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2 Sunday January 17 1993 SPORTS PRO HOCKEY The Atlanta Journal The Atlanta Constitution Oops! Gretzky puts puck in wrong net ASSOCIATED PRESS Inglewood Calif Winni peg scored the tying goal when Wayne Gretzky accidently knocked the puck into his own net and Mike Eagles ignited a three goal second period with the go ahead score as the Jets beat the Los Angeles Kings 5 2 Saturday night The Jets closed the gap be tween themselves and the third place Kings to three points in the Smythe Division despite losing center Alexei Zhamnov three minutes into the second period with a high sticking mjor and automatic game misconduct The Kings who failed to win for the 12th time in 14 tries also remained winless in their last six LYERS 5 BRUINS 4 Pelle Eklund scored Philadel third goal in a span of 68 sec onds in the second period to break a tie and send the lyers to a victory in Boston Eklund fired through a screen for his fifth goal of the season the 400th point of his NHL career to beat Andy Moog who returned to the Boston net after missing four games with a back ailment The victory ran the unde feated streak to six games as they struggled to get out of the Patrick Di vision cellar CANADIENS 3 RANGERS 0 Montreal with the help of sec ond period goals from Vincent Dam phousse and Kevin Haller main tained their home ice mastery over New York hope games Kings forward Lonnie Loach opened the scoring at the eight minute mark with his fifth goal before Gretzky put the puck past a surprised Los Angeles goalie Robb Stauber with 2:40 left in the first period The goal was credit ed to Kris King whose centering pass from behind the net was in tended for Tai Domi PENGUINS 6 SENATORS I i Joe Mullen scored two goals as Pittsburgh beat Ottawa handing the Senators their 22nd road loss in as many games i The Penguins ended a two game losing streak They have won two of the six games played this season without captain Mario Le in 15 games dating back to the 1982 83 season the Canadiens have lost only one game at the Montreal orum to the Rangers NORTH STARS 4 LAMES 3 Neal Broten used primarily in a defensive role this year scored his first goal of 1993 to snap a tie with 8:56 to play and lift Minnesota The 33 year old Broten last scored Dec 31 nine games ago He has 10 goals this season after scoring only eight in 1991 92 his worst pro fessional season The previous sea son he had just 13 NORDIQUES 4 SHARKS I Mike Ricci scored two goals and set up another as Quebec sparked by three first period goals recorded a victory on their home ice over road mieux who is out indefinitely with weary San Jose Disease The Sharks winless in their last Associated Press A Going somewhere? Todd Elik (left) gives a menacing look to Chris Dahlquist of the lames 10 games including seven straight defeats were playing the fifth of nine consecutive road games The sec ond year club whose last victory was on Dec 26 1992 against Los An geles is 1 22 1 in its last 24 games Ricci was in his second game back since losing 12 pounds battling a severe flu BLUES 5 LIGHTNING 3 Brendan Shanahan scored twice and Brett Hull added a goal and an assist as St Louis defeated slumping Tampa Bay The Lightning (15 29 2) have lost four in a row and nine of their last 10 The Blues have six wins in their last seven games A sellout crowd of 10425 was on hand at Expo Hall for Tampa first home game since Dec 20 The Lightning won once on a nine game road trip ISLANDERS 5 DEVILS 3 In East Rutherford NJ Pierre Turgeon scored three goals and New York spoiled Bernie debut and ended New seven game unbeaten streak The Devils had won their last five and were 5 0 2 overall the best streak in the league BLACKHAWKS 5 MAPLE LEAS 3 Goals by Brent Sutter and Greg Gilbert 73 seconds apart midway through the third period lifted Chica go over Toronto Jeremy Roenick supplied Chica first two goals and Steve Larmer added a short handed empty netter with 19 seconds left the 400th goal of his career CANUCKS 8 WHALERS 3 Robert Kron with just three points in nine previous games scored two power play goals and as sisted on two others to lead Vancou ver to a win over Hartford The Canucks extended their rec ord team unbeaten string to 18 games (16 0 2) at home Summaries 6 Kansas City dominates Knights 6 3 ROM STA AND NEWS SERVICES Kansas City Mo Six different players scored goals for Kansas City on Saturday night as the Blades defeated the Atlanta Knights 6 3 in an International Hockey League game at Kemper Arena in front of 8232 fans Atlanta used backup goalie Mike Greenlay He had 31 saves while his Kansas City counterpart Wade laherty made 19 saves Kansas City scored the first two goals of the game Gary Emmons scored at 7:37 of the opening period and Mikhail Kravets scored at 10:39 Brent Gretzky scored for Atlanta at 3:25 of the second period after assists by Dave Capuano and Matt Hervey Hervey scored a goal to tie the score 2 2 7:06 into the mid dle period Martin Simard and Jason Lafreniere assisted Kansas City scored the next two goals by John Carter and Ed Courtenay for a 4 2 lead Tim Bergland of Atlanta scored to pull the Knights within 4 3 10:32 into the final period Lafreniere and Keith Osborne got assists But Kansas City got late goals from Mark Beaufait and Jean ranco Quintin to make the final score 6 3 AUTO RACING NOTEBOOK: JONATHAN INGRAM Rypien forms race team Little signed to drive limited schedule of Grand National events Washington Redskins quar terback Mark Rypien has formed a Busch Grand National team with driver Chad Little It will make its debut in the 300 race at Daytona In ternational Speedway on eb 13 Rypien who met Little at Wash ington State University original ly': had hoped to join Redskins coach Joe Gibbs as a team owner in the Winston Cup ranks but opted for a limited schedule in the Busch series realized very quickly how difficult it was going to be to find said Little who will drive the ords of Daw sonville Ga based Melling Rac ing in Winston Cup races Little said Mark Rypien Motorsports anticipates running a minimum of six races including the Grand National event at Atlanta Motor Speedway on March 13 The cars will be built and prepared in shops near Charlotte Little will have Mayflower Transit sponsorship for the Day tona 500 in ords which will run a limited schedule unless further sponsorship is obtained CASEY MAKES HIS CASE: Casey Elliott nephew of former Winston Cup champion Bill El liott tested one of Melling Rac Winston Cup ords at Day tona His father engine builder Ernie Elliott said Casey will run a full season in All Pro series along with the Super Eight races for Late Models at Lanier Raceway near Braselton Ga In addition Casey will test drive whenever the Winston Cup ord teams of Melling or Kenny Bernstein where Ernie pro vides engines are testing Casey clocked 181818 mph in his first drive at Daytona just 3 mph slower than Little in the same car The team did not use its new ord still under preparation for the 500 SPONSOR: Meineke Mufflers previously an associate sponsor will take full sponsorship on the ords of Bobby Allison Motorsports and driver Jimmy Spencer this sea son The deal was signed two days after Spencer clocked the best speed at Daytona in testing where there are no of ficial NASCAR inspections Michael Waltrip set the unoffi cial fastest speed of 189474 mph during test days at Daytona last week He was also among the quickest in Grand Na tional testing with a speed of 186373 mph HIGH RISE EXPECTA TIONS: The announcement of the three year phased expansion of Charlotte Motor grandstands to capacity of roughly 180000 will have reper cussions at the Atlanta Motor Speedway also owned by Bru ton Smith going to stoke things up said AMS general manager Ed Clark who anticipates his ambitious boss will press for mjor expansion in Atlanta as well The keys to expansion said Clark are the widening of the access road behind the track (recently named Richard Petty Boulevard) and the sale of enough condominiums to begin construction of the twin 112 units Clark hopes to com plete Richard Petty five lanes and start on the condos before the Nov 14 NASCAR sea son finale at AMS The track is offering to buy back condos from prospective buyers in three years if dissatisfied an offer nev er taken up by any of those who purchased the first condos built at CMS One of the keys to the Char lotte expansion will be the construction of a new exit from Interstate 85 directly to the fourth turn through land now mostly owned by Smith Two tiered grandstands will be built above turn four and will be added between the current Smith Tower and the condominiums Also the backstraight grand stands 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