European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes monday april 3.1989 blues top Leafs on empty net g of i by the associated press St. Louis Gino Cavallini scored into an empty net with 50 seconds remaining in overtime to give the is. Louis blues a  Victory Over the Toronto Maple Leafs saturday night. Cavallini scored his 20th goal or the season sending an 85-foot shot rum Center ice into the empty net 24 seconds after the Maple Leafs desperate Tor a Victory in the race for the fourth playoff spot in the Norris division pulled goaltender Allan Bester the Maple Leafs trailed Chicago by two Points entering sunday s season ending game with the Black Hawks at Chicago stadium. A Toronto Victory would give each team 64 Points but the Leafs would get the final playoff spot because they have More victories. Burcl Hull s second goal of the game at 12 40 of the second period had tied the score for is Louis which won its second straight overtime game. Hull s 41st goal came after Toronto scored three second period goals on three shots in a 3 24 Span Totake a  ipod. Hull took a drop pass from Bernie Fiderko deep in the right Circle and beat Bester to the far Side from about 20 feet. ,.,Hull opened the scoring at i3li8 of the first period and set up the other St. Louis goal when Tony Mckig  deflected his shot past Besler during a Power play fora  Lead at 6 01 of Floc second period. Todd Gill started Toronto s comeback at 7 59 with his 11 the goal a 35-foot slap shot off a drop pass from Rad Marsh that easily beat Greg Miller Marsh tied the game with his first goal of the seasonal 10 46 after Fergus won a Falcoff and got the draw Back to the left Point and Fergus put the Leafs ahead 37 seconds later on a 33-foot screened shot from height Point. .-.-. In other games saturday whalers 6, blackly was 1 Hartford Conn. Grant Jennings and Dave Tippet scored in a 2 16 Span in the first period and Syvain Turgon added two Power play goals As Han no Roundup Ford Defeated Chicago. The Victory kept Hartford two Points behind Buffalo in the race for third place in the Adams division and moved them to .500 for the season for the first Lime since nov. 3, when they were 0. Both teams hive one game remaining. Chicago which missed a Chance to lock up the final playoff berth in the Norm division fell to 2 since March 4. Penguins 5, ringers 2 Pittsburgh Kevin Stevens scored two goals to help Pittsburgh Clinch second place in the Patrick division with a Victory Over new York in Phil Esposi to s return As rangers coach. The penguins who have made the Stanley play offs for the first time since 1982 and finished second for the first time since 978-79, will Host the opening game of their Patrick division semifinal series wednesday night. Esposito the rangers general manager took Over As coach when he fired Michel Bergeron earlier saturday. The rangers were 3-10-0 in Bergeron s last 13 games. Canadians 7, flyers 2 Montreal def Anseman Craig Lui jiving s goal with 6 58 to play gave Montreal a tic with Phila  trying desperately to beat Calgary in the race for first place in the Overall nil standings pulled goal Lender Patrick Roy with a minute left in overtime but could not score. The tie gave Calgary the president s trophy and a $200,000 learn Bonus for the Best regular season re Cord. Montreal and Calgary each have-53 victories and 115 Points but the flames won due to a belter goal differential. Calgary was to finish its season sunday a Home against Edmonton. Ludwig tied the game at 3 02 when hit broke for the net and deflected Rookie Brent Gilchrist s shot past flyers goaltender Ron Htit All for his third goal of the season. Sabres 4, islanders 3 un10ndale, . Grant Ledyard s unassisted goal with lifted Buffalo Over the new York islanders. The win kept inc sabres twp Points ahead of Hart Ford in the race for third place in the Adams division. Capitals i devils 4 Landover my. Kelly Miller snapped a 44 tie with two third period goals As Washington won for the first Lime since clinching first place in the Patrick Divi Sion.  capitals who had Tost two straight after an eight game winning Streak that secured their first Divi Sion Crown went ahead to slay with 13 48 to play when Miller shoved a shot that new Jersey goalie Sean Duroc stopped momentarily before letting it slip Over the goal line. Miller added a Power play goal with 6 18remaining. Dave Christian added two goals for Washington Bruins 5, nordic  4 Quebec Rob Cimetta scored his first two nil goals As Boston downed Quebec handing the Nordi ques a team record 45th loss. V Kings 6, canucks 4 Inglewood Calif Bernie Nich Ohhad a hat trick to reach the 70-goal plateau and Wayne arc Luzky collected three assists for a career total of 1,200 As los Angeles came from behind to defeat Vancouver. Nicholls who also notched his 300th career goal scored two Power ploy goals and then added a Shon hander into an empty net with 1s seconds left to be come the fifth player in nil history to score 70 or More goals in a season. Or Tiky has had three seasons of 70 or More goals East can play hockey St. Paul Minn. A de Kraycir wanted badly to play the Minnesota go v Phars in the Mcaa hockey Fina. He got them and he got them Good. .-.,i knew it would be a great game said Kraycir whose goal 4 16 into Over time lifted Harvard to its first Mcaa make the Victory that touch Sweet or after scoring twice in thursday s  semifinal Victory Over Michigan state Kraycir said he was rooting for Minnesota to reach the final. The goobers obliged by.,. Beating Maine. Friday night. We wanted to show everybody our Here that Eastern schools can Piny hockey too he.  Harvard is just As. Good a hockey school As Minnesota  or anybody  this year Harvard is the Best. The Crimson 31-, making their 14th tournament appearance and seventh of the 1980s, became Only the third Eastern teaming 17 years to win the championship. Bos ton University won in 1978,  polytechnic Institute in 1985. / out West you hear the criticism said Harvard goalie chuckle Hughes who made 33 saves. Bobby Reynolds of Michigan state said thank god we re not playing Minnesota in inc semifinals. Lake Superior stale though they were going to beat us to a pulp in the Quanor finals. R nobody likes to be called a loser. No body likes to be told they re not Good we May not be the biggest team but you be got to catch us to fill  Minnesota 34-11, making its 16th trip to the tournament and cig in in the 80s,won its third and last title in 1979. The gophers lost even though the Neutral site of this year s event was the  civic Center just across the Mississippi rive from inc University s Campus. It would be been very Nice to see this place erupt Minnesota s Jon Anderson said if we d scored Fin overtime the roof Mignol pc blown  in the overtime Brian Mccormack s shot was stopped by goalie Robb stauber. But the rebound went to Krayer who took one stride to the Bottom of the right face off Circle Slid a Backhander along the ice arid beat slam bar Low to the Slick Side. Vow Jinn i first saw inc puck appear 1 was still being checked by a de fens Man 1 Kraycir said i needed some space to get him Ottney Back so i took a Long  a. Ii was the sixth Lime and second  Row that the championship game has gone into overtime. Lake Superior slate beat is Lawrence  last year. Hughes a freshman started even though classmate Allain Roy was outstanding in the semifinals coach Bill Cleary said he was t about to change his season Long pol icy of alternating the two goalies just be cause a championship was at stake. A lot of people questioned coach about not playing me after a Victory Over Boston College Hughes said. Bui i knew that if 1 did t play Allan was going to do a great Job and if i did play hopefully i would do a great Job Anderson s six in goal in four inca tournament games gave Minnesota a  Lead after one. He took a drop pass from Ben Hankinson in the right Circle and beat h ughes with a wrist shot. Ted Donato s Power play goal on a slap shot from the. Left. Point tied the game 6 w minutes into the second. Harvard took a Lead Midway through the period when Lane Macdon Ald skated around. Def Anseman Dave Espe in the right Circle crossed in front of stauber waited for stauber to go Down and Slid the puck past the out of position Nel minder the gophers made it  on Jason Miller s Power play goal with 6 59 left in the second scaring on. A rebound of Lance Pitlick s shot from the Point. Phalp put the Crimson ahead with 7 07. Left in regulation when he Back handed a rebound Over stauber. But with Harvard s. John Weisbrod in the penalty Box for Cross checking Miller Peter Han Kinson scored off Hughes Arm with 3 26 to go sending the game into of. Olympics from Page 21 seem unfair for a country that invented basketball and has lost on y two limes since the sport was introduce to the games in 1936. But supporters argue that Many nations besides the United states will Benefit from the move. It s not just americans who play in inc Aba turn said. Look at West Germany which has three players in the Aba. Puerto Rico and Canada also would  the Philippines which has a thriving professional league of its own would get a boost in olympic Competition. Turner said while Nigeria which never has played in inc final olympic group could suddenly be come a Power with the eligibility of one of the Aba s sup Miars Kacem Olajuwon of the Houston rockets. The olympics had an uninterrupted string of . Gold medallist teams in the men s basketball tournament from the sport s introduction in Berlin through the 1968 games in Mexico cily. The United slates was unbeaten in that stretch and few teams came Clostio their Power after beating Canada ipg in the 1936 Gold medal game the closest the americans came o a loss in olympic finals was in 1952, when the soviet Union resorted to a stall and the United Stales won 36-25 behind Clyde Lovell Etc. Then came 1972 in Munich. Led by College stars such As Doug Collins Tommy Burleson Bobby Jones and Tom Mcmillan the United tales breezed through the first eight games before meeting the soviets in the final in one of the greatest controversies in International sports history the United Stales apparently had won at the last second. But the soviets protested claiming that there was still time on the clock. The protest was upheld and the soviets scored a last second bask Tafter the clock was reset fora 51-50 Victory ending the . Winning Streak a 62 games. The Man who ordered the clock reset then Secretary general r. William Jones of Britain has been mentioned prominently As one of Floc strongest supporters of the move to open the games to professionals. Integration of the world s Best play into fib Competition under our guardianship is my Dearest wish for 19b9," Stankovic wrote to federation Mem Bers earlier this year this would also make the dream of William Jones who worked for Many years to pre pare the path toward this goal come True in the last five years More and More sports have opened olympic eligibility to professionals. Hockey among the first to allow pros has had problems getting players from the National hockey1 league into the olympic program because the Winter games come in the Middle of the league season Turner said that should not be a problem for Basket Ball. The world championships next year Are in August and the 1992 olympics in Barcelona Spain Are in july and August and the Aba usually ends its playoff sin mid june and does t Sun its season until late october or Early november he said. We should be Able to fit it  As for the collegiate and of her Amateur players who have made up olympic and world championship teams until now Turner said there would be plenty Lull for them. There Are any number of International tournaments in which they amateurs can take part he said