A piece of the Penticton Vees past is excited to help the future.

Those who watched the Vees during the 1977/78 season may remember Ron Vincent. In his lone season as a Vee, Vincent set a BCJHL points record when he tallied 74 goals, 102 assists for 176 points.

Vincent, a native of Victoria who resides in Madison, Wisc., recalls playing for the dominant team that also had Cary Eades, Ross Fitzpatrick and Kevin Maxwell as its leading scorers. There's another thing Vincent remembers of that season — it's the lone year a playoff wasn't completed.

"We were playing Nanaimo and there was a huge brawl in the pre-game and our coach and GM Terry Martin, he pulled team off the ice," recalled Vincent. "He said it was rediculous. Refused to play. The league awarded the Clippers the playoff championshp without us playing the remaining games."

Vincent's career made a pit stop in the Okanagan through a trade with Bellingham that would nearly put the Eric Lindros for Peter Forsberg deal to shame.

The year before, Vincent played 29 games with the Portland Winter Hawks in the Western Canada Hockey League before being sent to the Bellingham Blazers since he wouldn't sign a card. A friendship with Dave Smith of the Vees helped him land in Penticton.

"I don't know them all, but I can tell you who one of them was. It was Glenn Anderson," said Vincent, who enjoyed a four-year career with the University of Wisconsin Badgers. "I ran into Glenn in New York a few years ago. Sitting in a bar having a couple beers. I told him the story and he hung his head and he just said 'I had never been traded before.' I said do you remember that? he goes 'Yeah of course I do.'"

Vincent enjoyed that season because the competition was good and he was able to take classes at Okanagan College because of the easy travel schedule.

Now's he's enjoying being part of the Vees majority ownership which has 85 per cent stake.

A concern of his that he feels the public has is that they are absentee owners. He wants to see more outreach into the community.

"I want to try and build the partnership with Global Spectrum and the Vees closer," he said. "From talking to several different people they felt there was this disconnection. Global was looked at as a third party. They are doing their best efforts to help market the Vees."

Vincent said he doesn't have specifics on what they would try and do as far as that game promotion, but an idea he said is having discount tickets for different groups.

"Whatever it takes to get people out," said Vincent, who wants to do help attract more fans.