European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 25, 1933 sports the stars to stripes 27 powerless penguins Bow to visiting devils by the associated press Pittsburgh Mario Lemieux is expected to come Back to the Pittsburgh penguins shortly. The Way they be been playing lately they can use him. Our Power play is terrible penguins Forward Rick Tocchet said following tuesday night s 3-1 loss at Home to the new Jersey devils. "1 Don t know if we have to go Back to the drawing Board or put new people out there. It s just been  s like we re All afraid to take shots. We re All try ing to make the perfect play. I m As guilty As  the penguins have hardly looked like the nil s top Power play team of late. Tuesday night they were held scoreless on eight manpower advantages and they have converted just two of their last 34 chances. The Power play has t been the same since Lemieux was sidelined by Hodgkin s disease last month. Lemieux last played on Jan. 5. He does t end his Radia Tion treatments until next tuesday but might come Back sooner than expected. The penguins would prefer he not play until the radiation process is Over but general manager Craig Pat Rick would not Rule Lemieux out of saturday s Home game against Tampa Bay. His situation is to be evaluated again on Friday. It s not a Lack of motivation Pittsburgh coach Scotty Bowman said of the penguins who have los four of their last five. Maybe it s the fact there was a lot of speculation that Mario might play. He was out for so Long. We re talking a two month ordeal before he s even Back.". With tuesday night s loss the Patrick division Lead ing penguins lost their Lead in the Overall Points race. The Adams leading Montreal canadians moved int first by a Point with a 5-1 Victory at St. Louis. Stephana Richer and Peter Stastny scored in the third period to Lead the devils. The slump is the worst of the season for the two time defending Stanley cup champions. In addition the penguins have lost consecutive Home games for the first time this season. New Jersey on a 4-1-1 Streak has won four consecutive Patrick division games for the first time this sea son. The devils were 1-4 against the penguins entering the game with 11 goals in the five games this season. In other games tuesday night canadians 5, blues 1 St. Louis Kirk Muller and . Daigneault scored third period goals 28 seconds apart for Mon Treal. With the canadians holding a 2-1 Lead Muller and Daigneault helped them pull away with their Quick goals. Muller s 29th came 41 seconds into the period on a re bound of a shot by defens Emari Shawn Hill. Daigneault added his eighth on a setup from Vincent  was the third straight win for the canadians who also got goals from Gilbert Dionne and John Leclair. Capitals 4, islanders 2 Uniondale . Washington extended its winning Streak to seven games As Dale Hunter Kelly Miller and Bob Carpenter each had a goal and an As Sist. The capitals also extended their winning Streak at the Nassau coliseum to four  Beaupre stopped 24 shots in winning his sixth consecutive Start. Nordques 6, oilers 3 Quebec Valeri Kamensky scored twice and assisted on Mike Ricci s go ahead goal one of four by Quebec in a Span of 5 46 in the third period As the Nordques notched their fifth straight Victory. Capitals goalie Don Beaupre exchanges a for Check with islanders Mike Vukota left in tuesday s game. The goals by Kamensky were his first since he re turned three games earlier from a broken ankle that had sidelined him since oct. 27. Steve Duchesne Joe Sakic and Owen Nolan also scored for the Nordques who arc 5-0-1 in their last six games. Esa Tikkanen scored two goals and Petr Kli Mahad the other for the oilers. Jets 8, senators 2 Saskatoon Saskatchewan Temu Velanne scored his 46th goal to break Winnipeg s record for goals in a season by a Rookie As Winnipeg swamped Ottawa. Sel Annc s second period goal broke Dale Hawer Chuck s Mark of 45 set in the 1980-81 season. It also lefts Elanne just seven shy of Mike Bossy s nil record of 53 goals in 1977-78 with the new York islanders. The jets won their second in a Row in As Many nights against the lowly senators 7-52-4. Winnipeg struck Early and often As the jets extended the senators losing Streak to six games. Flames 6, Sharks 3 Daly City Calif. The orc Fleury and Joe in Ouwendyk each scored two goals As the flames broke a four game wingless Streak 0-2-2. The Sharks put on a Bette performance than the last time the teams met on feb. 10 when they suffered a 13 1 loss to the flames the worst in their two year history. $7 million awarded to Bosworth Seattle a former Seattle sea Hawks linebacker Brian Bosworth is entitled to collect $7 million in insurance for the career ending shoulder injury he suffered in 1989, a Federal jury ruled tuesday. Lloyd s of London had argued that Bosworth s career was ended by arthritis. The . District court jurors deliberated a total of about 10 hours after receiving the Case Friday following a 10-Day trial. After the verdict was read an emotional bos. Worth hugged Katherinc Nicastro the Mother of his 14-Rrionth-old daughter Alcoa Bosworth. It s not the monetary thing at All. To me this was More of a Case of principle. I played this game because i loved it he said. Attorneys for Lloyd s said they had not decided whether to Appeal. We re going to take a very close look at that Over the next month or so attorney Tom Merrick said. Lloyd s had argued that Bosworth s 3-year, 25 game nil career was ended by arthritis. What really brought about his permanent disability was not that one play but cars of an accumulative effect of Ostegar thetis Merrick had told jurors. His career in effect was ended by an eroding disease not covered by Bosworth s policies. Bosworth s lawyer Henry Jameson disagreed. There in t any evidence not a shred of Evi Dence that his injury was caused by degenerative arthritis Jameson had told the court. Jameson said Bosworth s career came to an end on sept. 17,1989, in a game against the Phoenix cardinals when Bosworth was 23. Bosworth dam aged his right shoulder while making an Arm tackle on running Back Ron Wolfley. Bosworth failed to pass the club s physical examination at its 1990 Camp and was released. Jameson showed the jury a videotape of bos Worth s final game. The 27-year-old Bosworth who told the court he was an unemployed actor living in piano Texas broke Down and wept when he watched the videotape in  s attorneys sought $7 million from Lloyd s payoffs on two insurance policies Worth $5.1 million taken out on his behalf by the sea Hawks plus 12 percent interest. As a condition to signing with the sea Hawks in 1987, Bosworth s agent Gary Wichard required that the sea Hawks take out insurance to cover the possibility of a career ending injury. In a separate claim also being decided by the jury the sea Hawks were seeking $218,750 from Lloyd s for the loss of Bosworth during the 1989 season. The sea Hawks had a temporary total disability insurance policy on Bosworth with Lloyd s. Sea Hawks attorney Oruci Johnson said that claim plus interest Likely would result in about $300,000 for the team. Bosworth was an All american at Oklahoma and won the Butkus award As the nation s top line Backer. Seattle signed him to a series of 10 one year contracts for a total of $11 million. The sea Hawks still do not Grant guaranteed contracts. Bosworth got a $2.5 million signing Bonus from the sea Hawks and earned salaries of $300,000, $400,000 and $500,000 in his three seasons. Mice of the ice Disney plans nil team in Anaheim next season los Angeles a it appears More and More Likely that the Walt Dis  nil expansion team will begin play ing next .  a published report the Disney and Ogden entertainment companies Are close to a lease that would pave the Way for the team to begin play at the Anaheim Arena in october. We re looking at wrapping it up this week Anaheim City manager James d. Ruth told the los Angeles times. I thought we might be Able to Lell you something today we re so close so close we re Down to three issues one of which is substantive but we re very of  the Anaheim City Council met for about 90 minutes in closed session tues Day to discuss lease negotiations and a special session has been called for Friday afternoon. After the meeting an announcement is expected on the hockey team. Asked what the team s chances of Start ing next season were councilman Fred Hunter said i would say 90  there were reports earlier this month that negotiations Between the two Compa Nies had broken Down and that the team would not begin play until the 1994-95 sea son. But As the nil s monday deadline for informing the league of its intentions approaches the two parties appear to have moved closer to an agreement. We be been working incredibly Long hours and i m optimistic for the first ," a Disney source who declined to be identified told the times