European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Jail 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 25 Lecavalier notches 50th hurricanes Hopes fading nil Roundup the associated press Vincent Lecavalier is doing All he can to help coach John Tor Torellas playoff guarantee come Lecavalier scored his no leading 50th goal and added two assists to Lead Tampa Bay to a 42 Victory Over the slump ing Carolina hurricanes on Friday after the lightning recently lost five out of seven Tortorella said the team would reach the postseason for the fourth straight appear the players bought in to the bold everyone in this room feels like were going to make the play and we dont All come out and say it because its not the Way its usually but we All feel that Way in the dressing defens Eman Nolan Pratt i dont think it puts any More pres sure on theres already a ton of pressure to win the pressure certainly is build ing on the who have lost three straight and Are in Dan Ger of becoming the first defend ing Stanley cup Champion to miss the playoffs since new Jersey in a loss at this Point in the sea son is coach Peter Laviolette at Martin Louis scored his 42nd Vaclav Prospal had a goal and an As and Filip Kuba broke a third period tie for the who twice halhed from on goal deficits and moved past the Idle new York rangers into sixth place in the Eastern Erik Cole and Mike commo Dore scored for tied for 10th in the two Points below the playoff cutoff with four games Kubas Winner came seconds after a Tampa Bay Power play sex Craig Adams played the puck near the Carolina goal and tried a Long pass to Commodore coming out of the Penally but Kuba intercepted it behind the left Cir Cle and snapped the puck past Cam Ward with making it i was on the other Side of the Blue Adams saw me and we were trying to make a Commodore he just didst get it senators canadians 2 Dany Heatley got his 47th Mike Fisher scored twice and Ottawa reached 100 Points for the fourth straight and sixth m the past Montreal Sheldon sourly scored his 18th Power play goal of the season in the tying Hall of Famer Denis Potvin and Adrian Aucoin for the nil sin Gle season record by a defense the visiting who in Karl Tampa Bays Vincent Lecavalier backhands the puck for his 50th goal of the season during the third period of fridays game against tired tied with Tampa Bay for seventh in the Eastern Confer ence with 86 ended a five game winning sabres islanders 4 at but Chris Drury scored twice to spark the sabres five goal first Thomas Vanek and Drew Stafford had a goal and assist each for Buffalo i a game the is Landers made close by scoring three times in the final Jason por Ninville added three assists in helping the sabres be come the first team to reach the 50win plateau this season and gain sole Possession of first place in the nil Viktor Kozlov scored including a goal in the final for the injury depleted who dropped to 252 in their past devils flyers 1 Mike Rupp and Travis Zajac scored late in the second period for new Jer the Victory ended the devils five game losing Streak at Home and moved new Jersey into a tie with the Pittsburgh penguins atop the Atlantic the penguins and devils each have 100 Points with four games to the devils continued their Mas Tery of the visiting improving to 61 against Philadelphia this new Jersey has won eight straight Over Philadelphia at Martin Brodeur tied Vancou vers Roberto Luongo for the nil Lead with 45 two shy of Bernie parents league record for a single Simon Gagne scored for the Fly who have dropped five of stars red wings 3 ser Gei Zubov scored the Only goal of the shootout to Lead visiting dal Las to a comeback Victory Over de which improved its Points Streak to six scored three goals in to tie the game at 3 in the third Kris Draper had a goal and an assist for Todd Bertuzzi scored his first goal with the red and Kirk Maltby also panthers capitals 2 Martin Gelinas scored two including the Winner in leading Florida past visiting Washington for its fifth straight Jakub Klespis and Chris Clark scored goals for the who have lost four of Blu jackets 1 at Martin Havlat ended a 13game goal drought and added an assist As the Black Hawks snapped a six game losing Jason chimera scored for co which lost for the second time in two Sharks coyotes 2 Patrick Rissmiller had a goal and an As Jonathan Cheechov added a and san Jose kept Pace in the tight Pacific division defens Emen Christian erhoff and Scott Hannan also scored As san Jose earned its 100th Point of the season with its eighth Victory in 10 Fredrik Sjostrom and Steven Reinprecht scored for the visiting who lost for the 13th time in 15 nil scoreboard Eastern conference a Buffalo Denew Jersey Atlanta Ottawa Pittsburgh Tampa Bay rangers Montreal w l of pts 50 20 7 107 46 24 8 100 40 27 11 91 46 24 8 100 45 23 10 100 42 32 4 88 39 29 9 87 40 32 6 86 of a 292 231 206 194 234 237 274 212 267 234 241 247 223 204 233 244 Toronto islanders Carolina Florida Boston Washington Philadelphia 37 29 11 36 29 12 38 32 8 34 30 14 35 36 6 26 38 14 21 45 11 85 240 246 84 231 227 84 229 239 82 233 245 76 211 271 66 229 277 53 200 284 Western conference a Detroit a Anaheim a Vancouver a Nashville Dallas san Jose Minnesota Calgary w l 47 19 46 20 47 23 49 22 47 24 48 26 45 25 42 25 of pts 12 106 12 104 7 101 7 105 6 100 4 100 8 98 10 94 of a 238 193 248 198 210 187 260 202 214 186 242 188 223 188 244 207 Colorado Louis Columbus Edmonton los Angeles Chicano Phoenix 40 30 7 87 255 239 32 33 12 76 201 238 32 39 7 71 195 237 31 40 7 69 191 238 26 38 14 66 218 268 28 40 9 65 189 243 29 44 5 63 206 273 two Points for a one Point for Over time loss or shootout division Leader clinched playoff spot Friday s games Dallas Detroit so Ottawa Montreal 2 Tampa Bay Carolina 2 Florida Washington of new Jersey Philadelphia 1 Buffalo islanders 4 Chicago Columbus 1 san Jose Phoenix 2 saturdays games Atlanta at 1 Minnesota at 3 Buffalo at 7 Ottawa at 7 Pittsburgh at 7 rangers at 7 Washington at Tampa Anaheim at 8 Dallas at 8 Calgary at 10 sundays games Detroit at Edmonton at 3 Boston at new Carolina at 5 los Angeles at san 6 Toronto at 7 Friday lightning hurricanes 2 Tampa Bay 1 1 24 Carolina 1 1 first Cole 28 still Tampa Louis 42 second Commodore 7 Tampa Prospal 13 third Tampa Kuba Tampa Lecavalier 50 shots on Bay Carolina Power play Bay 0 of 7 Carolina 0 of Holmqvist 25142 28 shots26 Ward 29196 senators canadians 2 Montreal 1 o 12 Ottawa 3 0 25 first Fisher 21 Spezza 31 heat sourly 25 com Rie 17 third Streit 10 Lapi Fisher 22 com Heatley 47 shots on Goa Montreal Ottawa Power play opportunities Montreal 1 of 6 Ottawa 0 of Halak 850 36 shots32 Emery 32155 devils flyers 1 Philadelphia 0 0 new Jersey 0213 second new Rupp 6 new Zajac 17 third Gagne 38 new pan Dolfo 11 shots on Goa Philadelphia new Jersey Power play opportunities Philadelphia 0 of 3 new Jersey 1 of Biron 17102 23 shots21 new Brodeur 45237 panthers capitals 2 of Washington 110 02 Florida 1 1 0 13 first Klespis 3 no Campbell 6 second Clark 30 Geli Nas 12 Gelinas 13 shots on Goa Washington Florida Power Lay opportunities Washington 1 of 5 Florida 2 of Johnson 5157 35 shots32 Belfour 26179 stars red wings 3 so Dallas 003 Detroit Dallas won shootout 10 first Bertuzzi 2 Dat second Maltby 6 Draper 13 third Morrow 13 Ribeiro 17 Boucher 19 shootout Dallas 1 Lehtinen Zubov Ribeiro Detroit 0 Matsyuk Cleary Bertuzzi shots on Goa Dallas Detroit Power play opportunities Al i As 1 of 5 Detroit 0 of Smith 1251 34 shots31 hasek 36116 sabres islanders 4 islanders 1 0 Buffalo 5 0 16 first Roy 17 Pomin Blake 39 Sil Vanek 38 Drury 36 Stafford 13 Drury third Kozlov 23 Poti 5 Buffa Zubrus 23 Kozlov 24 shots on islanders Buffalo Power play islanders 3 of 8 Buffalo 3 of Dunham 4103 12 shots7 Tubielewicz Miller 37166 Blackhawk Blue jackets 1 Columbus o 1 Chicago 2 1 first Sharp 19 Havlat 25 second Lapointe 13 Colum chimera 14 shots on Goa Columbus Chi Cago Power play 1 of 6 Chicago 0 of Boucher 2113 25 shots22 Lazime 351 Sharks coyotes 2 Phoenix 0 1 12 san Jose 0 2 24 second san Rissmiller 6 san erhoff 10 Sjostrom 9 third san Hannan 3 san Cheechov 32 Reinprecht 9 shots on Goa Phoenix san Jose Power play opportunities Phoenix 1 of 9 san Jose 1 of Joseph 16292 25 shots21 san Nabokov 22163 scoring leaders through March 30 up g pit 75 35 so 78 21 to 78 50 Ott 78 47 to 78 42 at 78 42 but 76 31 bos 77 22 col 77 34 Ana 78 45 was 78 43 Cal 66 37 nor 77 26 a 78 37 pit 74 33 det 75 26 Ott 63 31 Van 76 36 Ott 73 27 car 77 30 a pts 81 116 84 105 53 103 52 99 57 99 54 96 61 92 70 92 57 91 45 90 46 89 51 88 61 87 47 84 50 83 57 83 51 82 45 81 54 81 49 79 Calendar aprils last Day of regular april 11 Stanley cup playoffs april 27may 13 i if world Champion May 29june 2 nil june 11 last possible Day for Stanley cup june is deadline for first club elected salary june 23 nil july 1 free Agency signing period be july 5 deadline for player elected salary july 6 deadline for second club elected salary july 10 deadline for eligible players to elect group 5 free july 4 salary arbitration hear Ings 6 deadline for salary arbitration de