Canisius College - Azuwur Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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3 Q teams. The real special team for us has been St. John Fisher. The first really bad loss we ever had was to them, 17-2. But we beat them 3-2 the next year, the first established team we beat. And we haven't lost to them since. Last season the scores were 8-1 and 50 in the regular season and 7-0 in the championship playoff. But the hockey club consists not only of the A team, which is the one out there garnering all of those championships. There is a B team and intramural hockey, too. These varied ingredients are what prompts Doc Dietz to insist he is more cook than coach. Whatever the budget is, we have to accomodate everyone who comes out, he asserts. We get S7700 and raise about S3000 on our own. If we only had to spend it on the 20 guys on the 'A' team I suspect we could waltz over everyone in our league. We buy five days of ice time a week, but the 'B' team takes it for two of those days. This a club. We spread the budget, the ice time and our resources around 50 guys, lt would make things easier just to work with the 20 guys, but that has not been our goal in the past and l'd be reluctant to change that now. Doc Dietz sees nothing strange about a Classics professor doubling as a hockey coach. lVly tradition places an emphasis on excellence in all things. Anyone who is dedicated to doing some- Coach of the Year: Dr. thing well is an artist, whether he's writing an essay or shooting a puck. The Greeks said that a person who makes a vase, a person who writes a play: both are artists. Socrates was a stonecutter and many Greek writers were also generals. But this is the age of specialization. We have a way of compartmentalizing where we have to choose one certain career. lt's not good. ln Plato's Republic we find the classic concept that music should be taught for the body and gymnastics for the soul. Remember now, though, I didn't just sit down one day and conclude, as a rational decision, that l would like hockey. I've played it all my life. I've been a player, coach and administrator. lt's a lot of fun. Doc Dietz did cite one intriguing parallel between his two areas of expertise, mythology and hockey: lVluch mythology revolves around the 'quest', which is just another way to say victory or championship. The championship is the Golden Fleece that every hockey team strives to capture. Dr. David Dietz has his professional life neatly balanced be- tween the Classics and hockey: with his Aenefd in one hand, his Victoriaville in the other. David B. Dietz 207

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