HOCKEY Flames have trouble scoring

Calgary has been shutout in four of its seven losses.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Suddenly, the Calgary Flames can't score -- at all.
The Flames lost their seventh straight game Thursday night when they fell 3-1 to Edmonton. That was almost a moral victory though, since the Flames were shut out in four of the seven losses. Calgary managed only three goals in the streak.
"We can't just sit here and cry about losing games, because that's not going to make it any better," Flames captain Craig Conroy said. "Whose going to do it for us? Nobody is going to do it, except for ourselves. We have to come out and keep playing the same way and eventually we're going to get the breaks."
During this slump, the Flames have received good goaltending that went to waste. Twice they lost 1-0 -- including once in overtime. Calgary managed only one goal in three other losses.
"I went through a 10-game losing streak while I was playing with the Islanders and it's not fun," coach Greg Gilbert said. "You start to question yourself and hesitate, you're really tense and you're more focused on bad things happening than just going out and playing and taking control of the fate."
Many happy returns
Jason Woolley is making the most of his return to Michigan.
Woolley got out of Buffalo after agreeing to a $125,000 pay cu, when the cost-cutting Sabres agreed to deal the defenseman to the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings last Saturday.
Even with less money, Woolley wasn't deterred from donating $115,000 to Michigan State, where he played from 1989-91.
Woolley's gift, to the university's College of Osteopathic Medicine, was given in appreciation of the "compassion and professional care" he received from Lynn Brumm, a retired professor who treated him for a variety of hockey injuries.
Not only did Woolley return to a familiar place, he also was reunited with a recognizable face.
Woolley and new Red Wings teammate Brendan Shanahan were also members of the same pee-wee league team in Ontario. They are now looking toward San Jose to try to reunite with another player from that talent-packed team.
"Now we just have to get Bryan Marchment and we'd have our entire pee-wee team together," Shanahan said of the Sharks forward.
Buffalo received a conditional draft pick from the Red Wings for Woolley and was able to wipe his $1,425,000 salary off their books.
The NHL finally chose Buffalo businessman Mark Hamister to buy the troubled franchise on Wednesday. The league took over operating control of the Sabres from John Rigas in June.