European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 38 a a a a thai stars and stripes sports saturday december 4, 1993 amp to Start blowing. By the associated press. The regular nil referees and linesmen were Back after a 17-Day strike and the players coaches and fans were glad to see inc Nethat is until the whistles began blowing in Miami the Buffalo sabres though they Haa scored the go ahead goal with 2 05 left thursday night when Derek Plante knocked the puck out of John Van bics Broucke a Glove and into the net. But the score was nullified by referee Mark Faucette and Buffalo wound up losing 2-1 in overtime. Quot obviously he thought he had it under control in his hand which he did no to Sabre coach John luckier said. Quot its All Over if they would have counted that  in Boston the Bruins scored a pair of Power play National hockey league coals in taking a 30 Lead after eight minutes against the new York islanders. The islanders twice found them selves with three players in the Box two serving penalty and a third awaiting his turn in a 7-3 loss. In St. Louis referee Don Koharski and linesmen Andy Mcelman and Dan Schachte got a Nice ovation when they went onto the ice for a game Between the blues and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Bui when they came Back for the third period the blues were still shorthanded and the officials were booed. Quot my mom told me if you done to have anything Nice to say done to say anything at All a said Jeff Brown of the blues. A Toronto won 5-4, and Wendel Clark of the Maple Leafs said having the regular officials instead of the replacements was a big improvement. Quot they were decisive on their Calls and that a Confidence a he said. Quot if you Call an offsides you Call it. Its not three strides  in los Angeles referee robs Bick and linesmen Ryan Bozak and Lyle Seitz were cheered at the Start of the game Between the Kings and Anaheim. A i think it will probably take a couple of games fore a a Ilei cry body to get Back to what the rules and regulations really Are a a said Wayne Gretzky of the Kings a these Guys can clean it up right off the  f in other games Pittsburgh and new Jersey lied at 2, los Angeles beat Anaheim 3-2 and Philadelphia Defeated Vancouver 63,Kings 3, ducks 2 in the first meeting Between Southern californians teams Jari Kerri scored twice in the third period and led los Angeles Over Anaheim. The Host Kings halted a six game losing Streak and moved ahead of the expansion ducks in the Pacific division. Islanders Darivs Kasparaitis is checked by Bruins Bryan Smolonski during thursday s game at Boston Garden Kerri put the Kings ahead 2-1 with a Power play goal Early in the third period. There were 29 penalties in the game. Penguins 2, islanders 2 Pittsburgh played its third straight tie one Short of the team record set in 1979, and extended its unbeaten Streak to seven games. New Jersey stretched its franchise record for consecutive Road games without a loss to eight. Jaromir jagr scored late in the second period for the penguins his 13th goal of the season was the last goal of the game. Jaroslav Modry scored his first nil goal at 7 52 of the first period ending new jerseys o-for-17 Power play drought that spanned five games and Bobby Holik made it 2-0 two minutes later. Maple Leafs 5, blues 4 Bob Rouse and Jamie Macoun scored 31 seconds apart in the final three minutes As Toronto completed a two game two Day sweep of St Louis. The Maple Leafs he league s Best Road team sent the blues to Only their second Home loss of the season. Rouse made it 4-All with his third goal scoring from 30 feet with 2 42 left. Macoun got his first goal at 2 11 with a shot that snuck past goalie Curtis Joseph. Brett hulls Power play goal gave St Louis a 4-2 Lead Early in the third period. The blues Are 0-4-2 in their last six games a Bruins 7, islanders 3. Adam Oates scored two goals and set up three others leading Boston past visiting new York. Joe Juneau added two goals and two assists for the Bruins. Boston got a pair of Power play goals in taking a 3-0 Lead in the first eight minutes. Panthers 2, sabres 1 Jesse Belanger scored 23 seconds into overtime and Florida stopped a three game losing Streak Buffalo lost for the first time in five tanks Belanger put a rebound Pas goaltender Dominik hasek. In the sabres last wry games hasek had shut out Toronto and Tampa Bay. Flyers 6, canucks 3 _ Viacheslav a Isayev scored three goals and Mark Recchi scored twice As Philadelphia won at Vancouver Kevin Dineen also scored for the flyers who Lead the league with an average of 4.7 goals per game. But Sayer getting More ice time with injured Eric Linares out of the lineup scored twice in the second period and again in the third moments later he was ejected after ramming Greg Adams into the boards. Chinese swimmers set Short course records Palma de Majorca Spain up a chinese swimmers confirmed their new found status at the top of women a swimming by setting three world records thursday on the opening Day of the inaugural world Short course swimming championship. Just a year after claiming four golds at the Barcelona olympics a new crop of emerging chinese Talent returned to Spain and set about re writing the record books. Be Jingyi became the fastest woman of All time when she powered to Success in the women a 100-meter freestyle in 53.01 seconds shaving 0.32 off the previous Short course Best set by Germany a absent superstar Franzi amp a Vanalmsick the 19-year-old from Shanghai set the Standard for the chinese and just 15 minutes later her compatriot Dai Guorong powered to a world record in the 400-meter individual Medley. Dai 16, swam to Victory in 4 29.00 a More than two seconds better than Naomi lungs record of 1987. Dais Rise in the swimming ranks has been meteoric she failed to qualify for the chinese olympic team last year but has since gone on to be the no 1 rated swimmer in the Medley and the 100 and 200-meters breaststroke. Be herself was substituted at the medal ceremony by he Cuihong but returned later and made her Rostrum appearance after swimming the third leg in China a world record setting 800-meter freestyle relay team. She was joined in the team event by Ying Shan Guan in Zhou and bin la and the foursomes winning time of 7 52.45 sliced More than six seconds off the old record. The . Menus 400-meter Medley relay team also set a world record 3 32.57 but their achievement was overshadowed the chinese  draws 5-Day penalty for tripping new York up a the National hockey league thursday suspended new York Ranger right Wing Alexei Kovalev for five games for a tripping incident against Dale Hunter of Washington in sundays game. Kovalev was suspended for tuesdays general manager Neil Smith t Irta a Minet Al Olla Laanum. I t t. A. _ a Ranger spokesman said that the team will not Appeal the suspension. Be Are Obj a ugly disappointed in the decision and we disagree that the hit was intentional. We feel any suspension would have been excessive a said Ranger on Zyol it i a it. Game against new Jersey pending a hearing wednesday. Nil director of hockey operations Brian Burke summoned Kovalev after reviewing tapes of the incident. Since Kovalev missed tuesdays game the suspension covers the next four games beginning saturday night in Toronto. Kovalev also will miss games against new Jersey Edmonton and Buffalo and will be fined $500, the maximum allowed a under the nil collective bargaining / it ?  skates causing him to agreement. A Jeand sad he took into consideration the rangers also wiil be fined an l r Kos lev halt a be Ltd disciplined twice amount equal to Kovaleva a salary for five season including an automat Eames Kiev s salary Tor five k one game suspension for two major a. High sticking penalties. Hunter was injured in the incident and will be out of action for 4-6 weeks with ligament damage in his knee. There was no penalty assessed on the play by the replacement officials working the game but a tape was sent to the league office. Hunter Only returned to action last week after serving a 21-game suspension for deliberately injuring Pierre Turgeon of the new York islanders in the Stanley cup playoffs last Spring Burke said he Felt Kovalev intentionally kicked Hunters skates causing him to a %