European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 a a a the stars and stripes thursday March 22,1990caps rip skidding islanders by the associated press Landover my. A Mike luit notched his first shutout for Washington and the capitals continued the new York islanders spiral out of the playoffs with a 3-0 Victory tuesday. John Drucci Dale Hunter and Scott Stevens scored for Washington which moved into third place in the Patrick division with six games to play. The islanders who fell to 1-12-4 Over their last 17 games remained two nil Roundup Points behind fourth place Pittsburgh with five games remaining. They have lost eight consecutive Road games. The result clinched a playoff berth for the new York rangers who Are first in the Patrick. List who was traded to Washington from Hartford on March 5, stopped 24 shots and improved his record to 5-14-2 lifetime against the islanders. He has 24 career shutouts most among Active nil goalies. In other tuesday games flyers 3, devils 2 East Rutherford . A Murray Craven and Mike Bullard scored second period Power play goals and Ken arc get stopped 27 shots As the Philadelphia flyers kept alive their playoff Hopes by defeating the new Jersey devils 3-2. The Victory was the flyers third in four games 3-1 and moved them three Points behind Pittsburgh in the Battle for the fourth and final playoff berth in the Patrick division where five Points separate second and sixth place. Canucks 4, red wings 4 Detroit a Greg Adams scored his second goal of the game with 6 58 remaining in the third period to lift the Vancouver canucks to a 4-4 tie with the Detroit red wings. The red wings 27-34-13 began tuesday night tied with Minnesota for the Norris divisions final playoff spot. North stars 5, Kings 2 Bloomington Minn. A Minnesota goalie Jon Casey tied the team record for victories in a season and Light scoring Gacutan Duchesne scored two goals As the North stars moved into sole Possession of fourth place in the Norris division with a 5-2 Victory Over the los Angeles Kings. Casey made just 19 saves to improve his record to 27-22-4, tying the Victory Mark set by Gilles Mclochlin 1979-80. Brian Bellows also scored twice for the North stars extending his Point scoring Streak to 10 games the longest current Streak in the league. Pistons Streak hits 12 even the Long Arm of Patrick Ewing can to Stop Scott Skiles from dishing of tuesday. By the associated press Milwaukee Chuck Daly s dream is a Nightmare for Detroit pistons opponents. A a we re on a Streak and i Hope 1 done to Wake up a a the Detroit coach said after the pistons won their 12th straight game beating the Milwaukee Bucks 117-96 tuesday night. The pistons put the Bucks in an Early Hole and refused to let them out. Forcing Milwaukee into shooting 22 Aba Roundup percent 5 for 23 in the second Quarter and for the first six minutes of the second Quarter allowed Only two layups and a jump shot. The pistons have won 25 of their last 26 and last lost in Atlanta feb. 23. In other games tuesday night magic 121, kicks 118 new York a Scott Skiles had his first career triple double Nick Anderson scored a career High 29 Points and Michael Ansley had 16 in the fourth Quarter As the Orlando magic broke a nine game losing Streak by beating new York. Skiles had career highs with 23 Points and 12 rebounds and tied his career High with 17 assists for Orlando which snapped an 11-Gamc losing Streak on the Road. Trail blazers 120, rockets 110 Houston a Clyde Drexler scored eight of his season High 41 Points in the final three minutes to Lead Portland past Houston to a club record 10th straight Victory. Bulls 122, bullets 97 Chicago a Scottie pippin scored 10 of his 24 Points during a third Quarter barrage and Stacey King came off the Bench to score a Carcer High 24 Points for Chicago. Pacers 112, heat 98 Miami a detlef Schrempf scored 20 of his career High 29 Points in the first half As Indiana took a huge Lead Early and snapped a five game losing Streak. Lakers 109, hornets 97 Inglewood Calif. A Byron Scott scored 21 Points for los Angeles which clinched a playoff berth and celebrated the retirement of Kareem Abdul Jabbary a uniform number. Warriors 105, Timber wolves 101 Oakland Calif. A Rod Higgins subbing for the ailing Chris Mullin scored a season High 26 Points As Golden state handed Minnesota its 20th consecutive Road loss. Nuggets 119, clippers 112 Denver a Alex English who scored 28 Points put Denver ahead to stay with 2 25 remaining. Spurs 128, supersonics 106 Seattle a David Robinson scored 20 of his 39 Points in the fourth Quarter and had 10 rebounds As san Antonio routed Seattle. Baseball works on restoring its lost weekend new York apr baseball moved closer to restoring its 162-game schedule tuesday and finished revising the exhibition season to include an extra week of games. A decision is Likely wednesday on the regular season and it is expected All teams will wind up at 162. With opening Day pushed Back to april 9 because of the owners lockout clubs currently Are set to play just 158 games. A the Issue is not totally resolved a commissioner Fay Vincent said. A a they re still working on  baseball would prefer to make up the missing games at the end of the season. That would push the postseason Back by a few Days and that move would require permission from lbs to which holds the rights to show the playoffs and world series. A i guess that would be Ideal a Vincent said. A it would be so much easier to transpose the week. It would be Crisp and  Vincent said lbs has been  the network said it is considering its options. A baseball initiated discussions with us yesterday on giving consideration to moving the postseason Back a said Jeremy Handelman vice president of program planning at lbs sports. A we have not established a position we re examining  a a we re in a business partnership with baseball we have a collective interest Here a Handelman said. �?o1 can appreciate from a fans standpoint that what happens in october is not an immediate concern. But there Are numerous things that Are affected within  if the season cannot be extended doubleheaders and open dates could be used to play the extra games. Several games meanwhile were added to the sex u bit Ion schedule. The Spring season had net _. Through april 1 a the Day before the original do k Day a but was changed to go through april 8. Spring training began tuesday and exhibit sort a Start March 26. All teams will play at least i. _ and the Chicago cubs will play the most 16 a split squad and a a by games still might be added. Also baseball clarified a scoring rules dec s la in ing that for the first two weeks of the season pitchers will need to work just three inning credit for a Victory. After that starters Wir Itolo Tun ii cml try of to inf