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Show DAILY HERALD FAST FACT On this date in 1972,Bill Walton scored 24points to lead UCLA to an 81-76 victory over Florida State and the NCAA basketball title. 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Released otlocke Hockey League ATLANTA THRASHERS.“easge AW Raa ‘Avid to Chicago ofthe AHL NHLROUNDUP~ gets record, but Panthers get win Save BIG on bikes, nenscored in the third round of a shootout to give the SUNRISE,Fla. — Olli Joki- since Milan Hejduk had 50 for Coloradoin 2002-03. Calgary's Jarome Iginla, Nashville's Rick Nash and Atlanta’s Ilya Kovalchuk tied for the league lead Florida Panthers a 3-2 victory with 41 in 2003-04, the last sea- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS over the New York Rangers on Friday night in a gamethat saw Jaromir Jagr becomethe NHL'sfirst 50-goal scorer since 2002-03. Petr Sykora scored for New Yorkin the shootout, but Michael Nylander and Jagr missed. Nathan Horton also scored for Florida and Jozef St | missed. After Jagr’s _shot wentjust wide, Jokinen put the puck past ae Weekes for “the deciding goal. pr ye TSE) rue © 614-1222 eer 224-8306 oe Dailies closed within points of Atlanta for the ae and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, while the Rangers earned a point to movea point ahead of Philadelphia forfirst place in the Atlan- son before the lockout. Sykoraalso scored in regulation for New York and Weekes had 40 saves. Horton and Gregory Campbell scored for the Panthers and Roberto Luongo had 26 saves. D Penguins 4, Islanders 3: At Pittsburgh, Sidney Crosby scored with1:32 left in overtime for the Crosby, who earlier hit the post with Islandersgoalie Rick DiPietro out ofthe net less than a minuteinto overtime,collected the puck in his own end and led a 2-on-1 break with Armstrong against New York defenseman Radek Martinek. Crosby’s wrister from just inside the left-wing circle beat DiPietroon the short side for Ae rookie sere 32ndgoal of Jagr opened the scoring with 5:27 left in the first period. The Czech star scored 50 tl goals for the third time in his Ryan Malone, Andy Hilcareer and became only the _bert and Sergei Gonchar also scored for Pittsburgh. Jason third player in Rangers history to accomplish the feat. Vic Blake, Trent Hunter and Sean Hadfield had 50 in 1971-72, and payenneis Seared for New Adam Graves scored 52 goals in or} 1993-94. Islanders,w! Jagralso is the first player havelost three of ‘theta ieioe to score 50 goals in a season, games. » Devils 4, Bruins 2: At East Rutherford, N.J., Scott Gomez brokeout of a scoringdrought with a goal andan assist and Scott Clemmensen wonin his first Ce for New Jersey since Se anight whenthe Devils retired former defenseman Ken Daneyko’s No.3, they won for just the second timein their last seven games. They are seventh in the Eastern Conference, three points aheadofeighthplace Atlanta. Brian Gionta, Zach Parise and Paul Martin also scored for New Jersey, and Clemmensen stopped 25 shots. Glen Murray andBrad Isbister scored for Boston. ) Senators 3, Sabres 1: At Buf- Blue Jackets 3, Flames 2: At Columbus,Ohio, Jason Chimera scored his career-high 15th goal with 2:47 left to help the Blue Jackets enda five-gamelosing os ne y Malhotra and Nikolai Thesealso scored, and Adam Footetied a career high with three assists. Chuck Kobasew and Daymond Langkow scored for Calgary. » Stars 3, Blackhawks 2: At Dallas, Brenden Morrow scored in the eighth round ofa shootout to give Dallas its 11th victory ee ae in the NHL's new iebreaker. wchago Matthew Barnaby and Dallas’ Sergei Zubov converted in the first round,but falo, Ne Ray Emery made 28 saves and Daniel Alfredsson, Antoine Vermette andPatrick Eaves scored to help Ottawa an asave spot. Eastern Conference-leadingpeace wontheir fourth straight to improveto 12-1-1 in their last 14 games. Ottawa moved 27 points aheadof ninthplace Montreal, which has 13 games remaining. Daniel Briere scored the lone goal for Buffalo, which has lost four straight, matching the team’s longest losing streak this season, Hedbergof the Stars were perfect in the next six rounds. Hedberg denied Kyle Calder leading off the eighth round be- fore Morrow’'s shot went in off 's arm. Zubov and Boucher had power-“play goals to help the Stars win forthe ninth time in |