European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bruins sweep series Boston up a Andy Moog i stopped 26 shots in route to his third Ca Greer shutout and Dave Poulin broke a scoreless tie Midway through the second period saturday night lifting Boston to a 2-0 Triumph Over Montreal and giving the Bruins a four game sweep in their Stanley cup playoff quarterfinal series the first suffered by the canadians since 1952. Montreal was taken out in three straight by Buffalo in a 1983 Best of five 1 playoff series. The Bruins had not swept Montreal in the playoffs since 1929. With the game scoreless in the second and Boston on a Power play Poulin waisted Adam Oates rebound past Ca Nadien goaltender Patrick Roy off a scramble at 12 08. Poulin set up Peter Douriso empty net Ter with two minutes left in the third to close out the scoring. Moog playing in his 100th career play i off game set the games tone when he stopped Brent Gilchrist on a breakaway in the first. The Bruin goaltender stopped nine Montreal shots in the third to preserve the shutout. He has surrendered just 28 goals in 11 playoff games. Roy who yielded some weak goals in the series stopped 29 of 31 Boston shots. An anaemic Power play and an inability i to win away from the Montreal forum was the undoing of the canadians. They connected just once in 18 postseason Power play opportunities and went 0-9-1 in their last 10 Road games. Monday May 11, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 25 Bruins Joe Juneau Flics along the boards after being checked by canadians a Mathiu Schneider left and Shayne Corson. Alfrancis 3 goals boost penguins past rangers % Pittsburgh a maybe somebody should Tell Ron Francis that one player Isnit supposed to be Able to replace Mario Lemieux. Francis scored three goals a including the game Winner at 2 47 of overtime a to rally the Pittsburgh penguins to a 5-4 Victory Over the new York rangers on saturday night and deadlock the Patrick division finals at two wins apiece. With Pittsburgh on an overtime Power play resulting from Jeff Beuke Boom a holding penalty Larry Murphy took the puck away from Mark Messier in the right Circle and Slid it at the net where Francis tipped it past goaltender John Van Biesbrouck. Francis replacing the injured Lemieux on the penguins top line scored three of their last four goals As Pittsburgh withstood Messier a emotional return and two goals to even the series. Game 5 will be tonight in Madison Square Garden. Francis has five goals and an assist in two games since la Miuca went Down for the series in game 2 after being slashed by new Yorkus Adam Graves who is serving a four game suspension. A one individual can to replace Mario Lemieux. He Means too much to this hockey team a a Francis said. A a it a not just me replacing Mario it s a Bunch of Guys. When we got Down two goals we knew we had to come Back because we  afford to go Back there Down 3-1 in the  the penguins rallied from a 3-1 series deficit to beat Washington in the semifinals and were faced with going Down 3-1 to the no la a regular season Champion after Messier made it 4-2 by scoring 46 seconds into the third period. But Francis and Troy Loney scored less than two minutes apart after the penguins killed a five minute major penalty on Gord Roberts forcing the  retain Crown tigers Mark Messier left and Jeff Beuk Boom gang up on penguins Jaromir jagr. A Prague Czechoslovakia apr Sweden which barely made the final round won its second straight world hockey championship sunday with a 5-2 Victory Over Finland. Peter Forsberg Roger Hansson  Karlsson and Arto Blomsten four of 16 rookies on the Young swedish team All scored along with Mikael Andersson a late roster addition from the Hartford whalers. The swedes had to tie the United states 4-4 just to Clinch the fourth anti last quarterfinal spot from Pool a. Then they won 2-0 Over Russia before knocking out Switzerland 4-1 in the semifinals. Sweden is tied with Czechoslovakia with six titles on the All time list. The soviet Union tops the list with 22 wins and Canada is second with 10. Earlier Czechoslovakia overcame a second period rally by Switzerland to win the Bronze medal game 5-2