Steve Prusky, Glen Cappellani, Jamie Doyle win top awards on Chapleau Junior 'B' Huskies in 1973-74 hockey season

Steve, Glen, Jamie

Steve Prusky, Glen Cappellani and Jamie Doyle represented the fine defence, excellent goaltending and high scoring respectively of the 1973-74 Chapleau Junior 'B' Huskies, according to coverage  of the team's annual awards banquet.

Steve won the Pat Bamford Trophy as best defenceman, which was presented to him by Pat,  while Glen was awarded the Denis Foran Trophy as rookie of the year and the J.M. Shoup Memorial Trophy as most valuable player in the playoffs as chosen by the players.

Jamie, the team captain, received the Demers Trophy for leading scorer, with his 36 goals and 44 assists, as well as the Smith and Chapple Trophy as most valuable player in regular season play.

Other awards went to Ron Larcher, who won the Molson Trophy for outstanding accomplishments on ice: Robert Doyle, the Pierre Ste. Marie Trophy for being the most gentlemanly player; Charlie Raitakari, the Denis Martel Trophy as most valuable player on the Midgets and to George Card a trophy awarded by the fans to the individual whose play was outstanding beyond what was expected.

Steve, Mrs. Sweeney

As an aside, at a league awards night presentation in Wawa, Steve Prusky was presented the Mae Sweeney Trophy by Mrs. Sweeney as the best defenceman in the International Junior 'B' Hockey League. Steve continued his hockey career in the United States before returning home to join the Chapleau Intermediate 'A' Huskies of the Northland Intermediate Hockey League.


Jamie and Glen went on to play for the Intermediate 'A' Huskies too.

A plaque was presented to Bill 'Esher' Ritchie for his excellent work as trainer.

The annual awards night and dance with Dr. Frank Broomhead as master of ceremonies was held with a packed house at the Moose Hall. Special guests included Cochrane MP Ralph Stewart and Mrs. Stewart, Barry McKenzie, former member of Canada's national team and the Detroit Redwings, currently general manager of the Sudbury Wolves, Joe Drago managing director of operations of the Sudbury Wolves and Ray Bradley of Molson's.

Retiring after six years as president of the Chapleau Huskies Junior B Hockey club, Thomas B. Welch gave his congratulations to all the fine teams who had played during the years, the vast majority of them having come up through the minor hockey ranks. He also paid tribute to general manager Ted Tokarchuk, manager Earle Freeborn and coach George Swanson.

Tom, who founded the team, which played in the International Junior 'B' Hockey League,  with Keith 'Buddy' Swanson and Lorne Riley, also tossed a big bouquet to the fans for their support, according to Maggie Costello's report in the Sault Star.

Ralph Stewart commented on the tremendous support for the team as evidenced by the turnout of supporters at the banquet. He paid tribute to the mothers of the players for their interest and to the fathers who gave so much time to coaching and other offices. 

Mr. Stewart also objected to the amount of fighting that was in hockey games and stressed the need for good clean sport.

Lorne Hoppenreys who was soon to leave Chapleau but had been very active in hockey said he would miss the players and community. Ray Bradley long a familiar figure on the Chapleau sports scene was making his final appearance as he had been transferred to another district. As reeve I brought greetings on behalf of the municipality.

Pat Bamford, who was a member of the team executive and manager of the Midgets was responsible for the award presentation part of the evening, while Dr. Broomhead kept the evening's events. moving along. In his comments Dr. Broomhead gave special thanks to the township council for extensive improvements to the Chapleau Memorial Community Arena.  Not only had improvements been undertaken, but Earle Freeborn had accepted the position as part-time manager.  My email is mj.morris@live.ca