European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 1,1993 sports the stars and stripes Page 33scoresin by Bob Green Mauna Lan Hawaii a with a Fine sense of drama Arnold Palmer saved the Best until the last saturday Over the first nine holes of the senior skins game. With a Fine sense of humor Chi Chi Rodriguez explained How and Why he let Arnold escape with a 10-foot Birdie putt Worth $50,000. Palmer at 63 the oldest of the four legends from the Over-50 circuit competing in the two Day 18-holc, made for television event was facing a shutout until his breakthrough on the last Hole. A tin very fortunate to have had the Opportunity and fortunate i was Able to do something with it a he said. Palmer s Good Fortune came on a bad break for Rodriguez the irrepressible puerto rican whose Quick wit and on course commentary on subjects ranging from politics to pantyhose served As a highlight of the proceedings. Rodriguez s 35-foot Chip shot for a Birdie-4 a which would have eliminated Palmer from any Chance of winning the final Hole a hit the Back of the cup and spun out. A a i should have left the pin in Quot Rodriguez said. Quot if i leave the pin in the Ball stays in Why Palmer asked did Rodriguez remove the Flag before the Chip. A straight faced Chi Chi responded in be made 26 holes in one. I did t have the pin out on any of  Rodriguez who replaced Lee Trevino in this four Man Field won $25,000 with a 10-foot Birdie putt on the seventh Hole. Jack Nicklaus won $30,000 despite what he called Quot one of the worst nine holes in be Ever played Quot and Ray Floyd pocketed $60,000. The final nine holes with another $285,000 up for grabs was scheduled sunday at the Mauna Lani resort. Floyd the 50-year-old who last year became the first Man to win on both the regular tour and the senior circuit in the same season easily played the Best. Quot except for the third Hole 1 was in it All Oay. I had a Chance for Birdie on every other Hole Quot he said. And he made three of them on putts of 25, 5 and 20 feet on the first fourth and sixth holes. New York islander goaltender Glenn Healy positions himself to Stop a wrist shot by Boston s Adam Oates on saturday. Coffey quickly takes Wing in first Outing for Detroit a a-71 by the associated press Vancouver British Columbia Paul Coffey making his first Start for Detroit assisted on two goals As the red wings tied the Vancouver canucks 4-4. Coffey the no la Sall time scoring Leader on defense was obtained in a six player Trade Friday with the los Angeles Kings. Detroit s Bob Probert broke a 3-3 tie at 16 14 of the second period with his ninth goal of the season with help from Paul Ysebaert and Coffey. Then Gariy Valk scored at 15 09 of the third period for the canucks. In other games saturday devils 2, blues 2 St. Louis a Stephane Richer scored his 17th goal and added an assist As new Jersey tied St.  4, North stars 3 Bloomington Minn. Wendell Young called up from the minor leagues earlier in the Day made 34 saves As Tampa Bay ended Minnesota a seven game unbeaten  Leafs 3, rangers 1 Toronto a Doug Gilmour continued his Chase of two club records scoring once and setting up another goal to spark Toronto Over injury riddled new York. Saturday in the nil Gilmour who will play in his first nil All Star game next weekend is on Pace to break Darryl Sitter s Benchmark for assists 72 and Points 117. Gilmour has 55 assists in 51 games during which he has accumulated 74 Points. The rangers were missing Center Mark Messier and defens Emen Brian Leetch Jay Wells James Patrick and  because of injury. In addition Center Randy Gilhen was knocked out of the game with a knee  6, whalers 3 Hartford Conn. A Rookie standout Temu Velanne became the third player in the nil to reach the 40-goal plateau and Alexei Zha  scored a shorthanded goal late in the second period to snap a tie As Winnipeg beat Hartford Zha  also assisted on two other goals As the jets 25-22-5 snapped a two game losing Streak after going 13-1-2 since dec. 27. Pat Verbeek had his fourth two goal game of the season for the whalers 3-14-1 since dec. 23.bruins 6, islanders 5 Uniondale . Rookie goal tender John Blue with the help of a key third period goal from Ray Bourque gained his first Road Victory in the nil As Boston stopped new York s six game unbeaten  2, Blackhawk 2 a Inglewood Calif. Jeremy Roe Nick set up a goal by Michel Goulet and scored his 30th of the season with 5 27 left in the third period to pull Chicago into a tie with los  5, Sharks 4 Daly City Calif. Calgary a Joel Otto scored the winning goal with less than three minutes remaining and added two assists As Calgary beat san Jose. Calgary won its second straight game while san Jose a last inthe smythe division with the nil s second worst record 6-44-2 a is wingless in its last 16  4, flyers 2 Pittsburgh the Pittsburgh penguins turned on their slumbering Power play with goals from Kevin Ste reps Ron Francis and Shawn Mceachern to beat Philadelphia extending their two year unbeaten Streak against the flyers to 14  5, senators 3 Montreal the Montreal Ca Nadies scored four first period goals and then held off Ottawa dropping the senators to 0-26-0 on the Road. Capitals extend Home unbeaten Streak to 13 by the associated press Landover my. A Chalk up another unbeaten month at Home for the Washington capitals. The capitals extended their unbeaten Streak to a club record 13 games sunday with a 2-2 tie against Pittsburgh. Washington is 9-0-4 at the capital Centre since . 20, outscoring the opposition 63-43, the unbeaten string surpasses the previous High set in no Marks the first time Washington Nas gone two straight months without a Home loss. In sundays Olther games sunday in the nil canadians 6, flyers 4 Montreal a Gary Leeman scored his first two goals for the canadians As Montreal ended a five year Home wingless Streak against Philadelphia. Montreal Hadnot Defeated Philadelphia at Home since . 7, 1987, going 0-5-3. Paul Dipietro called up from the minors on thursday scored his first goal of the season and added an assist for the canadians. Gilbert Dionne Denis Savard and Stephan Lebeau also scored for Montreal. Montreal coach Jacques Demers gained his 300th nil Victory. His nine year record is 300-304-91.oilers sabres 4, of Buffalo . A Kelly Buchberger scored three goals including the game Winner 46 seconds into overtime As Edmonton oilers rallied past Buffalo. Buchberger put the final goal past goaltender Tom Draper after Craig Mactavish was foiled on a wraparound attempt. Buffalo led 4-2 in the third before a pair of goals by defens Eman Geoff Smith