European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 3,1989 the stars and stripes Page 21 flyers Down Montreal 3-1 Montreal a Ken Wreggit turned in his second consecutive Brilliant playoff performance to Lead the Phila Delphia flyers to a 3-1 Victory Over the Montreal canadians monday night in the opening game of the nil Wales conference final. Arc Ggut s 24 saves and Short handed goals by Derrick Smith and Lukka Sinisalo snapped Patrick Roy s 35-game Home unbeaten siring. Roy has never beaten Philadelphia in nine meetings. It seems like a dream come True said arc Ggut who was acquired late inthe season from Toronto and was used sparingly behind Ron Hextall. Who is benched with a strained knee ligament. I m just Happy to be playing. The Guys Are playing great in front of me like they be been doing every  the flyers coming off their wars Reg ular season since 1971-72 they were fourth in the Patrick division at 36-36-8 Montreal was 53-18-9, tops in the Adams were a decided underdog entering the Bcst-of-7 series. Hut they played a Superb positional game got the clinching score by Rick touch cd after Montreal s Only goal and saw arc get duplicate his feat of last saturday night when he replaced he Lall and beat Pittsburgh 4-1 in the seventh game of the Patrick division finals. I d been sitting on the Bench Yelling As loud As i can and now i got a Chance to contribute said Wreggit. Game 2 will be played in Montreal wednesday night. We expect them to come out gun blazing in the next game Wreggit said. The Short handed goals gave the Fly ers a 2-0 Lead. Shayno Corson then scored for Montreal before Tocchet got the final goal 63 seconds later. Stanley cup playoffs Philadelphia s Rick Tocchet checks Montreal s Rick Green in first period action. Wreggit also had some Praise for Roy who made 23 saves but was victimized on breakaways on the two Short handed goals. The Odds were against him arc get said. But it was a hell of a  Roy returned the compliment. Wrig gel played outstanding hews probably the reason they won he said. He was philosophical about seeing his Streak end. "1 knew it would happen some Day he said. Every Good thing must end an now every bad thing must  Smith scored on a breakaway at 13 45 of the opening period. With teammate Scott Mellanby penalized Smith picked up a Loose puck after Montreal de fens Man Chris Chelios mishandled a pass at the Point went in on a breakaway faked right then beat the goalie to the left. It s certainly a real blow when you have a Short handed goal scored against you said Montreal s Ryan Walter. They re a Good Short handed team. We have to Back each other up out  the canadians also were healthy except for right Wing Claude la Mioux s Groin injury. The flyers were missing the tall Keith Acton and Murray Craven and had Tocchet was playing with a knee injury. The flyers also lost one of their top scorers Brian Propp 7 07 into the Sec Ond period when he suffered a concus Sion and Cut lip when elbowed into the boards by Chris Chelios. Propp was taken off the ice by Stretcher and went to a Hospital for a rays. It looks like he will be of said Fly ers coach Paul Holmgren. Dave Poulin set up the second Phila Delphia goal when he took the puck from Larry Robinson and hit Sinisalo break ing Over the Montreal line. Sinisalo s shot trickled past Roy for his first goal of the playoffs. Corson broke Wreggit s shutout when he took the rebound of Russ Courtnell s shot at the Side of the crease and put ithome with 7 54 remaining Montreal s new life lasted just 63 seconds As Tocchet stuffed the puck past Roy with 6 51 to  his heroics. Wreggit stopped Mats Naslund from alone in the Slot Early in the second period and later made two saves from Point Blank Range on Chelios. Gooden mets defeat braves 3-1 by the associated press Atlanta Dwight Gooden was coasting toward what would have been the 20th shutout of his career until twisting his left ankle in the seventh inning. Gooden 5-0, lost his shutout bid in the eighth be fore Roger Mcdowell got the final six outs As the new York mets handed the Atlanta braves their seventh loss in a Row 3-1, monday night. Gooden turned the ankle while trying to Field a ground or to the left of the Mound slipping on the wet Mound. Gooden struck out two and walked two in the game. The mets look a 1-0 Lead 9 Szanc Smith 0-4, in the third inning. Kevin Elster singled went to second on Goodwn s sacrifice but was trapped off second on Len Dykstra s tap to the Mound. Dykstra reached second during the rundown and Atlanta s Lonnie Smith loses his helmet As he is tagged out by the mets Tim Teufel during an attempted meal. Scored on Howard Johnson s double. The mets added two More runs in the seventh when Kevin Mcreynolds doubled went to third on Tim Teu Fol s single and sc9rcd on Gary Carter s pop Fly single to shallow Center with Teufel racing to third. Thu Fol then scored when Elster grounded into a double play. In other games monday reds 19, expos 6 Montreal Paul o Neill drove in five runs and Jeff Reed had five hits As Cincinnati Lallich the mos runs Ever scored against Montreal. The 19 runs Given up by Montreal topped the previous record set in a 17-5 loss 10 Louston on aug. 17,1972. Cardinals 6, padres 0 san Diego Jose Delcon pitched a six Hitler for his second shutout in his last i rec starts As St. Louis Defeated san Diego for their sixth straight Victory. Do Leon 5-1, walked one and struck out eight. Dodgers i pirates 0 los Angeles Pinch Hitler Mickey Hatcher scored Mike Davis with a bases loaded sacrifice Fly in the Bottom of the ninth inning As los Angeles ended a four game losing Streak with a Victory Over Pittsburgh. Davis who broke Oul of a 2-for-l7 drought with a pair of singles Drew a Ladof walk in the ninth against pirates starter Doug Drabek 1-3. After Eddie Murray s second single of the game put runners at first and third Mike Scioscia was intentionally walked. Drabek struck out John Shelby but Hatcher batting for Jeff Hamilton lifted a Fly Ball to Center Field and Davis easily beat the throw by . Reynolds. Cubs 4, giants 3,12 innings san Francisco Damon Berryhill just off the disabled list led off the 12th inning with a Home run to give Chicago a Victory Over san Francisco. Mike Lacoss 1-2. Gave up the Homer on a 2-1  Pico 1-0, pitched Ihrcke Willess innings for the win. Astros Phillies postponed Philadelphia monday night s game Between i Louston and Philadelphia was postponed by rain