European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gretzky is named cup map Alberta up Gretzky etched his name on the Conn smythe trophy thursday night As the most valuable player in the Stanley cup playoffs but said the award should be shared with teammate Paul from my i wish i could put Pauls name beside mine on the Hes an important part of my As i told it could have been either him or Gretzky it was probably the toughest vote in the history of the Gretzky set a scoring Milestone in the playoffs against the Philadelphia flyers with 47 Points 17 goals and 30 Topping his previous record of 12 goals and 26 assists set in the 1983 the Edmonton Center has 100 Stanley cup playoff one Short of the Al time High held by Denis oilers coach Glen Sather said he found it difficult to single out any one player As deserving the if i say Wayne was the then in slighting Grant oilers goalie and Paul i would have split the Conn smythe three i think we had four or five Guys who played great All through the Sather losing the Conn smythe to a Man of Waynes stature is not said he is the greatest player in the world and deserved the award was voted by a panel of sportswriters after the fifth and clinching game of the Besto seven league championship series the oilers 83 trouncing of the Coffey finished the playoffs with 37 Points 12 goals and 25 Fuhr pos Ted 15 victories against three losses in Post june 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 file photo Paul Coffey losing to Gretzky int degrading season he faced 519 shots and Al Lowed 55 coffees 12 goals Are a cup playoff re Cord for goals by a breaking a record held by Bobby Orr 1974 and Brad Park furs Victory thursday tied him with new York islander Billy Smith for most victories in a playoff season 1980 and coach Mike Keenan of the flyers saluted the oilers in the essence of the club was magnified by their Best play oilers from Page 21 de Hospodar Gretzky skated Down the left Side and fed who at first  find the then batted it Over a sprawling Kerri and Gretzky combined on a spectacular passing play that resulted in Gretzky goal at Coffey skated deep into the flyers passed from behind the net to he was tied up but got off a backhand pass to who put in a Short wrist earlier in the Kerri missed a Chance to establish a goal scoring record when he fired wide on a breakaway after a feed from and Gretzky hit the goal Post with a snapshot seconds before his Philadelphia Brian Propp had a snapshot by Howe deflect off his skate and past Fuhr at of the third period during a Power but Messier got that Back with his second unassisted goal of the night at stealing a pass by Marsh and beat ing Froese on a Rich Sutter collected his second goal of the night at of the third period on a 25foot risks titanic or sinks 43 tigers beat As by the associated press an encore was no Small order for Chi Cagos Carlton but the titanic Home run he deposited onto the Loftfield roof at venerable Comiskey Park was no Small risks his 11th of the season and third in two came in the fourth inning off Kansas cites Charlie Lei Brandt following a single by Ron it brought the White sox Back from a 32 deficit in a 43 Victory Over the the win left Tom just seven wins Short of the coveted 300 while risks Homer was sure to grab the his work behind the plate helped Seaver Over the rough i was ragged All the 40year old right hander if i pitch seven innings and give up three earned runs or less every time i go out ill be very certainly those were not my goals 10 years but they Are Seaver worked giving up eight hits and two walks with one strike in other Al action tigers As 2 Detroit Larry Herndon of de troit let his Bat do the talking he hit a tie breaking Home run in the sixth inning to Back the pitching of Walt Terrell and Willie Hernandez and then shrugged it off by id just really prefer not to talk about Herndon hit the first pitch into the lower Brightfield seats for his fourth chasing Tim gave up All seven hits and both Oakland walking one and strik ing out four in seven Hernandez earned his Lith Birtsas hit Kirk Gibson in the jaw in the third splitting the Detroit Outfield ers lower lip in two it took 17 stitches to close the Alfredo Griffin accounted for the Oak land scoring with a two run orioles mariners 2 Baltimore the Baltimore Ori Oles were taking them bases that is one at time until Eddie Murray fifth inning double restored some normalcy to a bizarre it was just terrible Fritz Connally said of his hesitant trip around the bases which required three hits amen can league to score him from second it was a Tough 180 Seattle reliever Salome walked Connally to open the inning with the score tied Connally moved to Sec Ond on but then needed three Outfield singles to he held up As balls hit by Floyd Rayford and acc Lacy both of whom had three hits and Jim Dwyer All appeared watchable before falling dwyers hit loaded the bases and finished Roy Thomas relieved and walked Cal Ripken to Force in a Mur Ray then doubled off de Vanda Berg to make it and two More runs scored on a single by Fred Lynn and a sacrifice Fly by Larry Yankees Angels 1 new York the new York Yan with Joe Cowley and Dave Riglietti concocting a proved again they Are fond of Home the Yan Kees won their 10th straight Home game and ninth since Billy Martin replaced Yogi Berra As worked 7 Leav ing after Rookie Jack Howell hit his first major league Righetti worked the final 1 striking out four to gain his 10th Dan called up earlier in the hit a fifth inning Lead off Homer in his second major league giving the Yankees a 20 the Yankees scored a four thinning run when Willie Randolph doubled with one went to third on a wild pitch and came Home on an infield hit by Don mat red sox twins 7 Boston it was the same old Story for three blown leads and an other the twins eighth reliever Ron hit two batters to set the stage for Jim rices run scoring single with one out in the 11 the first Glenn Hoffman was then Wade who had a double and triple sacrificed Hoffman to Sec after Dwight Evans was hit by a Rice singled for his third game win Ning rib of the Gooden pitches mets to Victory Over giants by the associated press the Way he has been pitching Dwight Gooden should Call candlestick Park striking out 14 batters and allowing six hits in an overpowering Gooden made another impressive showing in candlestick pitching the new York mets to a 21 Victory Over the slumping i really enjoy pitching Gooden he against the giants last sea Gooden threw a five hit shutout and struck out 12 at he also pitched two scoreless innings in the 1984 Allstar game in the Windy yielding one hit and notching three while the mets got their Road trip off to a Good Start with two victories in san the giants lost for the eighth time in the last 10 Hes a Fine no question about giants manager Jim Davenport said of but weve got Guys who Are supposed to be major league and National league they  even put the Ball in were just not hitting the who snapped a personal two game losing lost his shutout when Alex Trevino hit his first Home run of the year in the seventh the mets right hander then retired the last nine including the final three on George Foster broke a scoreless tie in the fifth with his seventh the mets added a run in the sixth As Lead off hitter cookie Wilson reached on an error by giants second baseman Manny Trillo and later scored on a two out single Gary in other no action padres expos 4 san Diego carmelo Martinez drove in four runs with a pair of Home runs and unbeaten Andy Hawkins became the major leagues first 10game Winner As san Diego downed with the help of Martinez the padres had a 41 Lead after six after the expos pulled within 43 in the top of the san Diego scored the eventual winning run in the Bottom of the inning when Steve Garvey and Terry Ken Nedy both singled and third baseman Washington booted Martinez Herm Winningham homered for the expos in the ninth off reliever Luis Del Craig Lefferts came on to get the final out for his first save of the cardinals braves 0 Atlanta Jack Clark hit his ninth Homer and Joaquin Andujar claimed his ninth Victory in a combined five hit shut out with Bill Campbell As Louis beat allowed five walked one and struck out three before leaving after five innings when his right shoulder it was and jars fifth Victory in a Row since losing to san Francisco May 5 and his seventh straight Over the Campbell held the braves witless and Al Lowed one walk Over the final four innings for his second Clarks Solo Homer came on an 01 pitch from reliever Jeff Dedmon in the giving the cardinals a Phillies dodgers 1 los Angeles John Denny earned his first Victory in seven years Over los scattering eight hits in pitch ing Philadelphia Over the the who Lead the no in or committed three giving them 62 for the season and providing the Phil lies with two unearned the 1983 no by Young award snapped a personal four game losing Streak As he out pitched Fer Nando the Victory was his second in nine career decisions against los Angeles and his first against the dodgers since july when he was pitching for the Phillies broke a 11 tie in the third when Jeff Stone reached on a fielders stole took third on Catcher Mike Scioscia throwing error and came Home when Center fielder Ken Landreaux bobbled the Ball for another