Hawks win as Fry denies Victoria - THE OREGONIAN OCTOBER 9, 1983

By RON OLSON of The Oregonian staff
Saturday night turned out to be "Fry-day" in Memorial Coliseum when Portland Winter Hawk rookie goaltender Peter Fry turned aside 45 Victoria shots as the Hawks skated to a 7-3 victory before 6,197 fans. "That was exciting," said Portland Coach Ken Hodge. Exciting because Hodge hasn't seen goaltending like the exhibition Fry put on for quite some time.
"Peter kept his feet and he was always in position to make the second save," Hodge continued. "He did get a little lucky, too." More often than not, however, it was the 16 year-old Fry, playing in only his second WHL game, who frustrated the fast-moving Cougars, especially in the third period when he stopped 17 of 18 shots to record his second win of the young season. Credit the Portland defense, plus the special teams, too. The defensemen were able to stand up the Cougar forwards at the blueline and the penalty-killing units managed to clear out the slot, giving Fry a good view at the shots.
"We wanted to work hard for Peter." said defenseman Brian Benning who contributed a goal and two assists. "It was his first time in net here in front of all these people. "A lot of teams can score goals, but defense is important. Hopefully, this is a sign of things to come."
While Fry did the job in the nets, it was again the line of Alfie Turcotte, Grant Sasser and Richard Kromm who supplied the offense when needed. Turcotte fired in three power-play goals - in a span of 1:11 late in the second period - and also added an assist for a four-point night. The Cougars then found themselves in penalty trouble and Turcotte took full advantage of the situation. His first two goals came with Portland skating with a two man advantage. On the first, he waited for Victoria defenseman Rob Kivell and goalie Darren Moren to commit themselves, skated to the slot and fired into an empty net at 17:46. His second - at 18:35 - was a rebound of a Jim Playfair shot and he netted the third 22 seconds later, backhanding a shot past Moren for a 6-2 Hawk lead after 40 minutes. "The power-play was a key for us tonight," said Turcotte. "A minute and 11 seconds was all I wanted to play tonight," he added with a smile. "I thought we did a very good job in the man-advantage and man-short situation," said Hodge. "We're going to see some of the explosiveness we had last year, but right now we're not getting the production from three lines that we should be getting. We haven't seen the Blaine Chrest line operating to its potential and we haven't seen the explosiveness of Randy Heath. That will come." The four-goal lead appeared in jeopardy in the final period when referee Jim Fisher started handing out penalties like free tickets. Early in the period, the Hawks skated the first 5:28 shorthanded - two men for 1:54 and remaining 3:34 one man down.
Cougar Russ Courtnall, Victoria's only offensive threat with three goals, had a good shot from the right point and Kivell had a golden opportunity from the slot. Fry beat Courtnall again from point-blank range and rookie Adam Morrison hit the post. "We didn't penetrate very well on the power-play," said cougar coach Dave Andrews. "Most of our shots were from the point ans we weren't getting inside." The Hawks, winners of three straight, have six days off before returning to action next Saturday in the coliseum against the defending league champion Lethbridge Broncos, who eliminated the Hawks in five games for the title last spring.
WINTER HAWK NOTES - Heath has informed Canadian Olympic team officials, his agent Alan Eagleson and his parent club the New York Rangers, that he wants to remain in Portland to play for the Hawks this season.

SCORE BY PERIODS

Victoria...........................................................................0 2 1 - 3
Portland...........................................................................1 5 1 - 7

FIRST PERIOD
1, Portland - Jones (Benning, B. Walker) 10:19
Penalties - Mackeigan (V) 6:53; Ledlin (P) 10:48; Chrest (P)16:46; Haidu (V) 19:27.

SECOND PERIOD

2, Victoria - Courtnall (Thurston, Joseph) 8:37
3, Portland - G. Walker (Jones) 10:31
4, Victoria - Courtnall (Martin) 11:27
5, Portland - Benning (Turcotte, Sasser) 12:22
6, Portland - Turcotte (Sasser, Benning) 17:46
7, Portland - Turcotte (Playfair, Sasser) 18:35
8, Portland - Turcotte (Fry) 18:57
Penalties - Heath (P) :54; Benning (P) 7:13; Martin (V)16:35; Wheeldon (V) 17:32; Kivell (V) 17:46; Kordic (P)19:16 B. Walker (P) 20:00.

THIRD PERIOD

9, Portland - G. Walker (Jones, Ledlin) 7:33.
10, Victoria - Courtnall (unassisted) 13:30.
Penalties - Kordic (P) 2:05; Playfair (P) 3:27; Benning (P) 9:29; Kromm (P)9:29 Hendry (P) 16:50
SHOTS ON GOAL - Victoria: 14 - 16 - 18 - 48. Portland 15 - 13 - 8 - 36.
GOALTENDERS - Victoria: Moren, Portland: Fry
REFEREE - Fisher
ATTENDANCE - 6,179.