By THE CANADIAN PRESS
The World Hockey Association's regular-season all but ended Sunday with Bobby Hull and Andre Lacroix both finishing with scoring records.
The season officially ends tonight with a meaningless game between Houston Aeros and Baltimore Blades.
The best-of-seven quarterfinal playoff lineup has Cleveland at Houston, Phoenix at Quebec, Minnesota at New England and Toronto at San Diego for the first two games.
The New England and San Diego openers are set for Wednesday. Houston for Thursday and Quebec has yet to announce whether it will open Wednesday or Thursday.
In Sunday's final games, the 5-5 overtime tie at Winnipeg had little Io contribute to the final standings but it contained the final battle for the scoring records.
Hull scored his record 77th goal of the season for Winnipeg Jets against San Diego Mariners while the Mariner's Andre Lacroix wound up his league scoring title with 41 goals and a record 106 assists.
Hull's goal scoring surpassed the pro hockey record of 76 scored by Phil Esposito of the National Hockey League Boston Bruins in the 1970-71 season.
in that same season, Esposito's team-mate Bobby Orr had the pro record of 102 assists in one season which Lacroix surpassed by four.
In other games Sunday, Houston Aeros beat Toronto Toros 5-2, Minnesota Fighting Saints defeated Baltimore 6-5, Vancouver Blazers beat Indianapolis Racers 4-3 and Edmonton Oilers beat Chicago Cougars 6-3.
Hull had tied Esposito's mark with his 76th goal in a 9-5 Jets loss to the Nordiques at Quebec Saturday night. In other Saturday games, San Diego beat Indianapolis 8-3, Houston defeated Minnesota 8-2. Cleveland Crusaders beat New England Whalers 5-2, Baltimore upsel Phoenix Roadrunners 7-6 and Vancouver edged Edmonton 3-2.
Hull's final goal in the last minute of the second period came on a 30-foot shot past San Diego goalie Russ Gillow. 11 gave the Jets a 3-3 tie and they went ahead 4-3 midway in the third period before Lacroix, who had two assists in the game, scored his 41st goal.
Winnipeg's Mike Ford made it 5-4 for the Jets with less than four minutes remaining but Lacroix helped set up Rick Sales for his 44th goal of the season and second of the night to lie the game at 18:40 and the clubs went scoreless through the overtime.