Monday, May 3, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B·Page 5
NHL
Penguins still in playoffs
Late goals by Jagr help set up pivotal game 7
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Give the save to Jaromir Jagr
Jagr, visibly slowed by a groin injury that sidelined him for four games, scored an electrifying tying goal with only 2:12 left in regulation, then won it in overtime at the Pittsburgh Penguins staved off playoff elimination by beating the New Jersey Devils 3-2 Sunday.
The Penguins, on the verge not only of elimination but of possible extinction as the franchise's fate is being decided in bankruptcy court, now will play in game seven Tuesday night in New Jersey that seemed improbable when the Devils took a 2-1 lead on Rob Niiedermayer's goal at 4:34 of the third.
Jagr's two-goal performance on a day he was not even expected to play will no doubt go down in NHL playoff history not only for its brilliance, but its unlikelihood.
Jagr said Saturday that he was pessimistic of playing not only Sunday but for the rest of the series. But, despite being less than 100 percent, he played regular shifts and wound up scoring the Penguins' two biggest goals of the series.
With time winding down in regulation and the Devils in control, Jagr tied it by carrying the puck into the
Devils' zone, then getting it back from German Titov and scoring as Niedermayer left him undefended to cover Titov.
Jagr, whose goal shifted the momentum to the Penguins, then won the game at 8:59 of overtime. Martin Straka carried the puck down the left wing boards before threading it on the opposite side to Jagr, who beat goaltender Martin Brodeur high.
For New Jersey, the defeat reawakened memories of the top-seeded Devils' stunning first-round playoff ouster by Ottawa a year ago.
The Penguins, outplayed in the first period throughout the series, were clearly buoyed by Jagr's return and had several good early scoring chances, only to see their momentum blunted by an elbowing penalty on Jagr at 8:10.
The Devils did not score on that power play, but did take a 1-0 lead at 12:04 on Sergei Bryalin's backhander off Bobby Holik's one-handed pass from behind the net.
With the Penguins again content to let the bigger Devils control the tempo by failing to answer their physical play, Pittsburgh could not tie it until Martin Straka scored his fifth goal of the series at 6:44 of the second.
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Straka, left alone at the side of the crease for several seconds, directed Alexei Kovalev's pass by Brodeur and — at least momentarily — got the less-than-capacity crowd of 15.376 back into the game.
Penguins goaltender Tom Barrasso stopped 25 shots and was not beaten on any of the long shots that the Devils were successful in scoring earlier in the series.
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Blues tame Coyotes, tie series
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ST. LOUIS — Defenseman Jeff Finley, who scored only one goal in the regular season, broke a third-period tie as the St. Louis Blues forced game
seven of their first round series with a 5-3 victory against the Phoenix Coyotes yesterday.
Craig Conroy scored in the first
period and added a third-period goal for the Blues, who have won two straight after falling behind 3-1 in the series. They will try to complete the climb and avoid a fourth first-round exit in six seasons tomorrow night.
Such comebacks used to be extremely rare, but six teams, including the Blues in 1991, have done it this decade. The Coyotes have not made it out of the first round since
1987, when they were in Winnipeg, and coughed up a 3-1 series lead in 1990 and 92.
Finley had a goal and two assists in 30 regular-season games with the Blues and has only eight goals in 385 career games. Until this game he also had been one of the Blues' weak links on defense.
But he had two big shots in the crucial sequence. Nikolai Khabibulin stopped Finley's first drive from the left point, but Pierre Turgeon gathered in the rebound and swept a backhand pass out front. Finley skated in a few strides before blasting the game-winner at 8:59.
Conroy made it a two-goal lead on a rebound with 4:11 to go.
Scott Young, who got the winner in overtime in game five, had a goal and an assist for the Blues. Turgeon, a disappointment most of the series, had three assists as the Blues perhaps surprised a crowd of 16,629, their smallest in the playoffs since April 22, 1992.
The Blues had lost their last five playoff games at home, dropping games three and four to Phoenix and falling three times in the second round against Detroit last season.
Mike Stapleton, Stephen Leach and Teppo Numminen scored for the Coyotes. Dallas Drake, who leads the Coyotes with four goals and three assists, failed to score for the first time in the series.
Stapleton gave the Coyotes the early lead with his first career playoff goal at 2:20, blasting a slap shot over Fuhr's left shoulder. The Blues answered 36 seconds later as Conroy scored on a 2-on-1 break, and St. Louis took the lead on Young's power-play goal at 8:25.
Turgeon faked a shot before feeding the puck in the slot to Young, who had the winner in overtime in game five.
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