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Blackhawks Leave Kings In A Daze

Associated Press

NHL

Ed Belfour made 23 saves and Eric Daze scored twice as the Chicago Blackhawks beat Los Angeles 5-2 Sunday night in Chicago, in what might have been Wayne Gretzky’s last game with the Kings. Sergei Krivokrasov, Bernie Nicholls and Eric Weinrich also scored for the Blackhawks, who are 11-2-2 overall and 7-1-1 at home since Dec. 17.

Though the Kings deny they are shopping Gretzky, The Toronto Sun has reported that a deal sending the NHL’s all-time scorer to the St. Louis Blues was imminent.

REST} Blackhawks 5, Kings 2

Los Angeles 0 1 1 - 2 Chicago 1 2 2 - 5

First period-1, Chicago, Daze 22 (Craven, Nicholls), 7:05.

Second period-2, Los Angeles, Druce 5 (Lang), 4:33. 3, Chicago, Krivokrasov 5 (Amonte, Roenick), 11:17. 4, Chicago, Daze 23 (Suter, Weinrich), 19:28.

Third period-5, Los Angeles, Granato 17 (Gretzky, Boucher), 1:04 (pp). 6, Chicago, Nicholls 7 (Chelios, Suter), 9:21 (pp). 7, Chicago, Weinrich 3 (Sutter, Savard), 15:20.

Shots on goal-Los Angeles 8-7-10-25. Chicago 10-12-12-34.Power-play opp.-Los Angeles 1 of 6; Chicago 1 of 4.Goalies-Los Angeles, Dafoe 10-12-6 (34 shots-29 saves). Chicago, Belfour 12-10-6 (34-32).A-21,850 (20,500).

Mighty Ducks 6, Jets 4 Winnipeg, Manitoba

Winnipeg blew three leads and lost their second straight home game, this time to Anaheim.

Joe Sacco slipped the winner into the upper right corner of the Winnipeg net midway through the third period. Shaun Van Allen scored into an empty net at 19:36, his second of the evening.

David Sacco, Gary Valk and Paul Kariya also scored for Anaheim.

Anaheim 1 2 3 - 6 Winnipeg 2 2 0 - 4

First period-1, Winnipeg, Tkachuk 24 (Selanne, Numminen), 6:30. 2, Winnipeg, Tkachuk 25 (Zhamnov, Maciver), 8:57 (pp). 3, Anaheim, D.Sacco 2, 9:52.

Second period-4, Anaheim, Valk 8 (Kariya, Karpa), :59. 5, Winnipeg, Gilhen 2 (Eastwood, Maciver), 3:08. 6, Anaheim, Kariya 25 (D.Sacco, Valk), 12:08. 7, Winnipeg, Zhamnov 16 (Maciver, Numminen), 16:48 (pp).

Third period-8, Anaheim, Van Allen 5 (J.Sacco), 8:10. 9, Anaheim, J.Sacco 6 (Karpa, Corkum), 10:35. 10, Anaheim, Van Allen 6, 19:46 (en).

Shots on goal-Anaheim 15-10-13-38. Winnipeg 11-14-15-40.Power-play opp.-Anaheim 0 of 4; Winnipeg 2 of 6.Goalies-Anaheim, Hebert 12-15-3 (40 shots-36 saves). Winnipeg, Cheveldae 8-17-3 (37-32).A-10,661 (15,393).

Devils 7, Stars 2 East Rutherford, N.J.

Scott Stevens, Petr Sykora and Valeri Zelepukin scored power-play goals during a 1:57 span early in the third period and New Jersey defeated Dallas.

New Jersey scored five power-play goals to tie a team record set against Pittsburgh on Oct. 29, 1986.

Dallas 0 2 0 - 2 New Jersey 1 1 5 - 7

First period-1, New Jersey, Richer 8 (Holik), 13:30.

Second period-2, Dallas, Harvey 8 (Adams), 1:33. 3, Dallas, Matvichuk 2, 13:14. 4, New Jersey, Guerin 14 (Stevens, Albelin), 16:28, (pp).

Third period-5, New Jersey, Stevens 3 (Sykora, Gurin), 1:09 (pp). 6, New Jersey, Sykora 14 (Thomas, Stevens), 1:50 (pp). 7, New Jersey, Zelepukin 6 (MacLean, Daneyko), 3:06 (pp). 8, New Jersey, Thomas 11 (Sykora, Niedermayer), 10:31 (pp). 9, New Jersey, Thomas 12, 14:55.

Shots on goal-Dallas 11-14-7-32. New Jersey 21-9-19-49.Power-play opp.-Dallas 0 of 5; New Jersey 5 of 10.Goalies-Dallas, Wakaluk 6-12-5 (49 shots-42 saves). New Jersey, Brodeur 16-18-4 (32-30).

Blues 3, Rangers 3 New York

Mike Keenan came back to Madison Square Garden for the first time since leading the Rangers to the Stanley Cup, and New York came back to tie St. Louis.

St. Louis 1 2 0 0 - 3 N.Y. Rangers 1 1 1 0 - 3

First Period-1, New York, Sundstrom 6 (Nemchinov), 7:00. 2, St. Louis, Matteau 8 (Hull, Kravchuk), 15:03 (pp).

Second Period-3, St. Louis, Johnson 8 (Kravchuk, Matteau), 7:23 (pp). 4, St. Louis, Hawerchuk 7 (Kravchuk, Matteau), 12:32 (pp). 5, New York, Verbeek 31 (Driver, Leetch), 15:32.

Third Period-6, New York, Verbeek 32 (Ferraro, Driver), 6:31.

Overtime-None.

Shots on goal-St. Louis 10-12-10-5-37. New York 10-10-20-4-44.Power-play opp.-St. Louis 3 of 8; New York 0 of 6.Goalies-St. Louis, Fuhr 18-16-8 (44 shots-41 saves). New York, Healy 9-3-5 (37-34).A-18,200 (18,200).

Avalanche 4, Flames 4 Denver

German Titov scored with 45 seconds left to offset Colorado’s three-goal rally in the final period.

Calgary 2 1 1 0 - 4 Colorado 1 0 3 0 - 4

First Period-1, Calgary, Kruse 3 (Evason, Ward), 6:16. 2, Calgary, Millen 6 (Roberts, Stillman), 17:42. 3, Colorado, Sakic 30 (penalty shot) 19:30.

Second Period-4, Calgary, Fleury 18, 1:35.

Third Period-5, Colorado, Simon 4 (Yelle, Wolanin), 5:26. 6, Colorado, Kamensky 19 (Sakic, Corbet), 6:54. 7, Colorado, Kamensky 20 (Sakic, Forsberg), 11:30 (pp). 8, Calgary, Titov 14 (Roberts, Fleury), 19:15.

Overtime-None.

Shots on goal-Calgary 11-10-7-3-31. Colorado 13-13-14-2-42.Power-play opp.-Calgary 1 of 7; Colorado 1 of 5.Goalies-Calgary, Kidd 6-15-6 (42 shots-38 saves). Colorado, Fiset 15-4-5 (31-27).A-16,061 (16,061).