Northern Newfoundland
Labrador City - Wabush
defence. Speedy Jimmy Dawe and Geno Levesque headed our forwards, who scored goals with the best of them." Dawe has been inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Hockey Hall of Fame. Fitzgerald lists Ray Maidment, Darryl Munn and Reg Turbiee as other Lakers' goalies. In addition to Lundrigan, Fitzgerald spoke of Adrian Sullivan, Al Michelin, Howie Ellis, Tom Kent, Hedley Hicks and Eric Turbiee as other defencemen. Up front, besides himself, he spoke of Gerry Power, Ricky Boone, Bill Lake, George Hunt, Hedley Gill, Cal Dwyer and Paddy Poirier. "We got excellent coaching from Bill Kelly and Jim Wilcox, and overall top community support, especially for the opening season in which we were very, very competitive." He recalls "teams coming into Labrador got a special travel grant, $2,000 I think, from the government and there was some money when we went out. It cost something like $5,000 per trip for us to play on the island. "We didn't pay any players, but we were able to land a few jobs for players coming in. They were not paid to play hockey, but I guess the overall experiment just got too expensive. "Lundrigan and Levesque weren't with us the second season and we were not competitive. That hurt the gate at home games and it