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Rangers Use Overtime To Rally Past Wings

Associated Press

NHL

Pat Verbeek scored a power-play goal 27 seconds into overtime as the New York Rangers wasted a third-period lead for the first time this season and then rallied to beat the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 Friday night.

New York had successfully held 14 third-period leads before Friday night’s game.

Ray Ferraro had scored in the first period and Mike Richter, playing another strong game, made the 1-0 lead stand up until Greg Johnson scored at 11:02 of the third.

The Rangers extended their home-ice unbeaten streak to 12 (10-0-2) and stopped Detroit’s six-game winning streak.

New York 2, Red Wings 1 (OT)

Detroit 0 0 1 0 - 1

N.Y. Rangers 1 0 0 1 - 2

First Period-1, New York, Ferraro 13, 7:50.

Second Period-None.

Third Period-2, Detroit, Johnson 12 (Primeau, Coffey), 11:02.

Overtime-3, New York, Verbeek 19 (Leetch, Messier), :27 (pp).

Shots on goal-Detroit 9-7-18-0-34. New York 11-6-6-1-24.Power-play opp.-Detroit 0 of 8; New York 1 of 7.Goalies-Detroit, Osgood 12-3-1 (24 shots-22 saves). New York, Richter 12-7-3 (34-33).A-18,200 (18,200).

Capitals 2, Sabres 2 (OT) Buffalo, N.Y.

Yuri Khmylev’s goal with 2:44 left in the game gave Buffalo a tie.

Khmylev was left alone with the puck and sent a hard slap shot from about 30 feet sailing past Capitals goaltender Jim Carey.

Peter Bondra gave the Capitals the lead with 1:37 left in the second period.

Washington 1 1 0 0 - 2

Buffalo 1 0 1 0 - 2

First Period-1, Buffalo, Zhitnik 3 (LaFontaine, Khmylev), 4:43. 2, Washington, Jones 9 (Hunter, Cote), 17:32.

Second Period-3, Washington, Bondra 14 (Witt, Pivonka), 18:23.

Third Period-4, Buffalo, Khmylev 5, 17:16 (pp).

Overtime-None.

Shots on goal-Washington 16-23-8-1-52. Buffalo 13-5-12-0-26.Power-play opp.-Washington 1 of 6; Buffalo 1 of 7.Goalies-Washington, Carey 9-9-3 (26 shots-24 saves). Buffalo, Hasek 10-10-3 (52-50).A-11,787 (16,230).

Lightning 3, Bruins 1 St. Petersburg, Fla.

Rookie Aaron Gavey broke a 1-1 tie by scoring his second goal of the season at 11:32 of the third period.

Boston 0 1 0 - 1

Tampa Bay 0 1 2 - 3

First period-None.

Second period-1, Boston, Bourque 11 (Oates, Leach), 5:02. 2, Tampa Bay, Klima 11 (Hamrlik, Bradley), 13:46 (pp).

Third period-3, Tampa Bay, Gavey 2 (Weimer, Bellows), 11:32 (pp). 4, Tampa Bay, Ysebaert 10 (Bradley, Zamuner), 14:54.

Shots on goal-Boston 9-7-9-25. Tampa Bay 12-12-9-33.Power-play opp.-Boston 0 of 4; Tampa Bay 2 of 4.Goalies-Boston, Billington 3-6-0 (33 shots-30 saves). Tampa Bay, Reese 3-3-0 (25-24).A-16,284 (28,000).

Blues 6, Canucks 3 Vancouver, British Columbia

Geoff Courtnall and Brett Hull each scored two goals as St. Louis won.

St. Louis 1 4 1 - 6

Vancouver 0 2 1 - 3

First period-1, St. Louis, Johnson 3 (Noonan), 18:20.

Second period-2, St. Louis, Hull 15, :26 (sh). 3, St. Louis, G.Courtnall 9 (Creighton, Progner), 4:08. 4, St. Louis, Hull 16 (Hawerchuk, Norton), 5:01. 5, Vancouver, Ridley 10 (Loney, Brown), 5:48. 6, St. Louis, Corson 6 (Hawerchuk), 8:38. 7, Vancouver, Linden 13 (Gelinas), 9:21.

Third period-8, St. Louis, G.Courtnall 10 (Baron), 1:07. 9, Vancouver, R.Courtnall 5 (Gelinas, Linden), 2:59.

Shots on goal-St. Louis 4-13-7-24. Vancouver 5-11-8-24.Power-play opp.-St. Louis 0 of 6; Vancouver 0 of 4.Goalies-St. Louis, Fuhr 12-12-4 (24 shots-21 saves). Vancouver, McLean 7-9-6 (20-15), Hirsch (0:00 period, 7-6).A-18,422 (18,422).