European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 a a a the stars and stripes monday february 26,1990 w soviet defender Vasily rats makes the tackle against Eric Wynalda of the uj5. Soviets clip . 3-1 Stanford. Calif. Apr Fedor cd Crnkov scored a tic breaking goal just before halftime. And the soviet Union beat a punch less United states squad 3-1 saturday. The . Team preparing for its first world cup in 40 years held its own against the soviets for most of the first half and tied the score at la on a penalty kick by John harks in the 41st min Ute a the penalty was called when Oleg Luzny tripped Peter Vermes outside the goal Mouth. But seconds before halftime a soviet free kick bounced off the . Wall to Cherenkov. Whose 20-Yard shot beat goalkeeper Tony Meola and went into the upper right Corner of the net. The crowd of 61.000 was the largest to watch the . Team in its Home country since the 1984 olympics. The soviets listed by Odd makers As a 12-1 Choice to win the world cup. Con trolled the second half and could have scored three or four More goals had it not been for some bad Luck and the acrobatic goalkeeping by Meola. A 2l-Ycar-old who left the University of Virginia in december. Oleg Protasov scored the soviets third goal on a 5-Yard shot in the 67th minute after the United states failed to Clear a Loose Ball from the goal area. Earlier in the half. Vasilev rats drove a shot against the left goal Post and Meola blocked a Point Blank kick by Sergei Rodionov. The United states which mounted a few offensive forays in the first half had virtually none in the second half. Paul Caligiuri had a final Chance for the americans but sailed an open shot Over the crossbar with six minutes to play. Defens Eman Vladimir Bess nov scored the first soviet goal in the 28th minute with a Short angled kick off Meola a fingertips. Richer powered canadians blast penguins 11-1 by the associated press Montreal a Stephane Richerts two breakaway goals highlighted a record shooting barrage for the Montreal canadians in an 11-1 Victory Over the Mario Lemieux less Pittsburgh penguins. Richcr a goals sparked the canadians offence As they scored four times in each of the first two periods and out shot Pittsburgh 61-26 Overall. The 61 shots were a club record breaking the Mark of 59 in one game set oct. 12, 1963. Russ Courtnell had two goals Guy car Bonneau had a goal and three assists and Peter. Svoboda Mike Mcphee Jyrki Lumc. Mats Naslund Shayne Corson and Claude la Mioux also scored for Montreal 34-23-7. The canadians moved a Point behind the Idle second place Buffalo sabres in the Adams division. Phil Bourque had the Only goal for the penguins who dropped to 29-29-5. The penguins arc 2-2-1 since losing Lemieux the league scoring Leader. In other nil action saturday jets 3, whalers 1 Hartford. Conn. A Winnipeg goal tender Bob Essensa improved his career Mark to 3-0 against Hartford stopping 28 shots. Despite the setback the whalers 2828-7, clinched the fourth and final playoff berth in the Adams division since last place Quebec was mathematically eliminated in a 6-1 loss to St. Louis. Greg Paslawski. Doug Smail and Mark Kumpul scored for the jets. Ron Francis scored on the Power play for Hartford a Only goal. Blues 6, nordic us 1 Quebec a Vincent Riendeau blocked 34 of 35 shots and St. Louis scored three goals in a five minute Span in the first period in route to a Victory Over Quebec. The loss. Quebec a 16th in its last 17 games officially eliminated the Nordi ques from the incl playoffs for the third straight year. Ron Wilson. Steve Tuttle Dave Lowry. Brett Hull. Rob Brindz amour and Paul Cavallini scored for the blues. Nil Roundup Michel Petit spoiled Riendeau s bid for his second shutout in two weeks with a goal Midway through the second period when the blues were leading 5-0. Bruins 3, North Stan 2 Bloomington Minn. A Garry Galley and Craig Janney scored 38 seconds apart to break a second period tie As Boston won its fourth straight Road game beating Minnesota. The Victory gave the Bruins the no la Best Road team at 19-11-3, a 10-1-i record in their last 12 Road games. Devils 3, Blac Khawly 2 East Rutherford. . A Chris Terreri made 39 of his 46 saves during a Chicago onslaught in the final two periods As new Jersey held off a Blackhawk rally ending a six game wingless Streak. Terreri was spectacular against a team that had the better of the play for the final 57 minutes. Chicago out shot new Jersey 41-7 in the final two periods. Islander 3, red wings 3 Uniondale . A Gary Nylund scored his first goal of the season connecting on a Power play with 6 19 left in the third period As the new York islanders rallied to tie Detroit. Steve yzermans 50th goal helped Detroit take an Early 3-0 Lead but the islanders came Back to end a four game losing Streak. New York did it without Pat Lafontaine who missed his first Fame of the season because of an injured Eft hand. Canucks 6, Kings 4 los Angeles a Dan Quinn fired in three goals including two unassisted scores in the third period to carry Vancouver Over los Angeles halting the canucks five game wingless Streak. After los Angeles built a 3-0 Lead in the first period the canucks reeled off five consecutive goals and held on to defeat Kings goalie Kelly Hrudney for the first time in 17 career decisions. Hrudney out since feb. 10 with mononucleosis faced Only 23 shots. His record against Vancouver was 13-0-3.baseball talks remain stalled on arbitration by Ronald Blum new York apr neither players nor owners budged on salary arbitration saturday and just one negotiating session remains before a recess that will endanger the Start of the regular season. Union chief Donald Chr said after a nearly five hour meeting that there was no Point in getting together on sunday the 11th Day of the Spring training lockout but that he would be available by Telephone. The sides will meet monday before the Union Staft leaves for an executive Board session in Phoenix the following Day. Fehr said he would probably not return to new York immediately and instead Brief players around the country meaning talks probably would not resume for a while. Management negotiator Chuck o Connor said both sides would have to regroup if an agreement Isnit reached by monday. That endangers the Start of the regular season on april 2, since both sides say players need at least three weeks of Spring training and several Days to travel to Camps. Quot we d be close Quot o Connor said when asked if monday was the last Chance to reach an agreement before threatening opening Day. The sides reached agreement saturday on virtually All non economic issues such As meal Money scheduling and termination pay. They devoted the last hour to salary arbitration the key to breaking the Stal Cmunt. Quot i can to predict what a going to happen from Here Quot Chr said. Quot they simply indicated the lockout is going to go on indefinitely apparently its going to Lead to a lengthy lockout which the clubs have been planning for months and months and players want arbitration eligibility rolled Back to two years the Way it was before the 1985 agreement. Clubs want it to stay at three years. Quot the owners made representations of economic distress Quot Fehr said of the 1985 talks. Quot we responded to those and made concessions. Those representation turned out to be wrong. Therefore the owners should not be in a position to take advantage of concessions made on that Union lawyer Eugene Orza said players with Between two and three years in the majors made $17,748,234 in 1989, just $53,547 More than they did in 1985. Baseball revenues increased from $718 million in 1985 to Between $1.1 billion and $1.2 billion last year and the Union argued that salaries of players Between their second and third years should be allowed to Rise because of that. O Connor argued that the give Back was part of an Overall bargain that included agreement on the Benefit plan Ana minimum salary. Quot As part of that bargain a year of arbitration was Given Back by the Union Quot he said. Pitcher David Cone of the new York mets the Only player at saturday s talks spoke of possible Compromise saying that perhaps Only regulars in the group Between their second and third years could be made eligible for arbitration. A i Don t know if players would accept it a said Cone who last week tripled his salary in arbitration. A but it would be a move in the right the Union made its first proposal on the Benefit plan saying it would Back off what it says is its right to a traditional one third of the National television contract. That third would be $83 million in 1990, but Fehr said the Union s proposal was for an average of Between $61 million and $62 million a year. The current contribution is $39 million and management s offer would average $44.8 million under the new contract. Cone meanwhile said he hoped owners would reconsider their lockout stance and open the Camps closed since feb. 15. Quot we re ready to go a he said. Quot we want to play. We re ready to go out at the drop of a but he also said at some Point the players in Florida and Arizona would have to make the Choice to return to their Homes instead of a waiting for something that in t going to
