European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 11. 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 35 Kings win stick flying game by the associated press the nil now has its own incident to investigate involving a stick attack and an ice skater. Tony Granato of the los Angeles Kings hit Chicago s Neil Wilkinson Over the head with his stick and received a match penalty and an automatic one game suspension wednesday night in a 4-2 win Over the Blackhawk. Granato took a two hand chop to the Side of Wilkin son s helmet with 5 57 left in the game. Wilkinson was Down for a few minutes before going to the Bench Granat and with the help of smelling salts was Able to play again. My ears Are ringing and my head hurts Wilkinson said. If i was t Wear ing a helmet he probably would have done it anyway. If i was t wearing one National hockey league i d be lying on a  Granato was checked by Wilkinson near the boards before attacking. Wilkin son appeared to say something to Gra nato who retaliated with his stick. Obviously it was a match penalty so it was not a Good play Granato said. It All happened so fast. It was a Good hit by him because there was no penalty called. I was glad to see he played the  Granato one of four Kings with 100 penalty minutes this season received a minor penalty for slashing in the second period. His match penalty will be re viewed by the nil. But Chicago coach Darryl Sutler was cynical saying he did not expect Granato to receive much of a punishment from the league. Granato should t be Able to play for at least 10 games. Well see Sutler said. Hey everything the league does nowadays is a Surprise. Maybe hell get a purple heart for  Kings goaltender Robb stauber Mak ing Only his seventh Start of the season made 49 saves. Los Angeles ended a three game losing Streak. In other games Montreal beat new York 4-3 in overtime Dallas Defeated Winnipeg 4-.2 and Calgary downed Edmonton 6-1. Canad Lens 4, rangers 3 Eric Desjardins scored 1 27 into Over time and Montreal beat new York for its sixth straight win. Because a snowstorm in new York closed the airports the rangers Rode a bus to Montreal. The trip on tuesday took eight hours. Desjardins shot from the Point and the puck went through a crowd and past goaltender Glenn Healy. Adam Graves scored his 34th and 35th goals for the rangers who have the league s Best record despite two straight losses. Ranger Forward Alexei Kovalev was Eie Tedfor spearing. His third major pen Alty this season for a stick infraction car Ries an automatic two game suspension. Stars 4, jets 2 Mike Modano scored his 32nd goal and Dallas extended Winnipeg s win less Streak to 11 games 0-9-2. Modano put the Host stars ahead 2-1 at 6 02 of the third period. Dallas won for the fifth time in six games. Russ Courtnell scored for the stars just 1 19 later then got his second assist of the game on Ulf Dahlen s goal at 12 04. Keith Tkachuk scored his 29th goal while the jets were shorthanded with seven minutes left. Winnipeg was 0 for 7 on the Power play flames 6, oilers 1 Robert Reichel scored twice and Cal Gary beat Edmonton for its fourth straight Victory. Reichel has 14 goals in his last 12 games and 27 total. Joe Nicu Wandyk who had two assists scored on a Power play 30 seconds into the second period. Thoren Fleury tipped in a pass from in Ouwendyk at 16 19 on a Power play and Reichel scored a minute later for a 5-0 Lead. Check makes Ripkin shortstop or Leader by David Ginsburg Baltimore a if you did t know that Cal Ripken became baseball s All time leading Home run hitting shortstop last summer you re not  did t know. Neither did Ernie Banks who formerly topped the list. The Baltimore orioles had no idea  won a game for the orioles on july 15 by hitting a Homer off Minnesota s Scott Erickson. It was his 278th As a shortstop but the orioles figured Ripken still needed 15 homers to tie Banks record of 293.it turns out that Banks had been credited with 16 homers at shortstop that he had actually hit while playing first base. The Elias sports Bureau the official keeper of major league statistics discovered the error four years ago but never bothered to in form the orioles. Baltimore officials found put about the change recently and finally got around to celebrating Ripken s feat wednesday. Ripken received a signed Bat from Banks commemorating the feat and the orioles announced that the spot where the Ball landed in the left Field stands would be marked by an Orange seat. Ripken who started his career at third base has 297 career homers 289 As a shortstop. Banks hit 277 of his 512 homers at the position. Banks was gracious about losing his record and kidding by made a refer ence to the Tonya Harding incident. Holding the Bat he presented to rip Ken Banks said i m not going to hit him on the knee for breaking my re Cord. I m just so Happy that he broke the record because it gave me a Chance to come and be remembered , who has received More than enough attention during his out standing career was thankful he earned the record without having to endure a Media onslaught. $16.3-million pact lifts Charger seau to no. 2 on defense san Diego a linebacker Junior seau of the san Diego chargers has agreed to a contract that makes him the nil s second High est paid defensive player at what sources say is $16.3 million Over four years. It s a big salary it s a great salary and i m Happy with it seau said wednesday. I m definitely  the new contract replaces the final year of the five year seau Deal seau signed after he was selected by the chargers in the first round of the 1990 draft. The Only defensive player with a bigger contract is Green Bay s Reggie White who signed a $17 million four year Deal last season. I be got to thank Charger owner Alex Spanos and his whole family for really stepping up to the plate and show ing us that he is going to pay to win seau said. He s been taking a big beat ing about not spending his Money. My contract proves that he docs spend  was paid $650,000 for 1993 and was scheduled to earn $750,000 next sea  general manager Bobby Bea thard said seau was expected to sign late wednesday or thursday. Beathard said the team was waiting for an interpretation of part of the contract that could affect How much of the Money counts against this year s salary Cap expected Tobe about $34 million per team. It s not a major thing but it could be a hangup that could affect the Cap this year Beathard said. We want to make sure we know exactly what we Are signing and get it straight ened  sex Stanford Star horse Reynolds Dies san Rafael Calif. A Bob horse Reynolds a former Stanford All America who played for the Detroit Lions and an executive for the California Angels and los Angeles rams has died. He was 79. Reynolds died tuesday at his Home in san Rafael Stanford University said wednesday. Reynolds a 6-foot-4, 225-Pound tackle played for Stanford from 1933 to 1936. He played every minute of three straight Rose bowl games for Stanford on both sides of the Ball a total of 180 minutes. He was elected to the National foot Ball foundation College Hall of Fame in1961. He also was selected to the Rose bowl Hall of Fame and the Stanford University football All Century team. After he was graduated from Stanford in 1936 with a degree in economics Rey nolds was drafted by the Chicago Cardi nals but decided not to play. His rights later were acquired by the Detroit Lions. 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