European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Penguins rip devils win series. A. A a.  the new York times Pittsburgh a new Jersey got off to a stumbling Start and never recovered As the Pittsburgh penguins embarrassed the devils 4-0 and eliminated them from the Stanley cup playoffs. It started when the referee was ready to drop the puck to Start monday night s game a Center Laurie Pittsburgh s Ron Francis sprawls Over Lee Norwood of the devils in front of the new Jersey goal during monday s game Stanley cup playoffs Boschman stumbled and fell to the ice As he lined up to take the opening face off. The devils proceeded to stumble and fall for an entire game in the humiliating seventh game loss of the Patrick division semifinal series As a loud sellout crowd of 16,164 cheered the Home team on at civic Arena. A when you come Down to one game its like the super bowl one team wins and they were the better team a said devils defens Eman Bruce Driver. A i Felt i see cup on Page 22 magic passes big o s record magic Johnson. Moved to tears by John Nadel the associated press Inglewood Calif. Magic Johnson became the a bad a Alj time assist Leader and in the Celebration held on court after he reached that Milestone he was moved to tears. A i figured it would he emotional a Johnson said monday after surpassing Oscar Robertson a career assist record during the lakers Victory Over the Dallas Mavericks. A i thought about All the times we played shirts and skins hoping one Day to get into the Aba. Then finally getting into the Aba. A i cried for All the limes i shovelled Snow off the walk and practice Hook shots with my dad in Michigan growing up. I cried for my dad. He s the one a he a the Only reason in a Here. He explained to me How to share the basketball a a Johnson got 19 assists in the lakers 112-106 Victory. A three time league map he needed nine assists to break Robertson a record of 9,887. Johnson finished the game with 9,898. The record tying assist came with 6 46 left in the second Quarter As Johnson set up James worthy for a Short jump shot. Johnson got his record breaking ninth assist with 5 44 left in the period lobbing a pass to Terry Teagle who made a 15-foot turnaround Juniper from the right Baseline. / \ a a a v. It was a rather interesting irony a Teagle  be with the lakers right now had it not been for Johnson s generosity last  lakers acquired Teagle from the Golden state warriors in Exchange for a first round draft Choice. The lakers  sign Teagle because of the Aba salary Cap but Johnson gave up a portion of his salary to make that possible. A it s ironic a Johnson said. A the ran up see magic on Page 22 the stars and stripes ports april 17,1991 b Page 28 inside sports sex play makers Call magic one of a kind a Page 22 Whelihan getting his kicks in Olaf Page 25 monarchs Whitewash fire to go 4-0 a Page 25 kenyan pole claims laurels in Boston a Page 26 padres take 11 innings to Down reds a Page 26kings lose record 35th on Road by the associated press Bloomington  Sacramento King entered the Aba record Book the hard Way losing their 35th straight Road game monday night. They led in the third Quarter when a cold Streak hit spelling doom and a 112-94 loss to the Minnesota Tim be i wolves. Sacramento broke the record of 34 set by the new Jersey nets whose Streak ended Early this season about the time Sacramento s began. The Kings Haven t won on the Road since beating Washington nov. 20. Prospects Arentt Bright for the string to end this year. Games at Utah on tuesday and at Portland on Friday close the Kings Road schedule. Antoine Carr scored 24 Points for the Kings who shot 40.8 percent and were out rebounded 66-40. Lionel Simmons the leagues top Rookie scorer missed All nine of his shots. Tyrone Corbin scored 19 Points Pooh Richardson 17 and Sam Mitchell 16 for the time wolves. Sacramento led 59-57 with 61/ minutes left in the third Quarter but scored Only two baskets the rest of the period. Corbin had seven Points during an 11-0 run that enabled Minnesota to take the Lead and end up Aba with a 78-68 margin after three periods the Tim be wolves opened the fourth with a 13-4 run to Lead by As Many As 21 Points us Kings coach Dick Motta ran out of solutions. A a in be tried everything. Days off ahead of time. Work them hard the Day before. No shoot around. Shoot around. Talk about focus and body care. Even dug As Low to talk about girls. And All the things that Are important to a  in other monday games bulls.103, Bucks 94 Chicago a Michael Jordan scored a season High 46 Points As Chicago won a club record 58th game by defeating Milwaukee. The bulls upped their record to 58-21 to surpass the club Mark of 57-25 in the 1971-72 season. The Victory also gave Chicago a 115-game Lead Over Idle Boston in the race for the Eastern conferences Best record and Home court advantage through the playoffs. The loss dropped Milwaukee one game behind Detroit in the race for the third seed in the conference. Frank Biekowski led Milwaukee with 22 Points. Lakers 112, Mavericks 106 _ Inglewood Calif. A magic Johnson surpassed Oscar Robertson As the a bad Sall time assist Leader winding up with 19 in leading the los Angeles lakers to Victory. James worthy led the lakers with 23 Points including a Basket off Johnson a record tying assist. , a u on front and of the record breaker finished with 21. Johnson scored Only seven Points and had nine rebounds and 11 turnovers. °5rek Harper led Dallas with 29 Points 19 of them in the fourth Quarter. Herb Williams contributed 22 Points and u  97, sonics 93 Seattle a Otis Thorpe scored 28 Points including the go ahead Basket with 6 05 to play As Houston pulled into a second place tie with Utah one game behind san Antonio in the Midwest division title Chase. The rockets improved to 24-6 since the All Star break and Are tied with the jazz at 51-27 Overall. San Antonio leads with a 52-26 Mark and each has four games left. Because of tiebreaker formulas Houston must finish ahead of san Antonio and Utah to win the division title