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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, February 24, 1993

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes sports Impi Leafs Anderson joins 1,000 club in Toronto rout nil by the associated press Glenn Anderson joined the 1,000-Pointclub. Steve Yzerman is still waiting to get in. Anderson became the 36th player in nil history to score 1,000 Points when his goal and two assists led the Toronto Maple Leafs to an 8-1 rout of the canucks at Vancouver monday night. Only hours before Yzerman had pre sum ably scored his 1,000th with a third period assist in Detroit s 5-5 tie with Phil Adelphia. Following the game however the assist was Given to Steve Chiasson after officials re viewed a videotape at Yzerman s re quest. I Don t think 1 deserved it Yzerman said. I skated past the official scorer and told him 1 Don t think i touched the puck " Matt Pavolich nil supervisor of officials and two others changed the scoring. There s no Way he touched the puck Pavolich said lie said he did t want  Anderson assisted on goals by Nikolai apr Schcosky and John Cullen before scoring himself on a breakaway at 11 30 of the third period for his 17th goal of the season and 1,000th Point of his career. The game also featured another solid performance by Doug Gilmour who broke the Maple Leafs Standard for most assists in a season. Gilmour assisted on Power play goals by Dave Andrychuk Wendel Clark and Borschevsky to break the single season club record of 72 established by Darryl Sittler 15 years ago. The Leafs extended their unbeaten Streak to seven games 16-0-1 by dominating the canucks leaders of the smythe division. The win in the 61stgame, equated the Toronto total of 30 in 60 games last season. Toronto played sound defense by clog Ging the Neutral zone with checkers and jumped on the few scoring chances Cre ated off turnovers. That s our game plan Gilmour said. We re trying to play in your face hockey. At times it s a Boring game but it s ,4 the plan we be had Success  ill other games monday night redwing 5, flyers 5 Cleveland Yzerman scored his 999th Point on a goal in the second. The phantom assist came when Yzerman appeared to help get the puck out of the right Corner to Paul Coffey who relayed it across the ice to set up Dino Ciccarelli s second goal of the night. The flyers overcame deficits of 3-1and 5-3, sending the game into overtime when Brent Fidyk reached through a pile of bodies in front of the goal and punched the puck across with eight tenths of a second left in regulation. I crashed the net fedyk said. I just kept swinging the stick. I had a lot  Kings 5, lightning 2 Tampa Fla goaltender Rick Knickle making his second Start with los Angeles after 14 years in the minors won his first nil game with the help of a four Point night from Wayne Gretzky. Gretzky had a goal and three assists in support of the 33-year-old Knickle who made 43 saves. Knickle gave up seven goals thursday in a 7-2 loss at Chicago in his other Start. Tony Granato scored twice As the Kings won for the first time in three meetings with the expansion lightning. The loss was the fourth straight for the lightning. Thirteen previous years in the minor leagues in every Little town you can think of Riding those buses Knickle said. But it s Worth  jets 6, senators 3 Winnipeg Manitoba Thomas Stycn scored three goals As the jets handed the senators their 30th Road loss in As Many games. Sergei Bautin Darrin Shannon and Stu Barnes also scored for the jets who snapped a six game. Losing Streak. The jets 26-28-6 gained their last Point with a 4-4 tie in Ottawa on feb. 1. Darcy Loewn Brad Shaw and Jamie Baker scored for the senators 7-51-4who were 2-for-4 on the Power play and were close until the jets pulled away after the Midway Point of the third period. Flyers Ryan Mcgill winds up to punch wings Jim Hiller. Both players were penalized rangers 4, Sharks 0 Sacramento Calif. John Van Biesbrouck made 29 saves and Adam Graves scored two second period goals to Lead the rangers Over the Sharks. Mike Gartner and Peter Andersson each added two assists As new York won its third straight in the Neutral site game Only the second nil regular season game Ever held in Sacramento. While a crowd of 13,633 watched new York scored three times in the second period including Graves two scores 10minutes apart. Vanbiesbrouc who recorded his third shutout of the season and 15th of his Ca reer in regular season play was also i goal when the rangers opened their Road trip with a 6-4 Victory Over san Jose on saturday night. He has 62 saves in his last two  definitely was in focus Vanlies Brouck said. But the whole team played such Good defense we did t allow them Many  Taly skier wins Pursuit race Falun Sweden up1 Ste fania Belmondo of Italy shaking off the effects of recent dental surf Gery out skied the Field tuesday to win the two Day Pursuit Cross country race at the nordic world ski championships. Belmondo who was fifth sunday in the 5-Kilometer classic technique race that opened the two Day event finished with a two race time of 40 minutes 19.0 seconds. A whisker behind were russians Larissa la Shutina and Ljubov ego Rova. La Shutina the 5-km Winner finished in 40 19.4. Egorova took the Bronze medal in 40 19.7. Belmondo said she had a Wisdom tooth removed from each Side of her Mouth three weeks ago. R Canadian men score sweep by Mike Clark Winter Park Colo. A like the James gang knocking Over a Bank Thomas Grandi and fellow canadians Cary Mullen and Sean Valentine Rode into town monday and made off with All the medals and most of the Money in the men s giant slalom in the . Alpine championships. Grandi who won his second straight Canadian is title on saturday became the nominal Champion of North America with a combined time of 2 minutes 13.68seconds. Mullen Winner of the downhill and super giant slalom earlier in the Competition settled for second this time in 2 14.37, with Valentine runner up to Grandi in Canada taking third in2 14.73. "1 guess 1 let ii hang out that run the20-year-old Grandi said. He trailed Mullen the first run Leader by .6-4 seconds in the morning then had a run of 1 07.89 through a blinding Snow . Alpine skiing storm in the afternoon. Winds were gusting to 40 Mph and there was heavy Snow that occasionally limited visibility to 100 or so feet about the distance Between the is Gates. Canada had the top four spots after the opening run monday morning but had its dominance broken when Chris Puckett skied into fourth place in the afternoon in 2 14.74. That helped earn Puckett of Denver the combined title based on results in the downhill super Gas and slalom. Rob Crossan second in the slalom was nudged into fifth by Puckett. Ever since i was 18, 1 wanted to win the combined Puckett 22, said. But 1 kept falling in a slalom or doing some thing  it was the second Gold for the Ameri can men in a spirited week Long Battle with the canadians that ended in near stalemate. Canada had a 3-2 Edge in golds and an 8-7 advantage in medals american men won $25,250 to $24,750 for their Northern  Lone member of the Canadian women s team in these championships Lindsey Roberts won the downhill and was third in the super a and her $6,250increased Canada s total to $31,000 for five Days of  think we be had a big turnaround from last year Grandi said. Last Yea we came Here and i was the Best Guy in seventh. This year we re 1-2-3." Mullen took Home two golds and a Silver and $12,500. It was a great week for Canada he said. We proved we could compete with the states in every event. But Don t forget the americans they skied great too. It s great we have two Good teams in North America to go against Europe. Well learn from each other and   
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