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Friday, April 26, 1996
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Penguins win marathon game
Players, fans exhausted after longest NHL game in sixty years finally ends
The Associated Press
LANDOVER, Md. — Night had long ago turned to early morning, and all that remained of the sellout crowd was a few thousand fans who had been waiting more than three hours to see someone put the puck in the net.
Who would win? And would the Zamboni run out of gas before the players did?
As the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins entered the fourth overtime of their Stanley Cup playoff game, only two questions remained:
The Penguins and Capitals might as well go directly to Game 6 of their playoff series, because Game 4 was the equivalent of two games — and then some. By the time the marathon ended in the wee hours yesterday morning, many of the fans who had dinner at the USAir Arena six hours earlier were ready for breakfast.
Pittsburgh goaltender Ken Wregget didn't start the game but ended up with a franchise-record 53 saves in the Penguins' 3-2 victory.
Wregget and Washington goalie Olaf Kolzig kept the game scoreless for the equivalent of a game-and-a-half before Petr Nedved scored a power-play goal with 44.6 seconds left in the
fourth overtime to end the longest NHL game in six decades.
"It was anybody's game. Anything could have happened there at anytime." Wregget said.
tightly hippeous in NHL history. There was a penalty shot in overtime.
Mild-mannered Mario Lemieux lost his cool,
got into a fight and missed the final 100 minutes.
Kolzig stopped 62 shots, a franchise record,
and still took the loss.
"I played in a double-overtime game in the minors three years ago, and we ended up winning that game. That was not anything close to this," Kolzig said. "I'm tired and I'm frustrated, but that was one heck of a hockey game."
It started at 7:38 p.m. and mercifully ended at 2:15 a.m. the fans that stuck it out had to do so without food or drink, because the concession stands shut down well before midnight.
Pittsburgh out shot Washington 65-63 and tied the best-of-7 series at 2-2. Game 5 is today in Pittsburgh, and there's some question as to whether the players will recover in time.
Then again, there's a certain lift that comes from winning, and the Penguins have got that winning feeling after losing the first two games of the series.
"I'm sure the Penguin players could go out on the ice and play it all over again, they are on such a high," Capitals coach Jim Schoenfeld said. Well, not too sharply.
right, capitals coach Jim Schoene
Well, not exactly.
Well, not exactly.
"I'm about four hours past my bedtime," said Pittsburgh's Ron Francis. "That was a long, long hockey game."
The only two games that went longer were in 1933 and 1936. Both those games went to six overtimes.
The Penguins prevailed despite playing the final five periods without Lernieux, who was given a game misconduct for punching Todd Krygier with 36.2 seconds left in the second period.
Lemieux would not talk to the media after the game, but Kryder had plenty to say.
"What he did was vicious and wrong, I barely even touched him, and he jumped all over me," Krygier said. "I think Mario should be suspended."
Loung after I dumped seated.
Lemieux received 10 minutes in penalties — he had 64 during the entire regular season — and failed to register a point for only the 10th time in 70 career playoff games.
Long after Lemieux departed, Joe Juneau took the first overtime penalty shot in Stanley Cup history. He got the chance at 15:44 of the second extra period after Pittsburgh's Chris Tamer was called for knocking the net off its moorings to prevent a goal.
Juneau skated in and shot the puck right into Wregge, who easily made the save.
"The puck bounced on him. He didn't really get a shot away at all," Wregget said. "I got lucky on that one ... It could have very easily been over right there."
Hours later, the game finally did end.
"I'm not sure either club had too much left in them," Pittsburgh coach Ed Johnston said. "I really don't know where they found the energy to play the way they did."
Rivalry garners respect rather than hatred
Chicago and Miami differ by the separate styles of coaching
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Phil Jackson and Pat Riley don't like each other. But they don't hate each other, either.
"I don't give him much thought," Riley said. "It's nothing personal."
There is respect, however. That comes from shared history and years of spirited competition.
"We have been in each other's way in the process of trying to win championships," Jackson said. "We love to compete against each other. We like to test our wills."
NBA
The Battle of Coaching Titans, Part IV, begins tonight, when Jackson's record-setting Chicago Bulls open a best-of-five first-round playoff series against Riley's underdog Miami Heat.
Jackson, whose .721 winning percentage leads all coaches in pro sports history, is looking to cap an unprecedented 72-victory season with his fourth NBA title.
Riley, second behind Jackson at .702 but No. 1 in playoff victories with 137, must pull off a string of upsets to win a fifth championship.
Riley's four titles came with the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1980s; he hasn't won one since Jackson became Chicago's coach seven years ago.
In 1992 and 1993, the Bulls knocked Riley's New York Knicks out of the Eastern Conference playoffs and went on to win championships.
In 1994, Riley prevailed in a grueling seven-game series, but New York lost to Houston in the finals.
All three playoff meetings were "fast and furious and very physical," said Riley, who last September became the Heat's coach, president and part owner. "It got a little ugly at times, which all rivalties do because of the nature of the competition."
The acrimony between the coaches grew when Jackson made sure everyone knew that the ugliness was Riley's doing.
"Riley teaches that beat-em-up style," Bulls guard Steve Kerr said. "Phil preaches a more fluid style, with a lot of speed and quickness, a more pure style of play. And Phil likes to point that out."
Publicly criticizing Riley's coaching philosophy was probably unfair, in retrospect, Jackson said this week. "But it was probably too serious and too warlike for my nature, so the animosity was built."
Riley stoked the fire by forbidding his New York players from consorting with Jackson's. Even Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley, two of Michael Jordan's best friends, were to maintain their distance.
"I'm from an old school." Riley said. "It has nothing to do with respect. I don't want them (players) to get in some mindless conversation."
Heat players, just learning what Riley is about, say they don't sense that their coach is any more intense as he prepares for Jackson.
The Bulls, however, know Jackson is ready to meet his rival.
"We can see Phil is into the game," Jordan said. "We can understand it's one trying to outdo the other. We want to make sure ... it's no comparison."
For the record, Jackson is 24-18 against Riley. One of the defeats came this season, when the Bulls lost only 10 times.
Though Miami was only 42-40 — the first time in Riley's 14-year career that he didn't win 50 games — the team was 18-11 after Riley made his second major trade of the season.
"This is not going to be one of those series that is going to go away easily," Jackson said. "We're both
going to roll up our sleeves and compete against each other, almost like these players are."
Coaching style isn't the only thing that differentiates the two.
The smooth Riley, with his slicked-back hair and Armani suits, looks like he stepped out of a made-for-TV movie.
A fiery motivator, Riley recently delivered a pregame speech that Heat forward Keith Askins said still gave him goose bumps.
Jackson, a former flower child with a Montana mountain man look, is a laid-back proponent of Zen meditation. He chooses his words carefully and encourages his players to find motivation from within.
"He lets you be yourself," said enigmatic forward Dennis Rodman.
But the biggest difference, as Jackson sees it, is in their bank accounts.
Riley is getting $3 million annually from the Heat, and also reportedly has a $25 million interest in the team.
Jackson, trying to negotiate a new deal with the Bulls, is being paid $850,000 in the final year of a contract that ranks in the middle of the NBA coaching pack.
"Every time Pat has moved into a new job, he's established a landmark for salaries," Jackson said. "We all owe a certain amount of debt to him."
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers, who owned the most dominant left-hander in baseball 30 years ago and have been managed for the last 20 years by a former left pitcher named Tom Lasorda, haven't had a southpaw start for them in more than three years.
Next game will tie team's own record without a southpaw
The Associated Press
"Evidently it's been difficult. We haven't been able to get one," Lasorda said. "But, hey,
you have to do the best
you can with
what you
have. Cleveland won
the pennant
(in 1954)
and won more games than any Dodgers
When Pedro Astacio throws his first pitch tonight against the Chicago Cubs, the Dodgers will tie their own modern major league mark of 453 consecutive games started by a right-hander. Tom Candiotti gets the record-breaking assignment tomorrownight.
team in the history of the American League — and they had all right-handers."
"I'm proud to be part of any record in baseball," Candiotti said with a laugh. "Ever since I was a kid, I've always enjoyed reading about it and learning as much as I could about the history of baseball. So in a way, it's kind of nice to be a part of history."
Candiotti and Astacio, who have been with the Dodgers throughout the streak, are among 10 different pitchers to start for them during that span. The others are Orel Hershiser, Kevin Gross, Kip Gross, brothers Ramon and Pedro Martinez, Ismael Valdes, Hideo Nomo and Chan Ho Park. Park made his first major league start on April 11, after Ramon Martinez went onto the disabled list with a strained groin.
"The right-handers have come through the organization with the most promise — guys like Ismael, Ramon and Pedro Astacio," Candiotti said. "Then there are the acquisitions of Chan Ho and Nomo, and in the wings is Darsen Dreifort. It's kind of unusual, but in a way, it's probably because of the way the
Dodgers have drafted."
Incredibly, the organization has not developed a quality left-handed starter since Fernando Valenzuela. Among the lefty prospects now in the Dodgers' minor league system are Gary Rath (Triple-A), Hawaiian-born Onan Masaoka (Class A) and Australian-born Kym Ashworth (Class A), who pitched a no-hitter for Bakersfield in 1994 and will miss part of this season after undergoing arthroscopic surgery.
"I don't think they're trying to go out and get right-handers or left-handers. I just think they're to get the best starters they can get," Candiotti said.
"There are some teams that are packed with left-handed hitters, like the Braves, but would you rather have a mediocre left-hander in your rotation just to break that up, or a quality right-hander to go against them? That's the view the Dodgers have taken, and I think it's been pretty successful."
The Dodgers' original streak of consecutive right-handed starters ran from Oct. 2, 1902 through April 14, 1906. Kevin Gross started the current one on Sept. 25, 1992 against the Houston Astros, one night after Bob Ojeda got a no-decision in an 8-4 loss to Cincinnati at Dodger Stadium.
Right-handers make history for Dodgers
"It doesn't surprise me—not with the quality of people they have here," said Joey Eischen, one of three lefties in the Dodger bullpen along with Mark Gutrie and Scott Radinsky. "All those guys are quality pitchers and they know how to pitch. The starters on this staff all have something they do extremely well. If they were on other staffs, they'd be the number one pitchers, respectively."
Eischen started in winter ball and was being mentioned in trade discussions by the Seattle Mariners, who would use him in that role. So would the Dodgers — if anything else happened to one of their starters.
"I'd imagine, in an emergency situation, I might be the guy they turn to because I'm the long man in the bullpen and the guy they call on if somebody runs into trouble in the first or second inning," Eischen said. "So it wouldn't surprise me because 'I'm throwing the ball well right now."
"But I hope nothing else happens to our starters. I'm happy with where I'm at right now and I just want the team to win. If that calls for me to be a long relief man, then I'll do that."
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