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PHILADELPHIA — The Flyers had six days to stew over owning the NHLs worst record, with just two points and one win through eight games. Stitched Avalanche Jerseys . Coming off their longest layoff of the season, Philadelphia had to shake off a little rust early, but it might have been the Flyers fresh legs that allowed them to finally finish off the slumping New York Rangers in the third period. Braydon Coburn broke a tie early in the final frame, and Steve Mason made the lead stand up as the Flyers beat the Rangers 2-1 on Thursday night. Entering the game, the Flyers had been outscored 12-2 in the third. Still, they allowed 10 shots and needed Mason to be perfect to preserve the victory. „When you have a one-goal lead, thats what you have to be, right?“ Mason said. „Its part of the position. The guys fought really hard. We were only rewarded with two goals, but this was a much better effort.“ Matt Read scored a short-handed goal and added an assist, and Mason made 30 saves for Philadelphia (2-7), which snapped a four-game losing streak. The Flyers are still off to their worst start through nine games. „This is a big win against a big rival of ours,“ Mason said. „Getting the two points here and hopefully being able to build off that is something we need to do and start getting ourselves out of this hole.“ In place of injured regular Henrik Lundqvist, New Yorks Cam Talbot was solid in his NHL debut and made 25 saves. One of his best stops came less than three minutes in on a point-blank shot in the middle from Sean Couturier. „That first save was big, just to kind of feel the puck,“ Talbot said. „Its a big confidence boost making the first save, obviously, and I shouldve made the rest after that.“ Despite the rookies strong effort, the Rangers (2-6) lost for the fifth time in six games. New York has one game left on its season-starting, nine-game road trip before its home opener on Monday. The Rangers, who got a goal from Brad Richards, thought they had gotten even at 2, but a video replay determined that J.T. Miller kicked the puck into the net. „I thought we stopped playing a little in the third, just with the puck, playing a little bit too cautious,“ Flyers coach Craig Berube said. „But we kind of picked it up again, and we were OK.“ On the winning goal, Philadelphias Wayne Simmonds obstructed Talbots view on Coburns slap shot. The defenceman beat Talbot stick-side at 3:33 of the third for his second goal of the season. „We want to try to put as many pucks as we can at the net, and we have guys like Wayne, who is great at screening the goalie and cause havoc in there,“ Coburn said. „As long as you can get the puck through, things can happen.“ Miller put a rebound past Mason just minutes later during a power play, but the goal was disallowed. „I knew right away that he kicked it,“ Mason said. Read gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead 10:53 into the game with Philadelphias first short-handed goal this season. Read raced ahead after New York turned over the puck at the Philadelphia blue line. He kept the puck instead of passing to Couturier and scored with a shot between Talbots pads for his first goal of the season. „I was lucky to get a lucky bounce there and get kind of a half breakaway,“ Read said. „You got to have a shoot-first mentality if you want to score more than two goals a game, and thats something our whole team has to work on.“ The Rangers tied it with 1:04 left in the first when Richards snapped a quick bad-angle shot from the left end of the goal line that deflected off Coburns leg and slipped past Mason. Chris Kreider and John Moore earned assists on Richards fifth goal. New Yorks Benoit Pouliot was given a major penalty for boarding Philadelphias Max Talbot face-first into the boards in front of the Rangers bench and was ejected from the game with three minutes left in the second period. Philadelphia couldnt capitalize on the lengthy power play that stretched into the third period. The Flyers went 0 for 4 overall on the power play, and are 3 for 37 this season. NOTES: Both teams entered with an NHL-low 11 goals. … On Wednesday, Philadelphia loaned C Kris Newbury to AHL Adirondack to make room on the roster for Vincent Lecavalier, who returned from injury. … The Rangers recalled G Jason Missiaen from AHL Hartford to serve as Talbots backup. Lundqvist is day-to-day with an undisclosed injury. … The Flyers travel to face the New York Islanders on Saturday. … The Rangers will play at Detroit on Saturday before hosting Montreal on Monday. Avalanche Jerseys China . Cox started the season with San Francisco, but was released by the team on Nov. 12 before being signed by Seattle, where he appeared in two games and tallied three tackles before being released on Dec. Colorado Avalanche Store . Authorities in Medina, Minn., released the details one day after Cunningham was jailed for another alleged incident with the woman he had been living with for the previous eight months. Cunningham had already been charged with felony domestic assault for allegedly choking the woman last week.NEW YORK — Finally, somebody stopped Kevin Durant: his coach. Not that Durant cared. The only streak he cares about is still intact. Durants 30-point run ended at 12 games when he scored 26 in just 30 minutes, but the Oklahoma City Thunder won their 10th in a row with a 120-95 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night. „Thats the most important streak,“ Durant said. Serge Ibaka made all 12 shots and added 25 points and nine rebounds for the Thunder, who were so good that Durant sat the entire fourth quarter, the only way to slow him down right now. Durant came out for good with 1:15 left in the third. Coach Scott Brooks didnt bother asking the NBAs leading scorer if he wanted to keep playing to extend the streak, saying he knew what the answer would be. „If he cared about the streak, he shouldve never missed the two shots. Thats on him. Cant blame it on me,“ Brooks said. Durant finished 10 of 12 from the field, though his scoring average during his sensational January dropped from 36.6 to 35.9. He had been streaking toward Tracy McGrady, who had the last longer streak when he scored 30 in 14 in a row in 2003. „The streak was good while it lasted, but thats the least of my concerns,“ Durant said. „Its easy for me to try to force it to keep the streak alive, but we needed this win because they beat us last time.“ Reggie Jackson and Thabo Sefolosha scored 14 for the Thunder, on their longest winning streak since a 12-game run early in the 2012-13 season. They dominated the final three quarters in their 112-95 victory at Miami and picked up right where they left off in this one before a sellout crowd of 17,732 that included former President Bill Clinton. They call this a landslide in his field. Oklahoma City shot 63.6 per cent (49 of 77), highest in the league this season, and outrebounded Brooklyn 41-17. The Nets rebound total was the lowest in NBA history. Shaun Livingston scored 16 points while drawing the impossible assignment of defending Durant for the Nets, who dropped their final two games to finish 10-3 in January. „I mean, man, hes shooting thee ball, its tough,“ Livingston said. Colorado Avalanche Shirts. „Its one of those where youve got to tip your hat to him.“ Oklahoma City closed the first quarter with the final 13 points, eight from Ibaka and the rest from Durant, for a 30-16 lead. An 11-0 spurt in the second — with just two points from Durant and Ibaka — extended it to 45-24, and one more surge late in the period put it away. The Nets started the month by holding Durant to 24 points while rallying from 16 down in a 95-93 victory at Oklahoma City, but Brooklyn was never in this game. „I said it before the game. Everybody is talking about Durant scoring 30 points, but its the rest of the guys that are playing at a high level,“ Nets coach Jason Kidd said. „If you look at Ibaka, hes 12 for 12. So again, it goes back to what I said before the game, its just not all Durant. He has guys on his team that have stepped up and been playing at a high level.“ Durant had a jumper and 3-pointer around Jacksons three-point play to extend it to 28, and Durant made a turnaround jumper and another 3-pointer on consecutive possessions late in the half for a 61-30 cushion. Ibaka capped his perfect half with a follow dunk and Oklahoma City led 63-35 at the break. But Durant got only three shots in the second half, making two on alley-oops, before taking a seat for good to get a little extra rest before returning to his hometown Saturday to face Washington. The Nets played without versatile forward Andrei Kirilenko, who wouldve been one of their best hopes of defending Durant, because of strained right calf. Backup centre Andray Blatche left in the second half with a bruised left hip. Deron Williams had 14 points off the bench for the Nets and rookie Mason Plumlee scored 13. Kevin Garnett missed all four shots and was scoreless with one rebound in 12 minutes. NOTES: The Thunder have won six straight road games. … The Nets visit Indiana on Saturday, facing both conference leaders in a 24-hour span. … Marquis Teague, acquired from Chicago on Jan. 21, made his Nets debut in the fourth quarter and scored seven points. ‚ ‚ ‚