European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday february 10, 1993 sports the stars and stripes Page 33 devils goaltender Craig Billington makes a save As rangers Sergei Nam chinos attempts to tip puck into net in monday night s game. Sabres fall into Ottawa trap North. Stars add Dallas to move list. St. Paul Minn. A bids by tar de Center in Minneapolis and the St. Paul civic Center weren t Good enough so North stars owner Norm Green says he has added Dallas to his list of possible new Homes for the nil team. I m terribly disappointed that neither bid had a season ticket concept even though we be talked about the importance of that for 2tt years Green said sunday As he left the nil Board of governors meet ing in Montreal. No one in Minneapolis or St. Paul has assured me that our crowds will be bigger or that ticket prices could be supported atthe nil level if the North stars move from met Center in Bloomington Green said.4 no one in the twin cities made a proposal that included the support of the City and the business Community something where they said Well get behind you and share the risk they want us to take All the risk Green said. The stars have sold Only about 5,300 season tickets. By United press International Ottawa a game against the expansion Ottawa senators looked alot More like an extended All Star break to the Buffalo sabres. So they took monday night off. It looked like an easy game but we fell into the trap said sabres assistant coach Don lever following Ottawa s 4-2 Triumph Over Buffalo. You look at them and they have just 16 Points. We got caught in a game of defens Eman Norm Maciver scored a Power play goal with 4 30 left in the third period to snap a tie helping the senators put together Back to Back wins for the first time in their inaugural season. Maciver picked up the puck from a scramble in front and fired a shot into the top left Corner Over Grant Small s empty Netter one minute left capped a four goal comeback and sealed Ottawa s seventh Victory. The senators improve to a franchise Best 3-1-1 in their last five games. The senators who entered the game with the league s worst Power play 11.6 percent connected on two of six chances against a Buffalo team that came into the game with the nil s third Best penalty killing unit at 84 percent. The sabres who had won four of their last five entering monday s game Are Only 7-16-4 away from Buffalo auditorium where they Are 20-5-2. The senators one of the league s worst skating teams beat Buffalo to Loose pucks All night to rally from a 2-0 deficit. The game figured to provide explosive sabres like Alexander Mogiln and Pat la Fontaine with a shooting gallery but the sabres fearsome offence never got rolling. Our Best players could not get a flow going said lever who is filling in for the vacationing John Muckler. They got too Many Power the sabres put up a 2-0 Lead in a hurry with Randy Wood scoring just 16 seconds into the game and Yuri Kim lev following with a goal at 6 32. But four Ottawa Power plays in the second period took their toll on the sabres penalty killers and the offence never found itself again. Mark Freer s shot on the Power play late in the first bounced in off goaltender Grant Fuhr s stick to Cut it to 2-1. Andrew me Bain tied it with 6 16 left in the third. In other games monday night devils 5, rangers 4 East Rutherford . De Senseman Ken Paneyko and Alexander Semak scored goals 1 35 apart in the third period and Valeri pc Lepkin collected three assists to help new Jersey snap a wingless Streak at five games. The devils also moved within a Point of the third place rangers in the Patrick division. New York s Mike Gartner scored career goal no. 574, moving him past Mike Bossy and into sixth place on the All time nil goal scoring list. New Jersey s Craig Billington made 26 saves. Penguins 4, Bruins 0 Atlanta Kevin Stevens scored twice in the first period and Ken Wren get and Tom Barrasso combined on a shut out in a Neutral site game. Arc Ggut was forced to leave the game with 4 42 left after he was hit in the head by a shot. Barrasso recovered from Chic Ken pox and playing in his first game since Jan. 9, finished up. Jaromir jagr notched three assists for the two time defending Stanley cup champions who improved to 4-1-1 in their last six. All Star dec Nicman Ray Bourque was playing in his 1,000th nil game for the Bruins. Blues 3, whalers 1 Peoria Iii. Brendan Shanahan scored twice and Curtis Joseph stopped 31, including 13 in the third period to extend the blues unbeaten Streak to seven games 5-0-2. Sean Burke made 30 saves for Hart Ford which has lost four in a Row. The Neutral site game played before 9,013 fans in Peona was As originally to do played in december at Birmingham ala., but was rescheduled in Peoria due to poor ticket sales. Tickets is How fans secure any franchise Green said. The costs too High for me to be patient and wait to gradually convert our fans into season ticket holders. If our costs were closer to our income maybe then 1 could wait three or four or five Green said he hoped to make a Long term decision on the team s future homely late february or Early March. Possible relocation of the North stars was not discussed at the nil Board of governors meeting Green said. Although Green has visited Dallas twice in the past two weeks he said he would prefer to stay at met Center or move somewhere in Minnesota. My last Choice is to go somewhere else he said. We need to pay our Over head and we deserve the Opportunity to make a living. In anticipation of the continued difficulty of doing that at met Cen Ter we Are exploring the offers from the target Center and civic Center As Well As other All Star to rating Down new York a overnight rat Ings for the nil All Star game were Down for the third consecutive year . Nielsen co. Said monday. The Wales conference s 16-6 Victory Over the Campbell conference on sat urday got a 3.3 overnight rating on and an 8 share. The All Star game got a 4.4 rating on in 1990, followed by a 4.0 in 1991 and a 3.4 last year. The overnight rating is taken from 27 markets. Lawyer for acquitted Lindros says he was victim -. Iti Xin Iii i Oshawa Ontario a police prosecutors and sexual politics combined to make Eric Lindros the real victim of a nightclub Beer fight his lawyer charged monday after the hockey sensation was acquitted of common assault. The charge that he spat and poured Beer on a woman at a bar probably never would have made it to court if the alleged victim was a Man said lawyer Earl Levy. Public sentiment was whipped up against Eric and i think in was highly inappropriate he said. I Hodros 19, said the Case has t done him much Good but said he had no reason to apologize for what happened and was t about to stay Home every night. I m a kid like to do the things that kids do Aid the Philadelphia flyers million Dollar Rookie. 1-Evy said the Lindros family is Ery concerned the Way he was treated and is considering taking action against Durham regional police. Judge Rhys Morgan of the provincial division of on Tario court found Lindros not guilty of assaulting factory worker Lynn Nunney 24, last nov. 29. Nunney s testimony was Clear and unequivocal about the incident. But defense evidence raised a reasonable doubt Morgan told a packed courtroom. The judge also noted that Many minor crimes never Are prosecuted and suggested Nunney s charge could have been resolved without going to trial. Lindros whose s3.5 million a year salary makes him one of the Best paid players in the nil suggested the Case has bruised his reputation "1 wonder who the real victim is he asked. Being accied of something of did t commit and gaining that much Media attention 1 Don t think does anybody by i Lindros Mother Bonnie broke into tears outside the courtroom saying the allegations had ruined the family s Christmas. The Point is it should t have been in court in the first place said Carl Lindros Erie s father. Prosecutor Lisa Grant refused comment and nun Ney could t be reached for comment. Nunney testified that Lindros soaked her with Beer for no apparent reason on the dance floor Lindros told the court she started the spat by pouring Beer on him and he Only retaliated by sprinkling Beer on her. Levy suggested Lindros ended up in court because Nolano prosecutors sensitive toward allegations of violence against women almost always will proceed with criminal charges if the complainant is female. He also said police needlessly issued an Aust War rant effectively telling the world Lindros was a wanted Man instead of making Pii Vale Arange Jents for him to turn himself in
