European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 30 the stars and stripes sports thursday january 7,1994 us by the associated Presson a warm night in Phoenix Patrick Roy had another hot game for the Montreal  stopped 32 shots for his fourth shutout and Montreal beat the Quebec Nordques 4-0wednesday. Instead of playing in either Montreal or que Bec where the temperature has been in the sin it digits the Neutral site game was held in Ari Zona where it was near 70 during the Day the second of four games to be held in Phoe Nix this season Drew 11,393. About 8,000 fans at tended a game Between Dallas and the might ducks of Anaheim in november. The crowd cheered loudly when the Canadien were introduced. The loudest ovation of the night however came when it was announced that the Phoenix sunshade beaten Utah in an Aba game in Salt Lake City in other hockey games Calgary beat the new York rangers 4-1, Hartford Defeated Winnipeg and Vancouver beat Ottawa 7-2. Thursday night in another Neutral site game St. Louis was to play Hartford in Cleveland. Roy who will play in the All Star game Low ered his goals against average to 2.31. That is second in the league to Dominik hasek of Buffalo 1.80. Roy Hurt his neck several weeks ago but has been improving. Patrick Roy showed Why he s the Best goal tender in the game Montreal coach Jacques Demers said. He s playing in the form now that he did when we won the Stanley  flames 4, rangers 1 Rookie Andrei Tref Ilov stopped 52 shots Fortis first nil Victory and Calgary beat new York and All Star goaltender Mike Richter. The flames ended new York s 16-game Home unbeaten Streak 13-0-3 Tref Ilov was with the russian Gold medal win Ning team in the 1993 world championships. He has been in the minors most of this season. Whalers 4, jets 0 Sean Burke stopped 20 shots for his first shut out in five years to Nelp Hartford beat Winnipeg. Canucks 7, senators 2 Cliff Ronning scored one goal and set up three others As visiting Vancouver sent Ottawa to its seventh straight loss. Suns explode Early to end jazz Streak Aba by the associated press the Phoenix suns had two reasons to worry about Raveling to Salt Lake City to play Utah. For one the jazz took a 10-game Home winning Streak into the game and had a 13-2 record at the Delta Center. For another the suns were playing without Point guard Kevin Johnson injured the night before in a loss at Seattle. Phoenix did t have to worry for Long however out scoring Utah 40-16 in the first period on the Way to a 107-91 Victory wednesday night. It sure was t expected for us to come out and score40 Points in the first Quarter on them said Sun coach Paul Westphal whose team shot 60 percent in the first period to Utah s 29 percent. They had a Nice comeback sunday night against Portland from 19 Points Dowland we were leery of their ability to do  Westphal also noted that the suns have not lost consecutive games this season. In other games wednesday supersonics 106, clippers 98 Shawn Kemp had 22 Points and tied a season High with is rebounds As Seattle won its fourth straight and improved to 11-2 on the Road and 24-3 Overall. Kings 106, lakers 98 Sacramento won for the fourth time in five games defeating los Angeles despite blowing most or a 15 Point Lead in the fourth  Richmon scored 23 Points for the Kings. Magic 105, bulls 90 Orlando handed visiting Chicago just its third loss in18 games behind Anfernee Hardaway s 20 Points 10 assists and four steals and Shaquille o Neal s 28 Point Sand 12 rebounds. Timber wolves 109, nuggets 95 Minnesota snapped a seven game losing Streak and five game Home skid As Micheal Williams and Luc Longley sparked a 15-2 third Quarter run after Isaiah rider was  finished with 22 Points and Longley had 12 Points and 10 rebounds for the Tim be wolves. Rockets 114, Mavericks 102 Hakeem Olajuwon scored 15 of his 37 Points during 28-14 second Quarter surge and also had 14 rebounds As Houston extended Dallas Aba record Home win less Streak to 14 games celtics 101, Cavaliers 96 Boston broke Cleveland s five game Home winning Streak and won for just the second time in 10 games be Cleveland s Larry Nance makes the hands Down Stolon a Layup by Boston s Kevin Gamble on wednesday. Hind Dee Brown s 25 Points. Bullets 97, pacers 95 Tom Gugliotta s Layup with 1.2 seconds left snapped tie and lifted Washington past Indiana ending the bullets seven game Home losing Streak. Bucks 100, nets 91 Rookie Vin Baker had season highs of 29 Points and12 rebounds and Eric Murdock scored 21 Points As Mil Waukee won at new Jersey raiders i in Dejavu games by Dave Goldberg a football writer the 12-team format in the nil playoffs has brought us an oddity doubleheaders. Like Green Bay at Detroit and the Denver Broncos at the los Angeles raiders for the second straight week the winners last week were playing for Home Field advantage in the wild card round. So we be already seen two of the matchup in this week s wild card round. Keeping in mind that the six previous times these doubleheaders have occurred the team that lost the first week has won the second Here Are this weekends matchup in order of appearance Pittsburgh plus 8 at Kansas City a those schizophrenic Steeles world beaters one week patsies the next they beat Buffalo then got blown away by Denver and Houston 60-16 the next two. This actually in t a bad matchup for Pittsburgh which May have been awakened by Greg Lloyd s half time tirade. Last year the Steeles beat the pre Joe Montana chiefs 27-3. The old chiefs of Christian Okoye and Barry word slamming straight ahead would have been harder to handle than the new chiefs of Montana and Marcus Allen size negates the Active but smallish defense of Pittsburgh. Another intangible this is a Homecoming for coach Bill Cowher who was Marty Schottenheim Metis nil playoff predictions defensive coordinator and his protege. The difference Montana Over Neil o Donnell. Chiefs,20-14 Green Bay plus 11/2 at Detroit Green Bay should be the better team making it Tough for the Lions to beat them Back to Back. Besides the packers obviously will reconsider the Short Kickoff strategy that backfired on them instead of negating Mel Gray it kept giving the Lions Good Field position. If Brett Favre throws four More interceptions the packers lose again. And Erik Kramer was a Good play off quarterback two years ago. But it s hard to see the packers letting Eric Lynch run for 115 Yards again and it s probably silly to risk Barry Sanders knee when you re not going to the super bowl anyway. Packers 23-17 Minnesota plus 7 at new York giants Jimmy Johnson suggested before the cowboys played the giants that the loser of their showdown might lose again. That s the Best Hope for the Vikings a let Down by new York after their near miss against Dallas. But the matchup is right Down the giants  s league leading defense is based on Speed. The giants Are both big and relatively fast and will probably Pound Rodney Hampton at the vikes for 40 minutes or so negating the pass Rush of Chris Dole Man against whoever replaces jumbo Elliott at left tackle. Moreover they re playing outdoors against what s basically a warm weather team from a cold weather Cli mate. Scottie Graham the Eric Lynch of the Vikings Isa Nice Horatio Alger Story. But he s not Emmitt Smith. Giants.20-6 Denver plus 2 at raiders the Point spread is accurate 17 of the last 21 games Between these two have been decided by a touchdown or less and six have gone into overtime including last week s 33-30 win by the raiders. Los an Geles won the first one too 23-20 on a last second Field goal by Jeff Jaeger. This one May not be As close. The Broncos remain banged up and the raiders have the momentum now they outscored Denver 23 3 when the game was on the line. On the other hand both teams have the habit of win Ning when they should lose and losing when they should win. Go with history. Raiders 26-23 overtime last week 7-6-1 spread 11-3 straight up regular season 110-110-4 spread 146-78 straight up