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THE CAPITAL TIMES, Monday, Jan. 30, 1984 13 Duluth keeps one-point lead in WCHA race QiL Badgers From Page 11 All In all, Pietrangelo was credited with 33 saves. And perhaps it was be cause of his injury that the Gophers elected to curb their offensive appetite and order some defense in front of him. But you should be able to adjust and play against any style," added Jo-hannson. "You dont have time to worry about about what theyre doing as much as what youre doing.

And we didnt do some of the thing we should have done like execute. We played well for about 20 minutes, total At times, we're playing like an average team." Most of the time. With six games left, the Badgers are courting a below .500 record. Four of those games will be played on the road. And that might be the good news.

In the WCHA, the Badgers are 3-7 at home 5-5 away from home. The bad news is that Wisconsin will have to play at North Dakota (this weekend) and at Duluth (Feb. 17-18). Thats a Denver sandwich. The Pioneers will play at the Coliseum on Feb.

10-11. Were a lot better team than we were a month ago," Johannson said. Instead of playing for five minutes, were playing for 25. But were not going for 55 and 60 like we used to. Were not making that final step the step that you have to make to win a lot of games.

If it wasnt for Terry (Kleisinger) who made some big saves, they would have been beaten us, 8-1. He played well both nights. Its been a frustrating year. But I really dont believe theres a lot of difference in the league between the teams in talent and ability. The difference is execution.

"Thais where weve been lacking. Looking at the first weekend of the playoffs, well probably play Colorado College, and that wont be an easy series. Theyre not bad. The second round would be at North Dakota or at Duluth. Thats why its important that we establish something against both those teams.

"Like I said, were still a pretty good team. But were a step away. Right now, a giant step. Th Associated Prtu Minnesota-Duluth held on to a slim lead in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association race by coming from behind to claim a 4-4 overtime tie over second-place North Dakota in the second game of their weekend senes, after claiming the top spot with a victory a night earlier. The Bulldogs topped the Fighting Sioux, 4-1, Friday night in the first game of the weekend series to pull into a one-point lead in the WCHA standings.

Meanwhile, Denver and Colorado College split in two high-scoring contests. Denver came back for an 8-6 victory Saturday night after Colorado College edged the Pioneers, 9-8, the previous night. In Saturday night's battle for the league lead, Duluths Mark Odnoko-non scored two goals. Odnokon opened the scoring at 3:01 of the first period before North Dakota came back with three unanswered goals, by Brian Williams, Jim Archibald and Chris Jensen, by 2:48 of the second period. Duluth revived the game on goals by Odnokon, a power-play shot at 9:59 of the second period, and Norm Maclver, who scored less than two minutes later.

The Sioux went ahead on Dean Barsness's goal at 17:16, but Duluth scored just 32 seconds into the third period on Bob Lakso's shot to tie the game at 4-4. Neither team could score in the 10-minute overtime at the Duluth Arena. Goalie John Casey made 24 saves for North Dakota and Duluths Rick Koski had 20. Duluth, unbeaten in 12 of its last 13 WCHA games, is 14-4-2 in the league, while North Dakota is 14-5-1. Minnesota is in third place, four points back at 12-7-1.

In Colorado Springs Saturday night, Ian Ramsey scored a goal in each of three periods to lead the University of Denver to victory over Colorado College. The two teams are now tied for last place at 5-15 and six points behind fourth-place Wisconsin. In games next Friday and Saturday nights, Colorado College is at Duluth, Wisconsin is at North Dakota, and Minnesota is at Denver. yt. vf The Associated Press fight Sunday night at Madison Square Carden.

The Rangers won, 3-2. The lights have gone out for Brian Sutter (right) of the St. Louis Blues as Scott Kleinendorst gets the best of their NHL has something new Rangers in first The Associated Press goal was disallowed because the play had been whistled dead. Black Hawks 5, Flyers 5 Philadelphias Mark Howe scored the tying goal on a 50-foot slapshot with one second remaining in regulation. Canucks 3, Devils 2 Thomas Gradin broke out of a season-long slump with his ninth and 10th goals.

Gradin, who scored 32 times last season, got both his goals on power plays. He tied the score 1-1 in the opening period, assisted on Stan Smyls tie-breaking goal at 1 :44 of the second period and gave the Canucks a 3-1 lead at 17:38 of the middle period. Tim Higgins and Paul Gagne scored for New Jersey. Shedden had two goals and Ron Flockhart had one for the Penguins. Perreault was playing in his game, only the 52nd player in NHL history to do so, while Ramsays goals were his first at home this season.

With the Sabres leading 2-1, Ramsay opened a five-goal third-period barrage at 2:57. Nordiques 5, Whalers 5 Peter Stastnys third assist of the game set up the second of two goals by Quebecs Michel Goulet with five minutes left in the third period. Goulets goal, his 42nd of the season, came during a power play and extended Hartfords winless streak to nine games, 0-5-4. Quebec fell behind 5-3 at 5:45 of the third period when Hartfords Sylvain Turgeon scored his second goal of the game. But the Nordiques rallied on goals by Wilf Paiement at 7:06 and Goulet.

The Whalers had apparently regained the lead when former Wisconsin star Mark Johnson backhanded the puck into the net with 1 39 remaining in regulation time, but the maining in the third period gave the Rangers a 3-2 victory over the SL Louis Blues and lifted them into first place in the National Hockey Leagues Patrick Division, one point ahead of the idle New York Islanders. Rangers 3, Blues 2 Ruotsalainens game-winning goal was a turnaround 50-foot blast from the top of the right faceoff circle that sailed between the pads of St. Louis goalie Mike LiuL It was one of only three shots the Rangers had on Liut in the final period and came on a play that Ruotsalainen began by dumping the puck into the St. Louis end from the center red line. The victory also gave the Rangers a 34-3-3 home record against St.

Louis since the Blues joined the league. Buffalo 7, Pittsburgh 3 Gil Perreault and Craig Ramsay each scored two goals in the third period as Buffalo extended its unbeaten streak to 13 games and ended January with a record of 11-0-2. Paul Cyr, Ric Selling and Gilles Hamel also scored for Buffalo, while Doug Theres something old and something new in the National Hockey League. Old: The Montreal Canadiens on a winning streak. New: The New York Rangers in first place this late in the season for the first time in 12 years.

This is very important to us because we havent been too consistent, said veteran Montreal defense-man Larry Robinson, who triggered a five-goal third-period spree with his fifth goal of the season as the Canadiens defeated the Boston Bruins 7-2 Sunday for their third consecutive triumph. Weve sort of been labeled a team that cant win the big ones, cant beat the big clubs. We have a long way to go, a lot of work ahead, but this was a big confidence-builder for us. It was a pretty good effort, and playing against a good club, the Boston Bruins in Boston, makes it that much sweeter. Meanwhile, Reijo Ruotsalainens second goal of the game with 7:22 re Olympic Flame continues its journey to Sarajevo DUBROVNIK, Yugoslavia (AP) -The Olympic Flame, which arrived from Athens, left today on the way to Sarajevo, the venue of the 14th Winter Olympic Games opening in eight days.

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Sam Perkins added 19 points and a career-high 17 rebounds for the Tar Heels. Jerry Reynolds scored 29 points for LSU. Meanwhile, No. 16 Arkansas lost, 58-54, to unranked Villanova at Philadelphia Sunday. Dwayne McClain scored 20 points, including a tip-in with three seconds left, to pace Villa-nova.

On Saturday, No. 2 DePaul routed 15th-ranked UCLA, 84-68; Notre Dame tripped fifth-ranked Maryland, 52-47; Marquette upended 14 th-ranked Louisville, 65-60; third-rated Kentucky routed No. 18 Georgia, 64-40; No. 4 Georgetown ran past Pittsburgh, 63-52; sixth-ranked Nevada-Las Vegas turned back Fullerton State, 82-75, in overtime; No. 7 Houston beat Baylor, 84-58; Eighth-ranked Texas El-Paso edged New Mexico, 60-59; No.

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