European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 1993 sports the stars and stripes b Page 33 stars hand Sharks loss in Row by the associated press Daly City Calif. The Sharks lost their 15th straight game Matching the second longest slide in nil history Dave Gagner had two goals and two assists for the North stars. The Philadelphia quakers also lost 15 straight in 1930-31. San Jose is within two losses of the nil s longest losing Streak set by the 11974-75 Washington capitals who fell 17 straight times. Mike Modaro and Mark Tinardi each lad a goal and two assists for Minnesota,1-2 in its past 10 games. The North stars 28-18-8 remained beaten in five games against the 2 year old san Jose franchise. They Haveit scored the Sharks 35-14 in those ice Tings. In other games wednesday night canucks 4, lightning 2 Vancouver left Wing Sergio Somesso and his canucks woke up from lumps. Somesso pointless in five pre Vious games scored twice to Lead Van Couver which had Only three ties to show for its previous five outings. Flyers 2, rangers 2 new York Philadelphia Rookie Tommy Soderstrom matched new York a Veteran John Vanbiesbrouc nearly shot Filo Dave Gagner. Sparks Minnesota for shot in a great goal ending Battle. Soderstrom a 5-foot-9 swedish import made 36 saves in one of his Best efforts in the nil. Soderstrom not Only was Good he was Lucky As two. Rangers shots hit the goal Post including Mike Gartner s in the final minute of overtime. Senators 3, oilers 2 Ottava Bob Kudelski scored twice As Ottawa Defeated Edmonton for its fifth nil Point in a Avick. Kudelski has 13 goals in 21 games since arriving in a Trade with the los Angeles Kings. More surprising the senators have two wins and a tic in their last four games. With a record of 6-46-4, that rep resents almost one third of Ottawa s total output in its first season. Flames 5, devils 4 East Rutherford . Joe lotto capped a three goal Calgary third period scoring with 6 24 to play As the flames won their fourth straight. Canad Lens 7, Kings 2 Montreal Kirk Muller scored two goals As the canadians went into the All Star break on a three game winning Streak. Mutter s 25th and 26th goals both came on Power plays As the canadians struck four times with the Man advantage. Islanders 3, Maple Leafs 2 Toronto Benoit Hogue score twice in the second period to spoil Felix Potvin s debut As the Maple Leafs no. 1 goalie. Potvin handed the no. 1 Iob tuesday when Grant Fuhr was traded to Buffalo As part of a three player Deal looked shaky on Hogue s 98th and 99th career goals. Sabres 3, whalers 2 j Buffalo . Alexander Mogil by scored his 50th goal of the season with 28 seconds left in the game and Gran Fuhr made 26 saves in his first game for Buffalo. Red wings 5, Blackhawk 0 Detroit Paul Coffey playing his first Home game As a red Wing had a goal and two assists. Bruins 4, Nordques 1 Quebec Don Sweeney scored two goals one Short handed and the other into an empty net in the closing seconds As the Bruins snapped the Nordi quest five game unbeaten  Kvarta nov s Power play goal at 18 24 of the second period was the win Ner. Glen Featherstone provided the Bruins with a 3-1 Cushion scoring his fourth of the season before Sweeney extended the margin finding the empty net with 13 seconds to play. Blues 4, jets 2 Winnipeg Manitoba Craig Jan  scored a pair of goals As the St. Louis blues ran their unbeaten Streak to six games. Brett Hull also scored and had two assists including setting up the game Winner by Ron Sutler Early in the third period. Hagler tribute called off after assault Story Boston a a tribute to former Middle weight boxing Champion Marvin Hagler has been cancelled after a newspaper column focused at Tention on his 1991 conviction for assaulting his  treasurer Joseph Malone honorary co chairman of a Charity dinner that was to have honoured Hagler urged the event s sponsors to drop the Boxer from the program after Reading column in wednesday s Boston Globe. Such violence far too prevalent in today s society should not and must not be tolerated Malone said in a statement. By withdrawing  s name we Are sending a Clear and unmistakable message that Domestic violence has no place in our  the column by Bella English recounted details of Hagler s assault on Lisa Pilagonia of Revere who had dated Hagler for about 18 months be fore the attack. Pilagonia said when she met Hagler one Day in1990 at the bostonian hotel he lifted her by the shoulders hit her in the jaw then stepped on Herback when she fell to the ground Pilagonia told the Globe her jaw was dislocated in the attack and that she still suffers pain from the injury. She also said she still owes $15,000 in medical Bills Hagler formerly of Brockton pleaded guilty to the assault in december 1991 in Boston Muni Cipal court. He was placed on probation and or dered to perform 100 hours of Community serv  assault and Hagler s conviction had been previously reported in the Media. But officials of the association for Commer Cial real estate sponsor of the Black tie event to Honor Hagler said they Only Learned of the Inci Dent in wednesday s newspaper column. David Begelfer the association s Massachusetts director said plans for fight night 11, a Chanty dinner scheduled for feb. 26 in Boston had been underway for the past year. He said the world boxing Council approached the association two months ago with a proposal for a Hagler tribute. In return the Council would donate $10,000 to the Charity event. Morris Goldings Hagler s attorney did not immediately return a phone Call placed to his of fice late wednesday. Throwing Marge to the Sharks game s Jim Litke Chicago a Marge is gone. The problem in  was kicked out of baseball by her fellow owners wednesday when executive Council chairman Bud Selig formally announced what had been the game s worst kept secret of the new year that Schott was suspended from operating her Cincinnati club for one year fined $25,000 for conduct attitude and most damning per haps projecting an image not in the Best interests of , the same people who suspended Schott appeared to have no clearer notion of what that image should be. Asked whether the decision would soften the Glare this episode has cast on baseball s sorry minority hiring and recruitment policies Schlig gave this curious response the first part of that ques Tion is very subjective and i can t answer that tonight he said. "1 think we All understand what baseball has to do relative to its image but that was not the basis for this decision. The basis was not image or sizzle or what people on the outside will think. This is what people who spent Many years in the game Felt was Best Tor a institution that we care very much about.". If the Point of this exercise in political correctness then was intended solely to punish Schott for holding uninformed opinions about people that is Fine obviously she could learn to make constructive use of the time. And the memory of the Money lost should be enough of a disincentive to keep her own counsel on such matters in the future. She is very upset and very depressed i Don t mean this in the clinical sort of Way that she has been singled out Schott s attorney Robert Bennett said. She has apologised for what she admittedly has said on occasion. She feels Many others in baseball a to z made similar  however if the owners think this trumped up display of throwing Marge to the Sharks makes the rest of them look More enlightened then they have miscalculated badly. Because their record in such matters which is precisely what forced their hand on Schott in the first place will get them in trouble again. And it will Hap pen Long before Marge s banishment a very unpopular move in Cincinnati judging by the Calls to local radio shows  a dimming memory. Numbers Don t lie. A study Dune last july set the per commentary Cen tags of Black and hispanic players on opening Day rosters at around 30 percent. As of december the same figure for the commissioner s staff was 24 per cent but just 17 percent by the time you started looking around the front offices of the teams themselves. Both numbers were bolstered by the inclusion of secretarial and clerical help. And even More deflating is the fact that nearly All of those meager advances we remade in the first two years after the juror that followed Al Campay necessities remarks in 1987. The Lone Bright spot in the picture today is that Lixfield managers next season will be Black or hispanic. But that too loses much of its Luster when you add that every one of the general managers they will report to and just about everybody else up the ladder fro there is White. Sometimes the grand gesture has its place. You have Only to think Back to the nil s decision to move the super bowl just played to Pasadena from Phoenix be cause Arizona voters refused at the time to approve a Holiday to Honor Martin Luther King or. And so the thinking in baseball May be that getting Marge out of the picture will buy the current owners some time too. But that s probably nothing More than Wishful thinking. What happened wednesday hardly dissipated the anger that has been building in recent months. I know Marge is laughing All the Way to wherever itis she is going said Henry Aaron a senior vice presi Dent with the Atlanta braves and one of the few Blac executives in major league baseball. She won this one. I am very much disappointed. That just gives everybody else the owners the right to do and say what they want Aaron said. Nobody is going to attack one of their own Peers. It s a  several months Back Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow coalition on fairness in athletics asked baseball s owners to come up with very specific affirmative action programs. To Date no More than a handful have both ered to respond. Ironically because of Sciott s Well publicized problems the reds were one of the few clubs that did. Sacrificing Schott will make a big Public splash but it will be the endless Ripples of ongoing discontent boy Cotts threatened and Boycotts Canneil out that finally drives Home to the owners How deep the problem runs Liy then it will have dawned on them that getting Marge out of sight was not the end of their problem Only the beginning