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RANGERS 3, Sabres 3
BrownÕs fluke goal rallyÕs Sabres to tie
NEW YORK (AP) -- Curtis Brown's fluke goal late in the third period completed a third-period rally for Buffalo as the Sabres and New York Rangers played to a 3-3 tie Wednesday night.
With 3:11 left in regulation and New York's John MacLean off for high-sticking, Brown sent a shot from the left boards that Mike Richter deflected with his stick off the leg of teammate Eric Lacroix and into the net for Brown's 16th goal.
The Sabres, who have the league's worst power play, were 1-for-4 with the man advantage.
The Rangers were ahead 3-1 starting the final period before Michael Peca's 17th goal got Buffalo within one.
Neither team could score during a frenetic overtime that saw Dominik Hasek make two sprawling saves.
Jan Hlavac scored twice in a three-minute span of the second period for the Rangers, who tallied all three goals within 4:59.
New York, with 65 points, wasted a chance to increase their lead over the Sabres to three points in the race for the Eastern Conference playoffs. Both teams have 17 games remaining.
Hasek was 4-0-3 after missing 40 games with a groin injury, but is 1-2-1 including a loss and tie to New York since. Before Friday's home defeat, Hasek was 7-0-3 with five shutouts in his last 10 starts against the Rangers.
Richter made 34 saves for New York and robbed Vladimir Tsyplakov with 44 seconds left in regulation. The Rangers were outshot by Buffalo 37-31.
It again was the Rangers' Czech Republic line of Hlavac, Petr Nedved and Radek Dvorak that victimized countryman Hasek.
On Friday, Nedved had his third hat trick of the season in the Rangers' 6-3 win, and this time he set up Hlavac twice within 2:27.
With the game tied at 1, Nedved started a 2-on-1 after forcing a turnover by Brian Holzinger at the New York blue line. He skated in with Hlavac and fed a cross-ice pass into the left circle. Hlavac's high shot beat Hasek at 13:01.
Then Nedved pressured defenseman Alexei Zhitnik into making a terrible pass from behind the net that went right to Dvorak in the right circle. Dvorak quickly passed to Hlavac for a one-timer that made it 3-1.
The Czechmates line has 37 goals and 45 assists in 27 games since being formed on Jan. 5. Hlavac, second to teammate Mike York among rookies with 17 goals, has accounted for 13 goals and 11 assists.
Peca, who also had a hat trick Friday, made it 3-2 at 7:31 of the third.
Buffalo took a 1-0 lead in the first, a period in which the Sabres outworked the Rangers at both ends of the ice.
Vaclav Varada made a perfect pass through the goal mouth to Tsyplakov, who tapped in his eighth goal from the left side of the net at 4:53.
Adam Graves scored his 19th goal at 10:29 during a power play to tie it and start the second-period onslaught.
Summary
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Buffalo 1 0 2 0--3
NY Rangers 0 3 0 0--3
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Tsyplakov 8 (Varada, Peca), 4:53.
Penalties: Leetch, Nyr (hooking), 9:18; Quintal, Nyr (tripping), 14:00.
SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 2, NY Rangers, Graves 19 (power play) (Leetch,
Fleury), 10:29. 3, NY Rangers, Hlavac 16 (Nedved), 13:01. 4, NY Rangers,
Hlavac 17 (Dvorak, Nedved), 15:28. Penalties: Rasmussen, Buf
(interference), 2:00; Grand-pierre, Buf (interference), 4:37; Woolley, Buf
(slashing), 10:07.
THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 5, Buffalo, Peca 17 (Varada, Tsyplakov), 7:31.
6, Buffalo, Brown 16 (power play) (D Ward, Satan), 16:49. Penalties: J
Maclean, Nyr (Obstr hooking), 2:31; Zhitnik, Buf (slashing), 3:41; Varada,
Buf (slashing), 10:06; Leetch, Nyr (slashing), 10:06; Tsyplakov, Buf
(tripping), 12:38; J Maclean, Nyr (high sticking), 16:30.
OVERTIME -- Scoring: None.
Shots on goal:
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Buffalo 8 10 16 3--37
NY Rangers 7 12 9 3--31
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Power-play Conversions: Buf - 1 of 4, Nyr - 1 of 5. Goalies: Buffalo,
Hasek (31 shots, 28 saves; record: 6-6-5). NY Rangers, Richter (37, 34;
record: 20-23-8). A:18,200. Referees: Jackson, Ohalloran. Linesmen:
Morin, Sericolo.
INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS
Buffalo NY Rangers
G A +/- Shots G A +/- Shots
B Holzinger 0 0 -2 0 Daigle 0 0 even 0
Brown 1 0 -1 1 Dvorak 0 1 +2 0
D Ward 0 1 -1 2 Fleury 0 1 even 8
Grand-pierre 0 0 +1 1 Graves 1 0 even 5
Mckee 0 0 -1 0 Hatcher 0 0 -1 0
Patrick 0 0 -1 0 Hlavac 2 0 +2 2
Peca 1 1 +2 5 J Maclean 0 0 even 2
Primeau 0 0 even 0 Kamensky 0 0 even 0
Rasmussen 0 0 even 0 Knuble 0 0 -2 1
Ray 0 0 even 1 Lacroix 0 0 -2 1
S Barnes 0 0 even 4 Leetch 0 1 +1 3
Sanderson 0 0 even 2 Lefebvre 0 0 even 0
Satan 0 1 -2 4 Nedved 0 2 +2 4
Smehlik 0 0 even 4 Pilon 0 0 -1 1
Tsyplakov 1 1 +2 5 Quintal 0 0 +1 1
Varada 0 2 +2 2 Schneider 0 0 even 3
Woolley 0 0 +1 4 Taylor 0 0 -2 0
Zhitnik 0 0 even 2 York 0 0 even 0
R Warrener Groin Johnsson Healthy
Grosek Groin Malhotra Healthy
Roloson Healthy Langdon Abdominal
Afinogenov Healthy Doig Knee Injury
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