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NEW YORK (AP) -- Tim Taylor got some quick revenge on the Calgary Flames.
|  | | New York's Tim Taylor, left, and Alexandre Daigle celebrate Taylor's game-winning goal in overtime. |
The Flames nearly knocked Taylor out of the game on his first
shift Monday night, but saw him return and score the winning goal
to give the New York Rangers a 3-2 victory over Calgary.
Taylor took a blindside hit from Denis Gauthier in the first
minute that took him out of action for the rest of the period, but
he returned in the second and then won the game 32 seconds into
overtime.
Taylor's heroics would not have been possible without Adam
Graves, who tied the score with 35.2 seconds remaining in
regulation time.
"I think as a team we are really finding our mix," Taylor
said. "Earlier this team did not have a character. We were just
kind of floating. In the last three games, we are fighting for
every inch and we are realizing as a team that we are not going to
win if we don't."
The victory gave the struggling Rangers a three-game unbeaten
streak despite the absence of injured stars Brian Leetch, Petr
Nedved and Valeri Kamensky.
Taylor took a cross-ice pass from Alexandre Daigle, who assisted
on all three Rangers goals, knocked the bouncing puck to the ice in
the left faceoff circle and beat Calgary goaltender Fred Brathwaite
low to the stick side for his fifth goal.
"It was very tough to swallow," Brathwaite said. "The guy
just came down the wing, got the pass. It was a weak goal by me."
With Rangers goaltender Mike Richter pulled for an extra skater,
Graves converted a goal-mouth pass from Daigle to send the game into
overtime with his seventh goal of the season.
The loss was Calgary's first in nine overtime games this season
(6-1-2).
"We did it to some other teams this year," Bill Lindsay said.
"That's the first overtime game we lost. We still got the point,
which makes it easier to take. To get no points out of a game like
that would have really hurt. That's why you see teams going for it
this year in overtime. Teams run and gun and try for the points."
Calgary took a 1-0 lead at 13:10 of the first period on former Ranger Marc
Savard's fifth goal of the season. After Richter appeared to stop a
wraparound stuff-in attempt by Andrei Nazarov, Savard pried the
puck loose and slid it into the far corner.
Jarome Iginla made it 2-0 with his sixth goal of the season when
he converted from the right faceoff circle off a pass from Lindsay
at 18:42 of the second period.
New York pulled closed to 2-1 only 49 seconds later when Mathieu
Schneider's blue line slap shot on a five-on-three power play eluded
Braithwaite for his third goal of the season.
"It was a big win for us," said Theo Fleury, a Calgary star
for many seasons. "Calgary came in here and they were playing
very, very well, and we didn't go away. We played hard and we
finally got a break at the end of the game."
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