European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 13,1990 the stars and stripes Page 25 nil Roundup Lemieux s string hits 46 by the associated press while Mario la Mioux continued to Chase Wayne grit by. Brett Hull passed Lake Dunlop. La Mioux is the big news in the nil these Days. He scored a goal in Pitts Burgh s 4-1 Victory Over Philadelphia sunday night extending his consecutive game Point scoring Streak to 46.five Short of Gretzky s record. Hull is less than Halfway to 46. But he had a goal in St. Louis 4-2 Victory Over Buffalo and has at least one Point in a team record 20 games. It was a slow weekend Point Wise for la Mioux. Who has been bothered by a sore Back and barely managed to keep his Streak alive with an assist on sat urday night against los Angeles an sunday night s goal. The Back has gotten worse and it getting tougher and tougher to play especially in Back to Back  la Mieux said. I m not 100 percent and i Don t think i would be playing now if it was t for the  la Mioux Cal Philadelphia goalie Ken Wrig gel with a wrist shot from the left Circle at 1 59 of the second period to give the penguins their 4-1 Lead. It was his 44lh goal and boosted his league Sov of stays with sabres Buffalo. . Al expander Mogiln. Who last year became the first soviet hockey player to defect to the West when he signed with the Buffalo sabres quelled talk he might defect again by taking a train. Mogiln missed the team s saturday flight because he was afraid of flying. J. The team then arranged of for him to take a train to Chi Cago and general manager Gerry Mcchan said Mogiln had assured him he docs not want to quit the team. He wants to play Hock  Mcchan said. Sunday s games leading Point total to 121 As the pen Guins won for Only the eighth time in 7q visits to the spectrum 8-56-6. In other games sunday blues 4, sabres 2 Hull tied the game la and broke the team scoring Mark of 19 games set by Dunlop during the 1980-81 season. Hull stole an errant Clearing pass and beat goalie Clint Malarchuk with a slap shot from the lop of the right Circle for his league leading 52nd goal at 16 42 of the first period. Steve Tuttle Adam dates and Dave Lowry also scored for St. Louis which has lost just once in 10 games 7-1-2 since the All Star break and moved into sole Possession of second place in the norms division two Points behind Chi Cago and two ahead of Toronto. Canucks 4, Bruins 2 pct i Skripko and Paul Reinhar scored 56 seconds apart Midway through the second period sunday a Vancouver won in Boston for the first time since dec. 13, 1980. Jim Sandlak added what proved to be the winning goal on an unassisted Effort in the third period and the canucks ended an 0-12 i Streak in Boston Garden. The Bruins were frustrated by goalie Kirk Mclean except for Cam Necly s 40th and 41st goals both on Power plays. Flames 5, rangers 2 Al a Ennis and Joe  first period Power play goals As Calgary ended a three game losing Streak. Joe Mullen. Theoron Fleury and Paul Ranheim added third period goal for the flames. Oilers 7. Jets 4 pct Klima and Esa Tikkanen each scored twice As Edmonton overcame a 3-0 first period deficit. Klima scored his goals in a four goal outburst in the final period with Tikkanen and Glenn an Derson scoring As Edmonton erased a 4 3 Winnipeg Lead. Jari Kerri and Craig Simpson also scored for the oilers. Capitals 5, North stars 3 Dino Ceccarclli and Dale Hunter each had a goal and an assist and Steve Leach set up two third period goals. Mike Ridley added a Short handed goal and Tim Bergland scored his first nil goal while Rookie goalie Jim Hrivnak stopped 26 shots.  had a shut out until Shawn Chambers scored at 1 34 of the third period. Mario  Gretzky s betting on Lemieux Alexander Mogiln Pittsburgh a Wayne grit by has predicted Mario Lemieux will break Many of his nil scoring re cords. But even the great one did t realize it might happen this soon. After watching la Mioux extend his consecutive game scoring Streak to 45 games with an assist in the Pittsburgh pen Guins 7-6 Victory Over the los Angeles Kings on saturday night. Gretzky predicted la Mieux will surpass his record 5 a game Streak of 1983-84. "1 think hell do it Grei by said the game. Surprisingly neither la Mieux nor Gretzky the nil s two lop scorers played much of a role in saturday s shoot out with each managing one assist. Lemieux was coming off consecutive five Point games but said his aching Back was t a Factor in his off night. The record figured to be one of most difficult of Gretzky s 51 nil regular season career postseason and All Star game records to break simply because an injury would end the Streak. Unlike baseball where a hit Ter can sit out a game and not jeopardize a lengthy hitting Streak the nil considers any Streak ended if a player is injured and can t play. La Mioux has endured a painful hernia cd disc that will require Post season surgery during his Streak which began fittingly enough on oct. 31against Gretzky and the Kings. Lemieux s Streak is All the More remarkable because in nil history Only two players Gretzky and Lemieux have managed even 30-Gamc streaks. By comparative Stan Dards Gretzky s record figured to be nearly As difficult to break As Joe Dimaggio s 56-game hitting Streak simply be cause no player other than Gretzky himself had even come close to Matching it. Gretzky also owns the third 39 games in 1985-86 and fourth longest 30 games in 1982 83 streaks in nil history. Civilians May be out of army championships by Rob Staggenborg stiff writer civilian basketball players who play Usa Keur Community la vol basketball May be relegated to the stands when the army european basketball championships Roll around sports officials said monday. According to v corps sports chief Joe Mulligan a proposal that would allow civilian basketball players to play in local army basketball s ultimate tournament was shot Down by a consensus of our and hoc committee that gathered in no vember to discuss the army european championships. This is not a v corps  Mulli Gan said it was a consensus at our meeting in november to go without civilians at the army european Champi  currently the Only command that Al lows civilian participation in its Community level sports team is the 21st Taa com. Two learns the Kaiserslautern panthers and the Parma sons roadrunners have civilian players on their rosters.  s Donald Robinson has been a key ingredient in the panthers new found offence after Shelby Brooks a civilian guard went Down with a knee injury in december. Robinson explode for 32 Points in a 106-105 loss to defend ing Usa eur Champion Karlsruhe sunday. Pir Masens got a much needed boost from civilian Darnell Arbeit. Arbeit a former Baum older eager until his Sepa ration from the army in 1988, has been credited with inc roadrunners transformation into contenders. Playing Center Arbeit punched in a game High 24 to Robinson s 14 in a 91-90 Parma sons Vic tory Over a town Friday night. Under the decision however All Ihrck players will watch their court match from the bleachers when the playoffs Roll around. Glen Pietras the 21 is s sports director said the Issue was nothing new. We be brought in up Ihrcke times in the last four years he said. In some cases it came Down to a question of Phil Oslo by. How do you answer a  you can  Ivory Carter who along with Pietras lobbied successfully to include civilian participation in the 21 is s company level programs two years ago. Is looking to bringing civilians to a higher level of Competition. I know and understand that inc program is initially for the sol  said Carter who May ultimately lose Robinson when his panthers and Vance to Post season play. We should afford them the Opportunity to at least try out for the team. Set quotas. What Ever in takes. If in comes Down to in he conceded Well have to go without Robinson. I still think we re regressing instead of progressing with this  Carter s a town team sans Robin son May not be favored to win in this highly competitive 21 is league bul a Pir masons learn forced to play Arbili less May not have a Chance. Arbeit is one of the lop basketball players in All of Europe Carter said. His wife is still in the military so therefore he s technically family member. What we re doing is depriving not just Arbeit but All of the fans who come to Walch him play. Go to firm one weekend. The stands arc packed. Everybody loves a Btl because he Puls on a  still chances Are thai 21 is s civilian show is bound to be a no go. V and Vii officials said icy will review the props Sal. But even Pietras is gearing himself for the expected. I can l say for sure whether or not anything will change Pietras said. The civilian argument rests on the fact that we do in lad. Have a total army family. The civilians serve in a supporting role for the army Here. All we re trying to Doit make our  in other army basketball news. Robert Estes is Back but the defend ing Usa eur Champion Karlsruhe is hitting some snags in what should have been a Carefree season. First Estes disappears for what he called personal Rea  the pacers keep the Faith and a perfect record in his absence. Estes came Back to the learn feb. 4. Scored 55 Points against the hapless Worms wildcats. All seemed Well until Estes and his pacers sneaked into Parma Sens and lost to the up and coming roadrunners 107-105. Estes scored 22 Points in the loss. One loss docs not closer make. Two losses however. The 21st basketball playoffs kick off March 27 in Karlsruhe and will run until april 1, Pitras said