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The General Manager and AGM of the Canucks, Ryan Johnson joined Matt and Blake for Presidents Week. Ryan talked about his promotion and how it hasn't actually changed his day-to-day responsibilites. Ryan talked about who needs to jump up and become a bigger part of the Vancouver Canucks organization.  The President of the Vancouver Warriors, Dan Richardson, joined Matt and Blake for Presidents Week. Dan told the story of how he came to be in the position he is now. It involves the Canucks' brain-trust and a Salmonbellies super-fan. Great stuff. Dan talked about the overall landscape of the league, down to what players make and how they go about recruiting them. Dan gave his thoughts on marketing strategies and how they will continue to draw in new fans, alongside the TSN numbers when their games are aired.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The General Manager and AGM of the Canucks, Ryan Johnson joined Matt and Blake for Presidents Week. Ryan talked about his promotion and how it hasn't actually changed his day-to-day responsibilites. Ryan talked about who needs to jump up and become a bigger part of the Vancouver Canucks organization.  The President of the Vancouver Warriors, Dan Richardson, joined Matt and Blake for Presidents Week. Dan told the story of how he came to be in the position he is now. It involves the Canucks' brain-trust and a Salmonbellies super-fan. Great stuff. Dan talked about the overall landscape of the league, down to what players make and how they go about recruiting them. Dan gave his thoughts on marketing strategies and how they will continue to draw in new fans, alongside the TSN numbers when their games are aired.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A walk and a talk down history lane with 'The Royal City' on our minds. We chose multiple locations to bring you something new and unique about one of Canada's most significant places, and to highlight one of hockeys greatest players Phil Housley. We stood upon a parkade adjacent to the Fraser River and hung out by the cleanest skate park in existence to discuss a little about everything.This episode was sponsored by...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PUY64hgEvY&t=82s

Sam Seward - Season 2Sam is from the Squamish Nation and has been involved with lacrosse for almost 60 years as a player, Coach and Manager. As a player he got his start as in the North Shore Minor Association and played through Junior B with them. He played Junior A with the Salmonbellies, and was brought up to play with the North Shore Indians Senior B Club. He played in the first World Box event in 1980 for the Can-Am Native team. In 1985 he won the Presidents Cup with the North Shore Senior B team.He transitioned in to coaching both Box and Field versions of the game and on numerous occasions he was named West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association Coach of the Year. In 2006 the Aboriginal Sports Circle named him National Aboriginal Coach of the Year. He has been Head Coach of both box and field teams in the North American Indigenous Games. Sam Seward is one of the great contributors to the game from the Squamish Nation.

This week, Jake Elliott talks lacrosse with Salmonbellies Rory McDade, Logan Schuss, and Mitch Jones.

Dave Durante - Colourful nicknames have followed Dave Durante throughout his two decade lacrosse career: Dave the Magnificent, Dandy Dave and Dave the Dude; all adorned him as wellas one of his tailored silk suits, but sobriquets notwithstanding, he has always been awinner. Few, if any, players can boast victories in lacrosse’s four major championships.He took part in 9 Mann Cup series, winning the Canadian title 5 times. He was amember of the 1971 Richmond Roadrunners that upset favoured Peterborough for theMinto Cup junior title. In 1975, he toiled for the National Lacrosse League Quebec Caribous that captured the professional championship. And he was a member of the Canadian rep team that won the World Field Lacrosse title in Manchester, England, in 1978. Lacrosse has long been Durante’s passion and pastime, but this was not always the case. When Durante was a youngster, he was content to restrict his lacrosse activities to watching father Joe Durante and Uncle John Cervi play senior ball...mind you, Durante did play a little catch in his backyard, but baseball, soccer, hockey and high school football quenched his athletic thirst. Listing his sports reveals why he had little time for organized lacrosse. At Notre Dame High School, he was quarterback and safety for the first Jugglers team to win the Shrine Bowl. As a shortstop, he caught the eye of major league scouts from the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals.When his hopes for a college baseball scholarship in the U.S. did not materialize, he enrolled at the University of B.C. where he played hockey and soccer while working towards a Bachelor degree in Physical Education. Impressed with his hockey prowess, the Detroit Red Wings offered him a spot in its farm system; and his skills as a midfielder earned him an offer to join a Fourth Division soccer club in England. He declined the hockey and soccer overtures and decided to take his backyard lacrosse intoa box. At the age of 18, Durante tried out for the Vancouver Junior B squad and was aninstant success, racking up 22 goals and 20 assists in 18 games. He moved to the Richmond Junior A team the following year, gathering 30 goals and 23 assists on the way to the 1971 Minto Cup title. Richmond lost the national championship thefollowing season but his 36 goals and 31 assists were enough to impress the Senior teams. The WLA overage junior draft was introduced in 1973 and Coquitlam, with firstpick, selected him. Despite a painful ankle injury that often cut his speed in half, Durante picked up 26 goals and 23 assists and was named the WLA Rookie-of-the-Year.After capturing the WLA scoring title in 1974, he joined the Quebec entry in the National Lacrosse League, earning 242 points in 60 league and playoff games. It was back to Coquitlam in 1976 for a 4-year stint until he was traded to the Salmonbellies prior to the 1980 season. He remained there for the next 12 seasons before retiring in 1991 at the age of 39.“I had a passion for the game,” he once told a reporter. “I am proud of what I accomplished statistic-wise, but more than that, I was a team player, that’s what I was all about.” He has scored 351 WLA playoff points, a league record. He once held the Mann Cup assistrecord, later broken by ex-teammate Geordie Dean, but he is still the fourth highestMann Cup point getter with 105. His league, playoff and Mann Cup points total 1,509, is third behind only Wayne Goss and Paul Parnell on the all-time WLA scoring list. His pro Quebec stats of 242 raised his career point total to 1,751. He was named the Mike Kelly Award winner (Mann Cup MVP) in 1976, won the Maitland Trophy for sportsmanship in 1974 and was placed on the WLA All--Star Team 8 times. Of course, as previously mentioned, he took the Rookie-of-the-Year honours in 1973. He was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1997.

William K.C. "Casey" Cook was born in The Hague, Holland in 1945 and his family moved to Burnaby, BC in 1950.He graduated from Burnaby Central high school and played his junior lacrosse inCoquitlam, played up for the senior Adanacs in 1966 and 1967, and played 14 games ofSenior for Coquitlam. In 1969 he joined the New Westminster Blues of the Inter-City amateur league and also played for the Salmonbellies. In the same year he joined the staff of the Vancouver Parks Board, where he would stay as an administrator for the next 34 years. Before joining the Salmonbellies’ organization, he was with the Burnaby Cablevision lacrosse team for 6 years. Casey Cook is an organizational bungy jumper - when a situation needs addressing, confront it boldly and leap feet first into a solution. It’s not that he’s a compulsive overachiever but, rather, an individual who loves a challenge. Born May 11, 1945, in The Hague, Netherlands, little Cornelis arrived in Canada shortly before his fifth birthday with his parents and four siblings. The family settled down in South Burnaby where young Cook picked up his “Casey” nickname and a lifelong love for the game of lacrosse. After moving through the South Burnaby minor box lacrosse system, Casey joined the Coquitlam Junior A team for the 1966 and 1967 seasons, accumulating 42 points in 32 games. Lacrosse in B.C. tasted professional status in 1968, but not wishing to endure lengthy road trips after completing a 4-year scholarship at the University of Michigan, Casey opted to turn senior with the Coquitlam amateur team - the Adanacs, who were now playing out of Portland, Oregon.“I don’t really recall what I did,” said Cook when asked about his rookie season. “It’snot that important.” But what he accomplished was to take the 1968 scoring title. The following season, he transferred to the New Westminster Blues and was instrumental inleading them to a Mann Cup final. In all, Cook picked up 145 points in 62 senior games.By now, however, his interests turned to coaching youngsters. In addition to his jobwith the City of Vancouver Recreational Department, Casey coached minor teams inSouth Burnaby from 1968 to 1973 and held down the association presidency the lattertwo years. In 1974, Casey turned his full attention to coaching the Burnaby Cablevision Junior B team, taking the club to four national finals and to the 1977 Canada Games.Following the 1979 season, he left Burnaby and began his lengthy relationship with theNew Westminster Salmonbellies. “Lloyd Solomon telephoned me and asked if I would be the ‘bellies’ GM,” he recalled. “I jumped at the challenge.” The ‘bellies went to the Mann Cup finals in 1980, but began the following season with a poor 3 and 8 record. Casey assumed the coaching duties, halted the losing woes and directed the team to the Canadian title. With the exceptions of 1984 and 1989 when he co-coached the club with John Hannah, Casey placed all of his efforts into the management end of team business. In 1985, Casey took over the role of Salmonbellies president, a position he held until 2000 when growing outside commitments forced him to step down; however, he remained with the team as vice-president. What were his teams’ records over the 20 years? 4 Mann Cups in 11 trips to the Canadian finals. Somehow, during the same period of time, the durable Dutchman managed to squeeze in time to sit on the WLA Board of Governors for 15 years, three of them as Chair; act as Treasurer for theCanadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame; serve a 5-year stint with the CLA box sector, the lasttwo as Chair; and serve on several BCLA committees. Obviously, people took notice.Casey won the WLA Coach of the Year honours in 1984 and 1989 and Executive of theYear in 1989 and 1992. The BCLA named him Coach of the Year in 1978, 1981 and 1989.In 1990, the CLA presented him with its Award of Distinction.

Wayne and Ed GossWayne Goss:Wayne excelled at all aspects of lacrosse from goal scoring and play making topenalty killing and face-offs. Between 1968 and 1981, Goss scored 812 goals, added1,040 assists, and amassed 1,852 points in 465 games. He held 41 WLA scoring and faceoff records and shared 4 others. Goss was named Rookie of the Year in 1968, league MVP 4 times (1969-71, 1975) and playoff MVP 3 times (1968-69, 1976). He was named to11 all-star teams and won 5 Mann Cup championships (1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1981)with the Salmonbellies. He set a WLA and Canadian record in the 1981 Mann Cup series with an assist during the final seconds to amass a 98-point total and was named the series’ MVP. He played in the 1968 and 1969 National Lacrosse League championships, winning in 1968 over the Detroit Olympics. Goss also played for Canada in the 1974 world field lacrosse championships in Australia. He retired in 1981 after 14 seasons with the Salmonbellies. In 1983, his sweater was retired on “Wayne Goss Night” at Queen’s Park Arena. Goss was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1986 and the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.Ed Goss:Wayne Goss’s older brother; Ed played hockey, soccer and basketball, but excelled atlacrosse. He played minor in New Westminster where his teams were perennial champs. Goss’ Jr. A ‘bellies team were Minto finalists 3 consecutive years (1966-68). In '64 reg. season Jr. games, Ed scored 141 goals & 133 assists for 274 points. He was Jr. A Rookie of the Year and 1st Team All- Star in 1966, won the Bill Dickinson Trophy as league top scorer in ‘67 and held the record for most goals in a game (11). He played 3 pro seasons with New Westminster in ‘68-’69 and Maryland in ‘75, winning 2 WorldPro Championships with the ‘bellies. Goss played Sr. A for the ‘bellies over 6 seasons from‘69-’77. In 135 Sr. A and pro reg. season games, he netted 163 goals & 222 assists for 385 points, and in 53 playoff games, added 53 goals and 52 assists. His ‘bellies teams went to 3 straight Mann Cups, winning two in ‘70 & ’72.

Al Lewthwaite was a giant on the lacrosse floor in stature, strength and talent. But like Achilles of mythical antiquity, Big Al Lewthwaite had his weakness: a battered knee that hobbled his career. Born in New Westminster on October 15, 1950, Lewthwaite developed his box lacrosse skills in the Royal City’s Sapperton district, but by age 15 he was considered too big to continue playing at the Juvenile level. Instead, he lined up with the New Westminster Junior B team that captured the 1966 Canadian championship in Port Arthur. The following year, Lewthwaite joined the Junior A Salmonbellies, which made unsuccessful challenges for the 1967 and 1968 Minto Cups. Meanwhile, he found the Senior ‘bellies coveting his talents. In his first Senior contest in 1967 (he was not yet 17 years old) he scored two goals. After the 1968 Minto Cup series, he played a pivotal role in the ‘bellies’ National Lacrosse Association professional championship victory over Detroit. By 1969, Lewthwaite was 6’3”, 230-lbs, fleet of foot, a deadly shooter, a natural play maker and a rib-crunching checker. At the age of 18, he became a permanent member of the Senior Salmonbellies, registering 87 points in his first 27 games. Between 1970 and 1974, Lewthwaite and his teammates captured 3 Mann Cups in 4 trips to the Canadian championships. Nicknamed “Lurch” by his teammates after the character on TV’s Addams Family, Lewthwaite preferred floor time to the penalty box, but due to his imposing size, he often found himself in the role of team policeman. Some of his confrontations with Vancouver’s Ward Sanderson and Coquitlam’s Kevin Parsons are fondly remembered by advocates of the lacrosse school of hard knocks. In 1975, the upstart pro National Lacrosse League team in Boston drafted Lewthwaite in the first round, but traded him to the long Island Tomahawks where he accumulated 140 points in 47 games; however, he also seriously injured his knee. Famed New York sports medicine specialist Dr. Morris Cowen rebuilt his leftknee, but the criss-crossing scars were mute evidence of the obvious: at the age of 25,Lewthwaite’s playing career was virtually at an end. He limped through just 27 more games over the next three years before retiring. In 269 games with the Salmonbellies and Long Island, he scored 308 goals and 443 assists for 751 points. After one season as co-coach of a Senior B team, he took over the coaching reins for the Salmonbellies in 1978. Over the next 21 years, Lewthwaite held similar positions with Coquitlam, Richmond, Burnaby and Maple Ridge.

Paul Parnell was born March 28, 1938, in Peterborough, Ontario.He began playing lacrosse in Peterborough and played 2 seasons of Senior forPeterborough in 1958 & 59. In 1960 he joined the Victoria Shamrocks for 1 season.In 1961 he joined the Salmonbellies and won 5 Mann Cups. He was selected to theICLL/WLA all-star team in 14 of his 15 years with New Westminster, and retired in1975 holding 23 WLA records and 3 Mann Cup records.No one in Canadian senior box lacrosse history has played more games than PaulParnell: 587 in the West and another 84 in his hometown of Peterborough. Only John Davis, another Peterborough product, has accumulated more points, 2,053, to Parnell’s1,918.

BC Sports Hall of Fame member Paul Parnell joins the Sport Market to discuss the Salmonbellies being honoured by the Hall, and the state of the game of Lacrosse in BC and Canada.