European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes b Page 21rangers rally to tie Vancouver by the associated press new York a on a Day when the United states hockey team lost its Lead with 21 seconds left to Sweden at the olympics the Vancouver canucks waited even longer before blowing it at Madison Square Garden. Darren Turcotte scored with a half second remaining in regulation monday lifting the new York rangers to a 3-All tie with the canucks. A a it a a Tough one to Swallow when the puck is in the net and you look up at ii the score clock and there a less than one second left a Vancouver defens Eman Doug Lidster said. The rangers the top team in the nil pulled goalie John Vanbiesbrouc and the move paid off at the last second. Mike Gartner took a Low shot that goal tender Kirk Mclean stopped and Brian Leetch and Tim Kerr took turns at the rebound. They missed but Turcotte scored with one final swipe. A it was five or 10 seconds after i scored before i finally looked up at the clock a Turcotte said. A i knew there Didiw Klinow there watthathal1�?T 1 Basil Mcrae of the North stars winds up to throw a punch at Lyle Odelein of the canadians during a fight in Montreal on monday. A once there a that Little time left in the game everybody just goes to the net a he a shot said. A everybody was just trying to whack in other games monday in a. Islanders 5, jets 4 the rangers the Patrick division limn Wain we Tom sell in a notes by had Jess said a on on Streak of since feb. 21 1988. Vanbiesbrouc had win a. 205 into overtime and won 13 straight games against the c new York Defeated visiting Winnipeg. A a 4.the islanders scored three times in the Vancouver the smythe division Lead thir j Rod for a 4.3 Ead but Winnipeg ers had lost five in a Row. Ted it when Thomas Steen scored with a obviously we Felt we played Good  Eft. Fitzgerald got his sixth goal of enough to win the hockey game a can the season when he backhanded the puck sucks coach Pat Quinn said. A to get tied past Bob Essensa. With a half second left a its pretty Tough a in c Ato  red wings 5, blues 3 Rookie Pavel Bure scored two goals Detroit a Paul Ysebaert scored his for the canucks. He also missed on a second goal of the game with 1 22 Lett penalty shot when Vanbiesbrouc poked breaking a 3-All tie in Detroit. Away the puck before Bure could get off Ysebaert intercepted Ron Wilson s Clearing pass and took a shot that deflected Home off Garth butchers skate. Ray Sheppard scored into an empty net with 45 seconds left. The red wings won their third in a Row. They have won five of sue against St. Louis. Brett Hull scored his 57th goal for the blues. Kings 6, Bruins 3 Inglewood Calif. Wayne Gretzky and Luc Robitaille celebrating his 26th birthday each had two goals and two assists As los Angeles beat visiting Boston. Robitaille who has 12 goals in his last eight games scored his league leading 20th Power play goal. Gretzky and Rob Blake also connected As the Kings scored on the Power play for the ninth straight game. Gretzky added an empty net tally for his 24th goal of the season. Robitaille has 35 goals. Canadians 8, North stars 0 Montreal Brent Gilchrist scored three More goals and Shayne Corson and Mike Mcphee each got two As Montreal won at the forum. Minnesota out shot Montreal 25-23, but Patrick Roy stopped All of them for his fifth shutout of the season and 18th of his seven year career. Gilchrist who had never scored More than nine goals in a season in his four year career has 20. Corson coming Back from a one game suspension imposed by the canadians after a barroom Brawl has 13 goals this season and Mcphee has 14. Cone Sierra seek records new York a new York mets Pitcher David Cone was looking for a record tuesday for highest salary in arbitration. Texas outfielder Ruben Sierra tried to set an even higher record when he argued his Case tuesday afternoon. Cone seeking $4.5 million appeared monday before arbitrator Nicholas Zumas and the sides argued for approximately 5v� hours. Cone made $2.35 million in 1991, when he went 14-14 with a 3.29 Era. The mets who Are offering $3 million compared the right hander to Doug Drabek of Pittsburgh who agreed at $4.5 million a $1.15 million raise. Last year Drabek established the arbitration record at $3.35 million. Coned a agents Stephen Fehr and Richard Moss compared their client to Chuck Finley of California who will average $4,625,000 in a four year Deal and to Greg Maddux of the Chicago cubs who signed for $4.2 million. Sierra who hit .307 last season with 25 homers and 116 Bis is asking for $5 million and the rangers Are offering $3.8 million. He made $2.65 million in 1991. A the rangers have indicated they re not interested in negotiating on a one year contract a said Chuck Berry one of the outfielders agents. Berry had proposed a $27.5 million five year Deal but withdrew the proposal Friday. Rangers president baseball arbitration Tom Schieffer has refused to consider guaranteeing a Deal of that length although general manager Tom Grieve was said to be in favor of accepting the offer. A there does no to seem to be any Point in considering Long term discussions a Berry said. A your feeling is Why done to you either Trade us or Well play out the year and go free agent after the coming year. Well certainly listen to anything they have to say but whether or not Well respond remains to be  owners Lead 10-5 in cases decided by hearings. Six More players settled on one year deals monday. Reliever Duane Ward and Toronto settled at $2,425,000, triple his 1991 salary of $800,000, while Ellis Burks and Boston agreed to $2.3 million a raise of $475,000. The outfielder can earn $170,000 More in bonuses if he plays 145 games. Right hander Tim Belcher and Cincinnati agreed at $2.1 million More than double his $900,000 salary last year with the los Angeles dodgers. Two Seattle pitchers agreed to contracts that tripled their salaries. Left hander Randy Johnson settled at $1,392,500, a raise of $1,012,500, and right hander Erik Hanson agreed to $1,345,000, a raise of $945,000. Reliever Jeff Montgomery and Kansas City agreed to $2.41 million double his $1,085,000 salary of 1991.spd wants jail for drug users Bonn up a the opposition social democratic party of Germany spa is to Call for prison sentences of up to two years for drug abuse in sports a party spokesman said tuesday in a newspaper interview. Wilhelm Schmidt told the West Aebische Mundschau daily that the Spda a parliamentary group would attempt to introduce a Law within weeks mainly directed against coaches and physicians. A the athletes would be Able to Clear themselves from charges very often for having been seduced a Schmidt told the daily saying it was mainly coaches and physicians who were behind doping. Schmidt Scall came in the Wake of Germany a latest doping scandal the suspension by the National track and Field federation div of world double world Champion Katrin Krabbe and two of her Neubrander Burg teammates for manipulating urine samples. However Walter Troeger general Secretary of the German olympic committee no spoke out against the spa proposal. A i do not believe in this initiative a he said in an interview with Rel radio in Luxembourg. Troeger said instead the sports federations should drastically increase the fight against drug abuse. In an Effort to make drug tests More efficient a Hamburg sports physician tuesday called for the introduction of blood tests. Dieter Baron head of a Lvi a anti doping commis Sion until the end of 1991, said that blood tests would Rule out the Type of manipulations allegedly carried out by Krabbe grit Breuer and Silke Moeller