European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday. February 3,1993 Page 30 a the stars and stripes . Teams b intense tie. By the associated press Uniondale by. When is a tie not like kissing your sister when the new York rangers play the new York islanders in a rugged Patrick division game. It was a hard fought game with a lot of intensity islanders Forward Steve Thomas said after a 4 tie with the rangers monday night. We re in a heated Battle for a playoff Only two Points separate the third place Range Sand fifth place islanders in the hottest playoff race in the nil at least from second place on Down. The Pittsburgh penguins Are the runaway leaders with a 17 Point Lead Over Washington. All the people in the Patrick division will see High no Tempo hockey for the rest of the Job season Arbour said. Everyone Emma is battling for the playoff spot and the ones who Benefit most from this Are the Pierre Turgeon scored twice including the tying goalie the second period and he added two assists for the tie extended the rangers futility at the Nassau coliseum where they Are wingless in 13 games 0-10 since a 4 Victory oct. 28,1989. The islanders extend their Streak to 5 in their last eight contests and goaltender Mark Fitzpatrick who made 20 saves extended his personal unbeaten Streak to seven 5 Mike Gartner earlier in the Day named As a replace ment for injured teammate Mark Messier in this week end s nil All Star game scored twice for the rang ers. Lightning 5, Sharks 4 Daly City Calif. Rob Dimaio scored a pair of coals and Mark Bureau had four assists in the Light Ning s Victory Over the Sharks who set a franchise re Cord with their 14th consecutive loss. The lightning 9-18 away from Home equated thenal record for Road wins by an expansion team Matching the nine wins by the 1967-68 St. Louis blues and 1972-73 Atlanta flames. After Johan grape nov narrowed Tampa Bay s Lea to one with his ninth goal 1 10 into the third period Chris Kontos scored what proved to be the game win Ner on a shot from the Point at 6 53. Jets 4, senators 4 Ottawa Laurie Boschman scored on a penalty shot in the third period As the senators rallied from a three goal deficit to tie the jets. The usually hapless senators 1 in their last 11cames, were behind 3 late in the second period but. Fought Back for the tie and Only the 14th Point of their first season 5-46 Ottawa s comeback started at 14 32 of the second period with a shorthanded goal by Mark Freer. Mar Lamb scored two minutes later. Bob Kudelski tied it with a Power play goal Early in the third period. Stu Barnes put Winnipeg ahead 46 seconds later when sports so a Ai a t a or a,-.," s " v s o % a a a ,. Ii of of a blues Igor Korolev pins Dave Mcllwain against boards As the Toronto player reaches for puck at St Louis monday. He flicked a rebound that came off the boards past Ottaw goalie Daniel Berthiaume. Then Jet defens Eman Sergei Bautin dragged Down Boschman on a breakaway an Boschman beat goalie Mike o Neill at 5 31. Blues 1, Maple Leaf s1 St. Louis Brendan Shanahan of St. Louis an Nikolai Borchevsky of Toronto traded first period goals As St. Louis and Toronto Maple Leafs stayed four Points ahead of St. Louis in the race for the fourth playoff spot in the nor Ris division and remained unbeaten against the blues at 3. North stars 5, canucks 4 Vancouver British Columbia Mike Modan scored two goals and assisted on three others to Lead the North stars Over the , drafted first Overall in 1988, assisted on two goals by Ulf Dahlen and another by James Black. Minnesota goaltender Darcy Zakaluk played steady game Vancouver out snot the North stars 42 21 As his team won for the 14th time on the Road two More than last Linden Garry Valk Ryan Walter and Adrie Plavsic scored for Vancouver As the canucks saw their wingless Streak reach five games 0. Seitzer moves to a a b. Ripken joins rangers Blum new York no Kevin Sei Zeris joining the Oakland athletics and Billy Ripken is joining the Texas rang , who hit .270 for Milwaukee last season with five homers and 71rbis, agreed monday to a non Guaran teed one year contract for the $109,000 the third baseman makes the open ing Day roster his salary would increase to $600,000 and he would get the Chance to earn $250,000 More in performance agreed to a minor league contract and the rangers invited him to Spring training. Ripken was let go by baseball sign mrs the Baltimore orioles in december after five seasons As their starting Sec Ond baseman. He hit .230 last year with four homers and 36 Bis. Meanwhile Pitcher Vincente Palac ios agreed to a minor league contract with the san Diego padres and salary arbitration hearings began when Markleske Andy Benes and Damn Jack son argued their cases in new York and los Angeles. At the same time Florida Marlin shortstop Walt Weiss and Seattle Mari Ner Pitcher Mike schooler avoided hearings by agreeing to one year con tracts. Weiss settled at $825,000, a $65,000 raise while schooler agreed to $800,000, the same salary he made Las season. Seventy six players remain in arbitration from the 120 originally in the pro Cess. Hearings continue through the first three weeks of february. Benes 13-14 with a 3.28 Era for the san Diego padres last season asked arbitrator William Gould to quadruple his salary to $2.05 million from $475,000.the padres offered $1.55 million. Jackson who hit .240 for the padres with 17 homers and 70 Bis asked arbitrator Reginald Alleyne to raise his salary to $2.1 million from $805,000. The team offered $1.5 million. Lemke asked arbitrator James Duff to award him $925,000, More than three times the $250,000 he made last year. The Atlanta braves offered $550,000 to Lemke who hit .227 last season with six homers and 26 Bis. Weiss traded to the marlins from Oakland right after november s expansion draft hit .212 with no homers and21 Bis in 103 games last season. He had asked for $1 million while the team had offered $750,000. Schooler was 2 with a 4.70 Era forthe mariners last season and asked for $1.1 million while the team offered$720,000
