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KANATA, Ontario (AP) -- Valeri Bure just about did it all for the
Calgary Flames.
|  | | Calgary's Steve Dubinsky takes Ottawa's Janne Laukkanen, right, out of the play. |
Bure scored one goal and assisted on three others, including
Jeff Shantz's overtime winner, to lead the Flames to a 4-3 victory
over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.
"We just made the simple plays and once we turned it up, good
things happened," said Bure.
Shantz had two goals and Phil Housley added a goal and two
assists for the Flames (3-7-2-0), who are 2-3-0 on a six-game road
trip.
Andre Roy, Magnus Arvedson and Radek Bonk scored for the
Senators (6-3-1-1), who lost at home for the first time in six
games.
Bure set up power-play goals just 36 seconds apart in the second
period by Housley and Shantz to tie the game 2-2.
Then, with the Flames trailing 3-2 midway through the third,
Bure broke in on goaltender Ron Tugnutt and poked in his own
rebound off Tugnutt's mask while falling. The goal was Bure's ninth, just one behind
league-leading Brian Savage of the Montreal Canadiens.
"We knew when we traded for him last year he had big-time
character," said Flames coach Brian Sutter. "He always plays the
same."
In overtime, Bure carried the puck deep into the Senators'
end and threw it in front, where Shantz poked the puck under
Tugnutt's pads 3:07 into the extra period.
Calgary outshot the Senators 37-28.
"They were finishing their checks, shooting pucks, driving to
the net," said Roy, who scored Ottawa's first goal after picking
up a loose puck in front of Grant Fuhr. "In overtime, they had
wings."
After Arvedson beat Fuhr on a screened shot to give Ottawa a two-goal lead in the first period, Calgary took advantage of Senators penalties with power-play goals by Housley and Shantz just 36 seconds apart to tie the game.
Ottawa's penalty-killers entered the game ranked second in the league at 90.6 percent, while Calgary's power play ranked 13th at 18 percent. Calgary finished 2-for-2 on the power play and Ottawa was 0-for-3.
"We got a 2-0 lead and then we stopped playing," said Bonk, who gave the Senators a 3-2 lead with a breakaway goal at 15:33 of the second. "We didn't get going at all, we should have won that game.
"Now, we just have to forget it."
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