European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 31 mad Leafs fight Back to tie blues by the associated press sometimes in the nil anger Isth Best Medicine. Toronto coach Pat Burns said anger helped his visiting Maple Leafs rally for a 4-4 tie tuesday night against the St. Louis blues. The Maple Leafs had already surrendered a hat trick to Brett Hull and were trailing 4-2 when Ken Baumgartner was assessed a five minute High sticking penalty and a game mis conduct t y referee Rob Shick at9 11 of the third period. We got mad at the Call and rightfully so Burns said. I saw it three times on the replay and there s no Way in the world that was a High stick. You just can t let that go  the Leafs took their anger Outon the blues. They killed the Power play and then got goals from Mark Greig with 3 47 left in the game and Doug Gilmour with three minutes left to extend their unbeaten Streak to 11 games. Elsewhere tuesday night Pitts Burgh edged Florida 2-1, Hartford beat Quebec 2-1 and the new York islanders turned Back Sanjose 5-4. Gilmour s game tying goal came off a rebound after goaltender Curtis Joseph stopped Dave Andreychuk on a wraparound. The rebound came right Back to me said Gilmour who needs two Points to total 900 in his Ca reer. That s How i score All of  it s a non character tie for sure blues defens Eman Jef Fbrown said. Hull scored his 34th, 35th and 36th goals of the season and Bren Dan Shanahan added his 32nd. In 42 games against Toronto Over seven seasons Hull has 38 goals and 26 assists. It was a Hull show tonight Burns said. We seemed to let Hull play his game. We did t bother him much and he was Mak ingus pay the  despite the collapse the blues remained unbeaten at 3-0-2 since defens Eman Steve Duchesne was acquired from Quebec on Jan. 23. In other games tuesday night penguins 2, panthers 1 Larry Murphy had a goal and As Sist helping Pittsburgh end Flor Ida s nine game unbeaten Streak. Pittsburgh allowed just one Goa while playing shorthanded for nearly 12 minutes in the second period. Doug Brown also scored for the winners. Stu Barnes scored on Bob Kudelski s pass at 19 29 of the Sec ond period for Florida. It was the first goal Ken Wreggit has Given up on Home ice in 140 minutes 57 seconds. Islanders 5, Sharks 4 Benoit Hogue s second goal of the game with 8 41 left ruined a san Jose comeback and allowed new York to break a five game losing Streak with a Victory at the Nassau coliseum. Whalers 2, Nordques 1 Alexander Godynyuk scored with 4 41 to play helping visiting Hartford snap a nine game wingless Streak. Kicks bulls stay hot Aba by the associated press who s the Best team in the Aba after tuesday night it s almost to close to Call. The Seattle supersonics and Houston rockets continued their downward cycles with losses while the new York kicks and Chicago bulls kept playing perfectly. The result is five teams with nearly identical records. The sonics 31-10, still own the Best record in the Aba a bragging right they be held since late de Cember. But just a half game behind them Are the kicks and rockets both 31-11. The atlant Hawks Are 30-11 and the bulls Are 31-12. If the question changes to who s the hottest team in the Aba it s a toss up Between new York and Chicago. The kicks won their fourth straight and 13th of 16 tuesday beating Boston 114-79. We had t gotten Back into the rhythm we had at the end of last season and people were saying we were old the kicks Charles Oakley said. Well see them All at the end of the  Chicago beat Denver 118-98 for its ninth Victory in 10 games. It s one of the Best Road games we be played All year coach Phil Jackson said Seattle meanwhile lost to new Jersey 104-103 for its fifth defeat in six games and Houston lost to Utah 104-88 for its fourth straight defeat on the Road. Kicks 114, celtics 79 at new York the kicks held an opponent to less than 80 Points for the fourth time this season out rebounded the celtics 56-35 and held them to 33percent shooting from the Field. Seven new York players had at least 10 Points led by Patrick Ewing with 23and Charles Smith with 14. Dino Radja had 14 Points for Boston. Bulls 118, nuggets 98 at Denver Scottie Pippen scored 28 Points Horace Grant and . Armstrong Scottie Pippen. Leads bulls charge had 19 apiece and the bulls shot 59 per cent from the Field. Denver coach Dan Issel was impressed. They the bulls played hard they played together As a team and they passed the Ball Well and that s Why they re three time world champions. You Don t win three straight championships because of one player you win it because of great efforts like they gave  nets 104, supersonics 103 at East Rutherford n.j., the sonics were playing for the last shot when Ricky Pierce dribbled the Ball off his foot. He retrieved it at Hal court and missed a wild Hook shot As time expired jazz 104, rockets 88 at Salt Lake City Karl Malone scored 29 Points 15 in the fourth Quarter and Utah held Houston scoreless for the final 4 56. John Stockton added 26 Points and 13 assists and Jeff Malone chipped in with 13 Points. Suns 108, clippers 106 at Phoenix the suns did t let Danny Manning take the final shot. Los Angeles inbound cd to Manning with 3.5 seconds left but he had to pass it out to Gary Grant because of defensive pressure. Grant missed a 25-footer pastime expired. Cedric Ceballos scored 37 Points and Dan major la had 21, Ron Harper had 28 Points for the clippers and Manning had26 Points and 18 rebounds. Spurs 112, lakers 97 at san Antonio Dale Ellis scored a season High 32 Points and David Robin son had 30 for san Antonio which has won four in a Row and 15 of its last .18. Right now we be got seven Guys who Are playing very Well. Now All we need to do is find an eighth who can play at this level spurs coach John Lucas said. Pacers 116, bullets 96 at Indianapolis Reggie Miller reacted to his All Star snub1�y getting nine assists and five steals to go along with his 25points. Everyone just knows me for my scor ing. There Are other things i can do out there on the floor he said. I looked to try to pass first try to get everyone in it and at the same time try to get the looks Here or  heat 88, Bucks 82 at Milwaukee Steve Smith scored 19 Points including seven straight Points in a decisive 90-second Span that broke the game open late in the fourth Quarter. Glen Rice led Miami with 23 Points and the heat won for the third straight Timeon the Road. 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