European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes Friday april 81988 shorthanded goals help Bruins Triumph by the associated press Boston Steve Kasper and Cord Khi Iii scored shorthanded goals 57 seconds apart in the second period sparking the Boston brains to a 7-3 Victory Over the Buffalo sabres in the opener of their nil playoff Serin wednesday night. Kasper gave Boston a 3-1 Lead at 11 38, jul 51 seconds after Bob scene a was penalized for holding. Kluzakmadeit4-latl2 is. Boston was fourth in inc nil in Penally killing during hit regular sea son and had 14 shorthanded goals in ils to games. The second game of the Beil of seven Adams division first round lies is scheduled for thursday night in Boston. In other games wednesday flyers 4, capitals 2 Landover my. Dave Poulin snapped a 2-2 tic with a Power play goal Midway through the third period and the Philadelphia flyers Defeated Washington in a Patrick division first round playoff opener wednesday night. Caiu Dlen 4, Wahakn 3 Montreal Stephane Richer 25-foot snap shot at 9 50 of the third period broke a lie and gave Montreal a Victory Over Hartford in the opening game or their first round Stanley cup playoff series. Richer who became the first Ca Nadin to reach the 50-goal Mark during the regular season since 1979-80, balled his own rebound out of the air before putting inc puck past the outstretched state Ongoa Hender Richard Brodeur. Mike list Hartford s Marling net minder left after the second period because of a strained right . Hartford trailed 2-1 entering the third period but quickly lied the game on Dave Babych s goal 56 seconds into the final period Ron fran Cis who Sci up the first two Hartford goals put the whalers ahead less than three minutes inter when he lipped Babych s Power play shot past Mon Treal goal Lender Patrick Roy. But do in scan Chris Chelios s nil playoffs Power play goal Al 5 43 pulled the Ca Nadia seven. Randy Ladouceur convened a feed from Francis at 7 59 for the Only goal of the first period. But Shayne co Ronand Bobby Smith scored in the first five minutes of the second period to put the canadians ahead mate Linfa 6, red Wengi 1 Detroit Toronto s Gary acc Man scored two goals As the Maple Leafs gunned Detroit in the first game of the Norris division playoffs. The Maple Leafs who finished with the second worst record in the nil during the regular season out scored the division Champion red wings 4-1 in the third period. In the past two seasons Toronto ousted Chicago and is Louis Boi divisional champions in first round Stanley cup play. Bhim4,blcklumli9l St. Louis St. Louis Rookie Brett Hull scored two Power play goals and goalie Greg Millen stopped25 of Chicago s 26 shots leading the blues Over the Blackhawk in their Norris playoff opener. Millen lost his shutout when Troy Murray converted Steve Thomas entering pass on a Power play with 3 15 to go. Island pm 4, dells 3 Uniondale . Put in font inc s second goal of the game Al 6 11 of overtime gave the new York islanders 3 Victory Over new Jersey inthe opener of their Patrick division semifinal series. Oiler 7, jets 4 Edmonton Alberta Glenn Anderson scored three goals All in in third period and set up two others As Edmonton scored five straight goals in the final period to beat Winnipeg. Flames 9, Kings 1 Calgary a Berta Joel Olio and Hakan Loob each scored two goals and Gary Suter set up three As Calgary blasted los Angeles in thei smythe division . Mavericks top suns halt skid by the associated Prev Dallas Rolando Blackman scored a season High 32 Points and the Dallas Mavericks broke a four game los ing Streak wednesday nigh with a 119 93 Aba Victory Over the Phoenix suns. Dallas improved its Lead in the race for second place in inc Western Confer ence handing to a half game Over Idle Denver. The Mavericks matted the game .004 ahead of the nuggets for the runner up spot in the conference behind the los Angeles Lake re. The Suni. Led by Eddie Johnson s 20 Points failed to Gam ground on san an Tonio in the race for the eighth and final Western conference playoff berth. Phoe Nix started the night 3vi games behind the spurs. In other games wednesday night bulb ji9, Bucaj 110 Milwaukee Michael Jordan scored 37 Points and Chicago used a 13-0 spurt in the second half to beat Mil Waukee and move four games ahead of the Bucks for third place in the Aba Central division. Dave Conine added in Points and John Paxson 14 for the built who Are 3 0 this season Al the Milwaukee Arena. Ricky Pierce scored 19 Points Sidney Moncrief 18 and John Lucas 17 for Mil Waukee. The bulls trailed 84-77 with 2 51 of a in the third period before the 13-Poinlrun opened a 90-84 Lead a Seattle opened an in Point halftime Lead and coasted to a Victory Over Colden stale. Trail Tanra 111, clippers 103 los Angeles Clyde Dresler scored 24 Points and Kevin Duckworth returned from a sprained ankle to score 11 of his 22 Points in the fourth Quarter As Portland beat los Angeles for the 13th consecutive Lime. Kin it us spare 109 Sacramento Calif. Harold Pressly scored a career High 29 Points Lead ing Sacramento Over san Antonio. 88 baseball history for Stephensons Bojoh Kreiser new York a for players an fans inc 1938 baseball Mason is just be ginning. For Henry and Holly Stephcn son it s history. The Stephensons Are the architects of the american and National league schedules. Have been since 1982. We re already looking toward 1989, after a while you lend to think of the current year As last year and the next year As this year Henry said. Working Wilh a personal computer a series of formulas and program they de signed themselves and the scheduling rules contained in baseball s labor agreement the Sleph Ansons schedule the 2,106 regu Lar season games played each year. So far they be managed to make Jure no team is scheduled 10 be in two differ ent places Al the same time what most people forget is that a Home game for one team is a Road game far  said hotly a systems analyst who once worked for the new Yor City planning commission. It sounds like such a simple thing but it s some thing most people  armed with the necessary data the couple who work from their san Len is land Home overlooking new York har Bor then go to work. We design the schedule in Sci cents. Then link the segments together to form the Complete package Henry said. Rewrote software that generates a schedule and checks it for mistakes. The compute knows the rules and a Aichs any  the biggest difference in scheduling involves he size of the two leagues. The National league with 12 teams bal ances much More easily than the 14 Leam american league in which one East division dub serves As a swing team spending the last few weeks of the season playing the Al West. This year the swing learn was change from Cleveland to Milwaukee meaning that the Brewers will finish their Intra division play by labor Day. After the first draft comes the hard pan dealing with teams who have individual requests that must be met. Sometimes the requests Are Predicta ble Henry Jaid. For example the bos ton red sox always want to be Home on patriots Day. Because of the travel rules and the 11 . Starting Lime we had to juggle things to keep