PHOENIX, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Daniel Briere felt guilty about a
third-period error which led to a tying goal, so he atoned for
it in overtime Tuesday night.
Briere scored his second goal of the game 58 seconds into
overtime, lifting the Phoenix Coyotes to a 4-3 victory over the
Calgary Flames.
Briere stole a puck from defenseman Toni Lydman in the left
corner and skated across the front of the crease to pull
goaltender Roman Turek out of position. Briere avoided Turek's
poke check and flipped the puck over the goaltender.
With less than a minute remaining in overtime, though, Briere
lost a key faceoff which allowed the Flames to set up for the
tying goal. Craig Conroy won a faceoff back to Clarke Wilm, who
fired a slap shot on net. The puck rebounded to Jarome Iginla
at the left side of the net, where he tapped it in with 15
seconds to go in regulation.
Briere tallied his first of the night with just under 4 1/2
minutes left in the first period when he rifled a slap shot from
the right faceoff circle inside the right post.
Goalie Sean Burke finished with 18 saves for his second win in
three starts. Daymond Langkow and defenseman Danny Markov had
the other tallies for Phoenix, which concluded a 2-2 homestand.
Langkow knotted it at 2-2 with 2:24 left in the second period
with his 16th and Markov tallied his fifth with just under three
minutes left in the third on a slap shot from the right point.
Phoenix is now 4
1 when Markov scores a goal.
Scott Nichol and Conroy also scored for Calgary, which is 1-3 in
its last four games.
Nichol tied the game 31 seconds after Briere had given Phoenix a
1-0 lead. Jeff Shantz's shot from the right circle hit the left
post and slid into the crease, where it bounced off Nichol's
skate and went into the net.
The Flames took their only lead of the game 7:50 into the second
period when Conroy took a pass from Iginla while alone in the
slot and wristed it over Burke's right shoulder.
