European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday May 22,1987 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports oilers beat flyers go 2-up Edmonton Alberta a Jari Kerri scored at 6 50 of overtime wednesday night giving the Edmon ton oilers a 3-2 Victory Over he Philadelphia flyers and a 2-0 Lead in the Stanley cup finals. The Bici of Stycn series shifts o Philadelphia forgave 3 Friday night. Kerri standing to the right of goaltender Ron hex Lall one tried a pass from Paul Coffey sending the puck into inc net for his i2lh goal of the playoffs. Wayne Gretzky started the play carrying into inc Fly ers zone and feeding Cofty in the Slot. Kerri j goal tied him with in Imanh Glenn Ander son for the most goals in this year s playoffs Anderson had tied the score with a spectacular individual Effort with 8 20 remaining in regulation Lime. Gretzky earlier had Given the oilers a 1-0 Lead on a no playoffs Power Piny goal 45 seconds into the second he flyers had gone ahead on second period goals by Derrick Smith and Brian j split the Philadelphia defense and Cal he Lall with a 12-foot wrist shot at 11 40 of the third period. He took a Cross ice pass from Randy Gregg just behind inc red line broke through two flyers stepped inside of Doug Grossman and beat Hextall to his Slick Side. played a Brilliant game As did Edmonton Grant Fuhr Fuhr made 32 saves while he Tali stopped 31 shots. It was the oilers sixth straight playoff Victory and their fifth straight overtime Triumph. The flyers had lost Only two Road playoff games this Spring but dropped twin games Here Edmonton won the opener 4-2 last sunday night. carried the prey Nihro Ghoul inc overtime. Hextall robbed Esa Tikkanen less than two minutes into the Clra period and Gretzky barely missed Conj in inc game not Long after when he hit the crossbar Wilh a 20-foot snapshot from the Slot. Unlike inc Start of game 1, wednesday night s Sec Ond game opened with a fast Pace As both learns skated up and Down the ice in non Stop action. Looking sharper than be did in inc flyers 4-2 open ing game loss pc Lall made nine saves in he lint see nil on Page 26 Mavericks Motta to leave coaching Dallas
