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(SportsNetwork. Cheap Hockey Jerseys Authentic .com) - The New York Rangers hope to punch their ticket to the second round when they visit the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday for a Game 6 battle at Wells Fargo Center. Watch the game live on TSN and TSN GO at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt. In order to close out this best-of-seven set, however, the Rangers will have to become the first team to win consecutive games in this series. Through five meetings so far, New York has won the odd-numbered contests with the Flyers posting victories in Games 2 and 4. The Flyers hope to extend the series by earning a win in their final home test of this Eastern Conference quarterfinal matchup. If Philadelphia can pick up a win tonight, the clubs will have a short turnaround for Game 7, which is scheduled for Wednesday night in New York. After losing Sunday afternoon in Manhattan, Philadelphia has lost 10 of its last 11 visits to Madison Square Garden. The Rangers jumped out to a 3-0 lead over the Flyers in Sundays Game 5 at Madison Square Garden and then held on for a 4-2 decision. Marc Staal opened the scoring with 8:07 left in the first stanza, while Brad Richards and Dominic Moore each netted second-period goals to hand New York a 3-0 cushion. Moore added an assist on Brian Boyles empty-net score in the final seconds that sealed the victory and put the Flyers on the brink of elimination. "Its frustrating," Flyers forward Scott Hartnell said of the loss. "Youre always playing catch-up. You make it a lot harder on yourself. Youre skating that much harder to get on pucks, to create turnovers, to get chances, instead of playing comfortable. Its a lot easier when youve got a lead." Henrik Lundqvist came up with 24 saves for New York, which bounced back from a 2-1 Game 4 loss in which Flyers netminder Steve Mason turned in a stellar 37- save effort. "I thought we played a really good game, good energy," said Lundqvist. "Looking back at the game in Philly (on Friday), we did a lot of good things as well. The difference is today we scored a couple goals and that brings a lot of confidence to the group. Its easy to play patient and not overdo a lot of things." Mason managed just 18 stops on Sunday and Philadelphia wasnt able to maintain its momentum from Fridays win despite captain Claude Giroux and veteran Vincent Lecavalier recording their first goals of the these playoffs. "This series is definitely not over," Mason said. "Were looking forward to going home and having a big game there and bringing it back here for Game 7." The Flyers are 7-10 all-time in series when trailing 3-2. New York is 13-2 in playoff series in which it held a lead of three games to two. The Rangers have lost 11 straight playoff games when holding a series lead. Philadelphia defenseman Hal Gill saw his first action of the 2014 postseason Sunday, filling in for the injured Nicklas Grossman, who hurt his right knee in Game 4. Gill was a minus-2 in just over 12 minutes of ice time in Game 5. Grossmann is expected to miss Game 6, but Erik Gustafsson will fill in for the injured blueliner on Tuesday instead of Gill. The 25-year-old Gustafsson had two goals and eight assists in 31 games this season and has one goal and one assist over seven career playoff tilts. J.T. Miller, New Yorks first-round pick in the 2011 draft, made his playoff debut on Sunday. The 21-year-old forward contributed a point to the winning effort. Including this playoff series, which is the first postseason meeting between New York and Philadelphia since 1997, the Rangers have lost four of their last five games at Wells Fargo Center. Hockey Jerseys China . Cory Batey and Brandon Vandenburg were each convicted on four charges of aggravated rape, one of attempted aggravated rape and two for aggravated sexual battery. Vandenburg was also found guilty of tampering with evidence as well as an unlawful photography charge. Cyber Monday Hockey Jerseys . Hughes, 30, is a former Major Leaguer with the Baltimore Orioles, having played in 14 games with the Os in 2010. He played with Class AA Binghamton of the Eastern League in the New York Mets system last season.Kansas City fans have waited 29 years for this. And the Royals arent disappointing them. The Royals try again to move one step closer to their first World Series appearance since 1985 on Tuesday when the American League Championship Series shifts to Kauffman Stadium for Game 3 against the Baltimore Orioles. This game was supposed to be played on Monday, but rain in the area caused a postponement. Kansas City won the first two games in Baltimore, including its major league record fourth playoff game in extra innings in Game 1 on Friday, to take a commanding lead in this series. Since the best-of-seven format began back in 1985, there have been 11 teams to win the first two games of an ALCS on the road. All of them have gone on to the World Series. History may not be on Baltimores side, but its not intimidated. Youve got to win four games, Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said. Youve got to keep from losing three. And thats obviously oversimplifying it. But you look at teams that compete during the course of the season, they compete on the road, too. Kansas City, a team that hit the fewest amount of home runs (95) during the season, has found its power stroke in October. After smacking four in their first four games of the playoffs, the Royals have hit four more home runs against the Orioles. Weve won ballgames a ton of different ways. We can pitch and play some defense, or we can go out and score some runs, said Mike Moustakas, who homered in Saturdays, 6-4, Game 2 win and has four home runs this postseason. If we need it, we can drag, we can hit and run, we can do all those things and push a couple runs across. Thats just a tribute to everyone in this clubhouse and how hard weve worked. Moustakas tied Willie Mays Aikens 1980 franchise record for homers in a single postseason. Moustakas is also the first No. 9 hitter to homer in four different games in a single postseason and has tied Adam Kennedy and Jason Varitek for the most homers by a No. 9 hitter in postseason history. Counting 1985, the Royals have won nine straight postseason games, including six this year. They also havent trailed in any of the first 19 innings in this series. I know you get tired of hearing it, but I just stay focused on today, manager Ned Yost said on Saturday. And again, when you start this series playing against a ballclub of this caliber,, I think when you go into a series like this, if you could go home 1-1, youre going to be really, really happy. Fake Hockey Jerseys. If you can go home 2-0, thats as good as it gets. Going home 2-0 with our crowd for the next three days is going to be exciting. It should be a wild environment inside Kauffman Stadium, as Jeremy Guthrie takes the hill in his first postseason appearance. Its also the first time hes pitched since Sept. 26. Ive never had this much time between starts aside from being on the DL, Guthrie said, so I dont view it one way or another. I was able to throw a simulated game, which at least gave me the opportunity to go out there and face hitters. Guthrie, who pitched for Baltimore from 2007-11, won his final three starts of the year and finished the season 13-11 with a 4.13 ERA. He also posted his best strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.53) since his first year in Baltimore, while adding his best WHIP (1.30) since 2010 and topped 200 innings for the fifth time in six years (202 2/3). To be in the playoffs with Kansas City is very exciting, Guthrie said. And then to come back and play against a team that I played with before makes it even that much more interesting and ironic, I think. Guthrie is 2-1 in four starts versus his former team with a 2.67 ERA. Baltimore, meanwhile, will counter with lefty Wei-Yin Chen, who won 16 games during the regular season, but was roughed up by the Detroit Tigers in his lone ALDS start. Chen couldnt get out of the fourth inning in that one, as he was hammered for five runs and seven hits in 3 2/3 innings. The Orioles, of course, rallied and he did not get a decision. Well, we need a big start out of him, thats obvious, said Orioles outfielder Adam Jones. We have to do what we have to do as an offense. We know what were going to get out of Chen. Hes going to be aggressive. We have to play good defense and score some runs. Chen is 1-1 with a 4.17 ERA in six starts against the Royals, but has pitched to a 2.84 ERA in two starts at Kauffman. For me, I want to keep it simple, said Chen. It doesnt matter to me if were ahead or behind. For me, my job is to go out and pitch a good game. It doesnt change whether its 0-2 or 2-0, I just want to go out and pitch a good game. The Royals won four of seven from the Orioles during the regular season, outscoring Baltimore 26-18. ' ' '
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