HAWKS NOTES

Forward Ed Olczyk left yesterday for Moscow, where he will playfor Team USA in the World Championship tournament. Olczyk did nothave a point in the playoffs against Toronto. . . . Defenseman DougWilson and center Denis Savard have been invited to join Team Canadain Moscow. Neither is likely to go. Savard has a broken finger.Wilson's wife, Kathy, is expecting their second child any day. . . .Repeating a favorite theme, GM-coach Bob Pulford said center TomLysiak "maybe was our best player." But he would not say whetherLysiak, 32, would be back next year. "That was just a statement,"Pulford said. "I don't know if he'll be back. I don't know if hewants to be back. I do know he was one of the players who playedhard in the playoffs." Lysiak's contract expires this summer.

The Hawks will change their approach to acquiring players thisyear. They will make a strong effort to sign free agents fromAmerican colleges and universities, as the Calgary Flames have doneso successfully. The Hawks' college scout, Jim Pappin, was a strongadvocate of signing Illinois-Chicago's Ray Staszak last year.Staszak signed with Detroit, didn't make that club, and spent most ofthe year in the American Hockey League. . . . Pulford said he "hadno qualms" about starting Murray Bannerman in goal for the final gameagainst Toronto, though Bannerman aggravated a groin injury in Game2. "He assured me he was OK, and he's the type of guy who is capableof playing that big game," Pulford said. "I feel very strongly thatwas the right thing to do." . . . He did tell Bannerman to get hisright knee "fixed" this summer, though he denied Bannerman would needsurgery. "He had a bad knee all year, and I said we couldn't gothrough another year like that," Pulford said.