European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes monday december 30, 1991 1knicks topple pacers in of an open mouthed Greg Anthony of kicks tries to Block a shot by pacers Reggie Miller. By the associated press new York a John Starks 3-Pointer tied the game with 1.6 seconds left in regulation and the new York kicks who let a 20-Point Lead slip away in the second half rallied for a 115-106 overtime Victory Over Indiana saturday. New York scored the first five Points of overtime and outscored the pacers 145 in the extra session for its 12th Victory in 13 Home games. Indiana was held scoreless for the first 3 10 of overtime and hit just one Field goal. Xavier Mcdaniel led new York with 32 Points. Rookie Greg Anthony starting his first game had career highs with 20 Points and 13 assists and Starks also had 20 Points. Anthony was playing in place of Mark Jackson attending the birth of his child. Detlef Schrempf led Indiana with 28 Points including 17 in the fourth Quarter when the pacers rallied for their first Lead with a 19-3 spurt. In other games saturday jazz 128, heat 103 Salt Lake City Karl Malone had 38 Points and 13 rebounds and Jeff Malone scored 22 Points As Utah routed Miami. Steve Smith scored 19 Points for the heat who lost their fourth straight game on the Road. The Victory ran Utah a Home record to 10-1 and kept the jazz atop the Midwest division. Utah a largest leads were 126-99 with 1 17 left and 128-101 with 20 seconds remaining. The game was close late in the first Quarter with Utah leading 21-18. But a 15-4 run including six Points by Karl Malone put the jazz up 36-22 at the end of the period. Utah led by As Many As 22 Points in the second  127, Kings 118 Chicago a Michael Jordan regained the Aba scoring Lead with 33 Points and Scottie Pippen had 27, lifting Chicago Over Sacramento. The win was the 22nd in 24 games and the fifth straight for the bulls while Chelate islander goal snaps Ranger Streak by the associated press Uniondale . Tom Fitzgerald a goal with 2.7 seconds left in regulation time saturday night gave the new York islanders a 5-4 Victory Over the new York rangers. The win was the first in five games for the islanders and ended the rangers seven game winning Streak. The rangers trailed 4-2 before tying the game Midway through the third period on goals 2 51 apart by Tony Amonte and Kris King. But Fitzgerald a shot from the right Circle deflected past John Vanbiesbrouc to extend the islanders unbeaten Streak Over the rangers at the Nassau coliseum to eight games. In other games saturday night devils 3, sabres 0 East Rutherford . Craig Billington made 26 saves for his first nil shutout and Doug Brown scored twice As new Jersey beat Buffalo. Stephane Richer scored a Power play goal in the second period and Brown connected twice in the third As the devils ended a three game wingless Streak and improved their record outside the Patrick division to 13-5-2. They Are 4-0-2 in their last six meetings with Buffalo. The sabres who routed Boston 8-1 on Friday night Are 2-10-4 in their last 16 games and fell to 1-5-1 against the Patrick  6, capitals 2 Landover my. Pittsburgh avenged three straight Blowout losses to Washington and handed the capitals their season High third straight loss As Mark Recchi and Phil Bourque each scored twice. Wendell Young had 27 saves for the penguins who Are 13-4-1 in their last 18 games. The Victory moved third place Pittsburgh within three Points of the capitals and new York rangers who share the Patrick division Lead. Recchi and Bourque scored 34 seconds apart in the first period and each tallied again in the  wings 5, Maple Leafs 4 Toronto a Steve Chiasson and Kevin Miller scored less than a minute apart Early in the third period As the red hot red wings overtook the Maple Leafs. Toronto led 3-2 before Miller tied the ame during a Power play at 3 24 of the Inal period and Chiasson whipped Steve yzermans pass behind Grant Fuhr at 4 07 to put Detroit ahead to stay. I Gerard Gallant added an insurance goal As the red wings improved to 16-23 in their last 21 games. Ray Sheppard and Alan Kerr also scored Tor Detroit. Peter Zezel had a goal and assisted on Power play goals by Dave Ellett and Dan Marois for Toronto Kings 9, oilers 4 Edmonton Alberta a Wayne Gretzky who led Edmonton to four Stanley cups before being sent to los Angeles in 1988, had a goal and three assists to Lead the Kings past the oilers. Tomas Sandstrom scored two first period goals to awaken the Kings slumbering offence which had produced Only 23 goals in the last seven games. Jari Kerri Dave Taylor and Mike Donnelly scored for los Angeles in the second period and Gretzky capped a three goal third period with his 16th of the  4, whalers 1 Quebec a Owen Nolan a 25th goal of the season helped Quebec end a seven game wingless Streak by beating Hartford. Nolan Doug Smail and Mikhail Tatarinov scored first period goals As Quebec last in the Adams division at 10-22-5, moved within three Points of fourth place Buffalo. Mats Sundin added an insurance Elba Kings have lost seven straight. But Sacramento losers of 51 of its last 52 Road games kept it close As Mitch Richmond scored 33 Points and Wayman Tisdale and Spud Webb had 18 each. Jordan increased his average to 29.0 Points while Dominique Wilkins had 19 Points in Atlanta to fall to 28.7. Nuggets 97, celtics 90 Denver a rookies Mark Macon and Dike be Mutombo combined for 37 Points and 27 rebounds and Denver exploited a cold shooting game by Boston. Macon had career highs of 21 Points and 10 rebounds and Mutombo 16 Points and 17 rebounds for the nuggets. Reggie Lewis kept the celtics close with 27 Points but Larry Bird and Kevin Mchale were off form missing 19 of 23 shots in the first half and 28 of 37 for the game. Bird finished with 13 Points. Hawks 125, wolves 122, of Atlanta a Dominique Wilkins scored six of his 19 Points in overtime leading Atlanta Over Minnesota. Suns 121, Mavericks 103 Phoenix a Kevin Johnson scored 11 of his 26 Points in the Pivotal third Quarter As Phoenix broke open a tight game against Dallas. Bullets 129, hornets 124 Baltimore a Harvey Grant scored 21 of his 27 Points in the second half leading Washington Over Charlotte at Baltimore Arena. Trail blazers 98, lakers 88 Inglewood Calif. Clyde Drexler had 22 Points As Portland beat los Angeles in the first meeting Between the two clubs since the lakers won the Western conference finals last May. Clippers 102,76ers 95 los Angeles Charles Smith scored 26 Points and Olden polynice grabbed 16 rebounds As los Angeles beat Philadelphia for the first time in eight tries since 1987. Goal in the third period. John Cullen scored for third place Hartford 13-18-4which has lost three of its last four  5, flyers 1 Calgary Alberta a Theoren Fleury scored twice and Mike Vemon made 29 saves As Calgary downed Philadelphia. Fleury got his 21st goal of the season in the Erst period and added his 22nd on a Power play in the second As the flames ended a three game losing Streak. Calgary was 2-7-1 in 10 december games before the Christmas break. Marc Habscheid Ronnie Stem and Paul Ranheim also scored for the flames who were out shot 30-29 before a crowd of 20,133 a Only the fourth full House at the saddled me this season. Rick Tocchet spoiled Vernon a shutout bid with a second period  3, Sharks 2 Daly City Calif. Igor Larionov scored his second nil hat trick As Vancouver Defeated san Jose to extend its unbeaten Streak to seven games. The canucks overcame 1-0 and 2-1 deficits to equal their longest unbeaten Streak of the season. Vancouver which opened the season by going 5-0-2, is 4-0-3 during its current Streak