Bruce Arena had three and two assists; John Davis scored twice and added three assists; John Sheffield had two goals and three assists; Dale MacKenzie and Gerry Pinder two goals each. Singles went to Dave Tasker, Dave Litzenberger, Bill Sheehan, Nick Delmonico, Serge Loiselle, Gord Osinchuk and Bill Nunn.
Brian Tasker (Dave’s younger brother), who leads the NLL in scoring with 66 points, scored three times while Paul Suggate and John McKenna had two apiece. Rick McKenna and Bill Goghill each had one.
