European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 23, 1993 sports the stars and stripes b Page 33 capitals stay hot trip blues by the associated press Landover my. Since the nil All Star game the Washington capitals have looked like All stars. We seem to be taking advantage of our chances and the wins have started coming again said Washington Forward Mike Ridley after the capitals beat the St. Louis blues 5-2 sunday. It was the sixth straight Victory for the capitals since the break. Before that the capitals were wingless in five 0-3-2. I think we be been playing Well As a team for some time now Ridley said. It was getting frustrating there for a  Ridley scored two Power play goals and Don Beaupre set a capitals record for most career wins by a goaltender. Washington s winning Streak is one shy of its longest this season. Two of those victories have come at the expense of the blues by a combined margin of 15-8. Craig Janney and Brett Hull scored for St. Louis the Only blemishes on an otherwise routine 19-save performance by Beaupre who won for the 95th time in his capitals career to surpass Al Jensen s previous team record. In other games sunday penguins 4, whalers 3 Hartford Conn. Rick Tocchet and Joe Mullen scored Power play goals within a 2 45 Span late in the second period to help the penguins snap a season High three game losing  penguins overcame a three goal performance by Geoff Sanderson. Tocchet who scored twice tied the Chicago s Brian Noonan Falls to inc ice As he pushes the puck toward Calgary goalie Mike Vernon with Brent Ashton defending. Score at 2 at 15 26 on a deflection an Mullen connected from the left Circle at 18 11 to rally the penguins. Ron Francis assisted on both goals. Sanderson had his second hat trick of the season for the whalers to raise his team leading goal total to 29. Red wings 4, North stars 1 Bloomington Minn. Paul cof Fey and Steve Yzerman each had two assists and Tim Chevy Lac made 26 saves As the red wings Defeated the North stars. Coffey set up Power play goals by Sergei Fedorov and Keith Primeau giving the red wings a 2-0 Lead after two  North stars ended Chc Vildac s bid for a shutout on Dave Gagnor s Power play goal at 13 50 of the third period. Blackhawk 4, flames 3 Chicago  Jimmy wait returned to the nets with a spar Kling performance leading the Black Hawks Over the flames. Wait who Las played on Jan 27, made 20 saves including two in the last minute. Goals by Brian Noonan and Christian Uuttu Early in the third period had Given the Blackhawk a 4-1 Lead. Nordques 6, devils 3 East Rutherford . Mar tin Rucinsky and Mats Sundin scored 25 seconds apart in the second period As the Nordques won their fourth straight. Owen Nolan had two goals and two assists As the Nordques stretched their unbeaten Streak to five games 4-0-1. Alexander Scomak had two goals for new Jersey. Canad Lens 4, oilers 3 Montreal John Lcclair scored two goals and set up another to Lead the canadians Over the oilers. Berlin olympic foes release horror film by Randy Harvey the los Angeles times International olympic committee members Are expected to receive a film soon in the mail. Bud Green Span s "16 Days of glory it s not. Produced by a group calling itself nory pics which consists of opponents of Berlin s bid for the 2000 summer games the film includes a scene of a masked demonstrator throwing an object toward the camera. An ominous voice warns we will wait for  the film is part of a Campaign by anarchists leftists environmentalists polio icons and residents who have coordinated their efforts for various Rea sons. Chief among them is their belief that berliners should spend their Money and Energy on solving the eco nomic and political crisis caused by the reunification of West and East Germany. Olympics preaches non Vio Lence but other opposition groups have not been converted. Tires on cars bearing the olympic logo have been slashed and the offices of a priming company contracted by the he committee were set on fire. The Irson its left a note that said whoever plays with the olympic rings gets their fingers  anti olympic groups have a history of effectiveness contributing to the derailment of summer games bids by Nagoya Japan for 1988, Amsterdam Holland for 92 and Toronto for 96. Demonstrators from Toronto known As bread not circuses camped out in a tent in the lobby of a Swank Tokyo hotel during the Ioc vote in 1990. But nory pics could be accused of piling on. Considered the favorite when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the City s bid has faltered because of the Lack of local support. Only recently was the bid committee Able to announce that one its polls indicate More support than opposition for its efforts. Although not identified As a Mem Ber of any organized group one of the most prominent opponents of Berlin s olympic bid is Tennis Star Boris Becker. He does not believe that the olym pics should return to the City used by Adolf Hitler to flaunt the third Reich during the 1936 summer games. In other olympic news the . Olympic committee reports that four cities Boston Miami new Orleans and St. Louis already have begun campaigns for the 2004 summer Roffe see Trotter wins Stormy giant slalom by Mike Clark Winter Park Colo. A Diann Roffe Stcin Rotler Julie parisian and Heidi Voclker have seen bad skiing conditions on Many occasions. I grew up in the East. Enough said said Roff Stein Rotter who overcame the weather to win the . Women s giant slalom title Here sunday j Sugarloaf the worst you an it said Parisien a native of Auburn Maine. A couple of the coaches up top were giving some of the Western coaches Ahard time because they say it s always sunny out West Voelker a Pittsfield mass., resident said. Weather More than racing was the topic of conversation on sunday As the women braved blizzard conditions temperatures in the teens and a wind chill Factor ofminus-25 in the women s giant slalom of the . Alpine championships. Roffe Stein Rotter a 10-year Veteran of the . Ski team took a satisfying Ste Forward in what has been a frustrating sea son by winning the women s giant slalom at the . Alpine championships. She completed two runs in 2 minutes 8.04 seconds. Parisien was second in 2 09.12 and Voelker a slalom specialist from Pittsfield mass., was third in 2 09.57. Everybody agreed it was cold More than a few thought it was unfair and a few wondered at the lunacy of trying to race at All in such conditions. Had this been world cup event it surely would have been postponed. One of the forerunners whose Job it is . Alpine skiing to ski Down the course and Tell the referee if it is suitable racing came away mutter ing i Don t know what they re thinking about up  that about summed up the feelings of Picabo Street of Sun Valley Idaho who won a Silver medal in the combined event in the recent world Alpine ski championships in Japan. They had to run it because we re Leav ing for Europe tomorrow but it s not a fair race Street said. There is a slight Dan Ger Factor i would say because it s coming in gusts. It was blowing about half this much in Japan and they cancelled  Edith Thys of Squaw Valley calif., was the top Westerner in the Field claiming fourth in 2 09.69. Carrie Sheinberg of port Washington n.y., second in saturday s slalom was fifth sunday in 2 11.71. Although Parisien the top american woman racer did t win an individual title she easily won the combined title with consistently High finishes in four races. She was seventh in the downhill second in both the super giant slalom and giant Sla Lom and third in the slalom. The combined Victory was Worth $5,000, giving her $ 11,250 for a week s work. Street the super a Winner was second in the combined and Kristi Terzian of Park City Utah was third. Ter Ian was the Sla Lom  final race of the week Long program was to be the men s giant Laloni on Mon Day