European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 17, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 31 Craig Berube 27 and Calle Johansson of the capitals and Doug weight of the oilers have their eyes on the puck tuesday night. Mario less penguins win by the associated press Mario Lemieux s sore Back has Pitts Burgh wondering when hell be Back which May explain Why Shawn Mceachern is coming Back. Lemieux did not play in the penguins 5-3 Victory Over Winnipeg tuesday night complaining that his sore Back was bothering him again. He played twice Over the weekend and had three goals and an assist in his first action since missing 38 games with Back related problems. After the game the penguins bolstered their Forward line by acquiring Center Mceachern and right Wing Tomas Sands trom from los Angeles. Defens Emen Marty Mcsorley and Jim pack go to the Kings the penguins traded Mceachern to los Angeles last August to reacquire Mcsorley who had started his pro career with Pittsburgh in 1983. Penguins general manager Craig Pat Rick said he will adopt a safety first policy regarding Lemieux. We Are going to be very cautious the rest of the year he said. If there s any Type of soreness we re not going to have him play. Today he was a Little sore and we Don t want to take the  Sandstrom and Mceachern Are expected to be in Pittsburgh for the morn ing skate on thursday. Against Winnipeg Rick Tocchet Mike Stapleton and Jaromir jagr scored in the first period As the penguins out shot the jets 14-4. The jets outscored Pittsburgh 3-1 in the second period on goals from Keith Tkachuk Mike eagles and Darrin Shan non. Joe Mullen scored for the penguins. Pittsburgh s Martin Straka put in Peter Taglianetti s rebound for his 22nd goal at 15 32 of the third period. Tom Barrasso got his 253rd career win making him the winning est  goalie in nil history. He had been tied with Frank Brimsek who played for bos ton and Chicago. Elsewhere tuesday night the new York islanders beat Tampa Bay 2-1, Edmonton and Washington tied 2-2, Toron to beat Detroit 5-4 in overtime St. Louis edged Vancouver 3-2 and Philadelphia beat san Jose 6-4. Aba spurs up Streak to to games by the associated press add san Antonio to the length ening list of Aba teams with 10 game winning streaks this season the spurs joined Houston at Lanta Seattle and Chicago Amon the teams with double digit streaks with a 109-100 Victory Over Indiana tuesday night. The outcome ended the pacers team record seven game Streak. David Robinson just missed his fifth triple double of the season with 34 Points 10 rebounds and nine assists is san Antonio tied its franchise record winning Streak and also won its 12th straight game at the Ala Modoc. It s Nice to say 10 in a Row Robinson said. But it s really Nice to Sec our Confidence building. It s Nice to see us grow. We re executing 10 times better than at the Start of the  san Antonio 21-3 since dec. 26, ran off nine straight Points during a 17-6 first Quarter run to take the Lead Forgona. Reggie Miller scored 23 Points for the pacers. Dale Ellis scored 32 Points and Vinny Del negro and . Reid added 20 each for san Antonio. Spurs coach John Lucas said re serves Reid and Dennis Rodman who grabbed 1.9 rebounds Are playing important roles. One of the keys was ., who was excellent coming off the Bench Lucas said. With Reid scoring and Dennis Rodman re bounding we re getting excellent play off our Bench elsewhere in the Aba it was new Jersey 103, new York 83 or Lando 102, Boston 92 Cleveland 111, Denver 99 Detroit 100, Washington 93 Minnesota 97, Milwaukee 90 Portland 106, Dallas 103houston 103, Atlanta 99 Seattle 133, Philadelphia 105 the los an Geles clippers 100, the los an Geles lakers 89 and Golden state 123, Sacramento 113. 7993 Daytona Champ struggling a of by Pete Iacobelli Daytona Beach Fla. A defending Day Tona 500 Champion Dale Jarrett has yet to lose his Confidence even though he thinks he s lost his advantage. We re not quite As confident to the Point where wended to be right now said Jarrett. Who continued preparations to defend his title sunday. The car in t As fast As it needs to be. It seems a whole lot of people have caught up with us and passed  not the kind of talk you expect from someone who finished fourth in the Winston cup Points standings and earned More than $1.2 million in1993. While Jarrett has do Newell he has t won since crossing the line first at l Daytona a year ago. And Jarrett despite 13 top-10 finishes in the Winston cup series questions of How successful Jarrett will be constantly Trail him. We re struggling a bit right now he said. Jarrett became an instant celebrity last year holding off perennial favorite Dale Earnhardt As Ned Jarrett a lbs race analyst and former Star Driver rooted his son Home on the air. The Victory one of Only two in his Winston cup Ca reer probably raised expectations for the 38-year-old Jarrett and his racing team. It does bring pressure with it said former Washington redskins coach Joe Gibbs owner of Jarrett s interstate batteries team. Now you re looked at As one of the teams that is supposed to be up there. I know our expectations were up , Jarrett said the team could t recapture the form or the swagger they Felt before last year s qua  really had a Good plan for qualifying and wound up on the outside pole he said. Then we knew what we wanted to do for the race. We did t change any thing on the car and it worked out  things Haven t been As perfect this year. His Best Speed for Daytona s twin 125-mile qualifying races on thursday was 187.145 Mph Only 24th Best. Jarrett said most of his problems last season came i qualifying. In 29 events after the Daytona 500, Jarrett s Chevrolet Lumina qualified in the top 10 just four times. Yet Jarrett still managed a third at Charlotte after starting 32nd and a second the next week at Dover del., from the 29th Slot. Jarrett said not travelling such lengthy distances will be a priority this season for the third year team. We re going to work hard on our qualifying Effort he said. We came from the Back of the pack a number of times to finish in the top five and contend for some wins. But we feel like we can be a lot better starting out closer to the  Jarrett said last year s Victory cased pressure on the team and gave them the Chance to tinker with the car. That might not have been a great thing he said. We had a Good first half even two thirds of the sea son he said. But what we were trying to do backfired on  the team abandoned successful past setups looking for something no one could match. We thought we d go out on a limb a Little bit he said. But it did t work for the races we tried to do that in. So we be decided to go Back to what  Gibbs said not surprisingly that he uses a similar philosophy in Auto racing As he did in football. During the off season you figure you change about30 percent of your team every year even with Good teams Gibbs said. That s what we be done Here and we feel ready to come