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Perhaps the Toronto Nike Shox Maple Leafs will eventually fade into the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings, a place they've occupied with regularity since 2005-06. But for now, they are the best team in the League. Phil Kessel's power-play goal 3:08 into overtime -- his second goal of the game -- gave the Leafs a 4-3 victory and ruined the home opener for the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Friday night. The Leafs improved to a League-best 4-0-0 after failing to pick up their fourth win last season until Nov. 21. The Maple Leafs let a two-goal lead slip away in the third period despite the Rangers losing sniper Marian Gaborik and captain Chris Drury to injuries during the second period. Gaborik suffered a separated shoulder on a hit from behind by Leafs forward Colby Armstrong that resulted in a boarding penalty; Drury broke the same finger that cost him four weeks in a collision with teammate Michal Rozsival and will miss another six weeks with a different break. The Rangers received a shot in the arm from an unlikely source. Brian Boyle, who had just 4 goals in 71 games last season, scored twice during the first 6:19 of the third period to erase the two-goal deficit. But the Leafs showed toughness and emerged with two more early-season points. "When the Rangers made it 3-2, you knew the crowd would get into it and they'd feel a little boost of adrenaline," Leafs coach Ron Wilson said. "We didn't lose our composure. We got UGG Classic Tall Bomber Jacket-5804 a couple big saves from (Jean-Sebastien Giguere) when we needed them. We found a way to win." Three goals in a span of 5:46 during the second period from Clarke MacArthur, Mike Komisarek and Kessel turned a 1-0 deficit into a 3-1 Leafs lead. MacArthur's goal was his League-leading fifth of the season. The lead seemed insurmountable, as the Leafs dominated the first two periods and held a 30-12 shot advantage. The Rangers showed resiliency of their own in the third period to earn a consolation point after being overwhelmed by the speedy Leafs for the first two periods. "They played smart," said Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, who said he was screened on Kessel's game-winner. "We had a really tough time settling things down. We bounced back in the third and played really well and never gave up. They played a good game. They are a good team." The Rangers struck first thanks to some nice work by Sean Avery, who held the puck behind the Maple Leafs goal with his back to the play. He passed the puck along the boards to the top of the zone to Rozsival, who stepped into a wrist shot that beat a screened Giguere to put the Rangers ahead 1-0 at 7:58 of the first period. Lundqvist was busy throughout the opening period, stopping all 16 shots he faced. He made three tough saves while shorthanded for the final two minutes of the period, including a beauty where he slid across his crease to rob Leafs defenseman Tomas Kaberle on a one-timer. The onslaught continued in UGG Classic Argyle Knit Boots 5879 the second period, only this time the shots turned into a bevy of goals. MacArthur's goal came 2:04 into the period, just four seconds after a penalty to Drury had expired. Nikolai Kulemin's shot from in tight hit the left post, but MacArthur was right there in the crease to sweep it home and even the score. "Seems to be going in the right direction here," MacArthur said. "We’re all really excited. It’s awesome. We’re just real excited with the win. I think we got offense on a lot of lines and it was great to see Phil get two tonight and when he gets hot, it’s scary. We just want to keep rolling with it." Komisarek scored his first of the season 2:53 later with what looked like a harmless wrister from the top of the circle near the right-wing boards. Lundqvist may have been screened, but the puck somehow found a way through him to put the Leafs up 2-1. Just 1:53 later, Kessel finished a 2-on-1 after a gorgeous feed from Tyler Bozak to put the Leafs ahead 3-1. Bozak looked to be in the clear for a breakaway down the left wing, but he chose to slam on the breaks and slide the puck to a streaking Kessel, who banged home his third of the season. The Leafs outshot the Rangers 14-5 in the second period. Boyle brought the Rangers to within 3-2 early in the third period. His long wrist shot appeared to tip off the stick of Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf and over the catching glove of Giguere. That's when Boyle rose to UGG Bailey Button Boots the occasion once again. Avery, fresh from the penalty box, centered the puck from behind the net. Giguere had lost track of the puck and Boyle took advantage, snapping a shot from between the circles to even the score with 13:41 left in regulation. "Brian's had it right from the get-go," said Rangers center Brandon Dubinsky. "Since training camp he's had a chip on his shoulder. You’ve seen it throughout the preseason and tonight was another example that he is an important part of this team. He's the type of guy who will embrace an increased role and step up." In the end, the Rangers couldn't climb out of the early hole. After all, it's pretty tough to come back from two goals down against the best team in the League.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)—With ugg outlet the innate confidence of a born athlete, Ryan Getzlaf(notes) says he’s sure he can handle the extra pressure that comes with being the Anaheim Ducks’ captain. He demonstrated why in the third period of their home opener, with more than a little help from his linemates. Getzlaf set up Corey Perry’s(notes) tying goal and Bobby Ryan’s(notes) go-ahead score 1:18 apart in the third, and the Ducks finally earned their first victory of the season, 4-3 over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night. Getzlaf had a goal and three assists in his home debut wearing the “C,” and Jonas Hiller(notes) made 36 saves while keeping the Ducks close before an impressive third period by their talented top line. Getzlaf, Perry and Ryan— all medal-winning Olympians with $25 million-plus contracts—went scoreless with a collective minus-12 rating while Anaheim lost its first three games by a combined 13-2. “We know we’ve got to score and be effective,” said Getzlaf, who had the fifth four-point game of his career. “It was time for that. We knew it was just those one or two bounces that we needed our way. When our line is effective, we slow that game down and play with the puck.” Anaheim’s Teemu Selanne(notes) scored his 607th career goal. Christian Ehrhoff(notes) scored UGG Elsey wedge Boots a tiebreaking power-play goal for Vancouver early in the third period. But after Perry tied it by scoring on an open net, Ryan converted a 3-on-1 break against Roberto Luongo(notes), who stopped 28 shots. “When they scored, I thought to myself, ‘Something has got to happen now,”’ said Ryan, who had a handful of ugly giveaways in the first two periods. “‘Something has got to break.’ We were gripping our sticks a little bit. I don’t think there’s any secret there, but we stuck to it.” Daniel Sedin(notes) had a goal and an assist for the Canucks. Sedin and Raffi Torres(notes) scored first-period goals 17 seconds apart as Vancouver largely dominated the first two periods of its road opener in a season with Stanley Cup aspirations, but the Canucks left frustrated after letting the Ducks hang around for a win. “I don’t think we played good enough in the third,” MVP Henrik Sedin(notes) said. “We had a lot of chances to score, but they came back and scored twice on turnovers. We should have been up more than one goal. That’s how we felt. But we played hard, we had all four lines going and we had a lot of chances.” The Ducks’ winless road trip was even uglier in the details: They lost every game by at least three goals while giving up an astonishing 145 shots, most at the beleaguered Hiller. The Ducks have yielded at least 39 shots in every game this season. “I don’t think we’re going to frame that one and say, ‘That’s how we want to play,”’ Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle said. “Your leaders have to be the guys with the letters on their sweaters and the big contracts. They were feeling a lot of pressure from our 0-3 start.” The Ducks came alive shortly after Ryan was sent off for a questionable hooking penalty and Ehrhoff’s long shot ricocheted off the shaft of Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler’s(notes) UGG Roxy Boots stick. Anaheim tied it 3 1/2 minutes later when Getzlaf’s pass found Perry unchecked on the edge of Luongo’s crease. “If we’re going to be the catalyst for this team, we can’t go 0 for 3,” Ryan said. “It’s a huge monkey off our backs.” Ryan then poked the puck away from Henrik Sedin at mid-ice and got it ahead to Getzlaf and Perry. The captain passed back to Ryan for his first goal of the season, although Vancouver wondered whether Anaheim had too many men on the ice at the time. “We should have put them away in the second period,” Vancouver’s Mikael Samuelsson(notes) said. “We had a couple of really good shifts, and we’ve got to score on those. But give credit to them. They kept hanging in there, got a couple of breaks and took advantage of them.” Getzlaf scored a power-play goal early in the first period, but the Ducks’ first lead of the season lasted exactly 76 seconds before Sedin and Torres scored. After back-to-back penalties gave Anaheim another lengthy two-man advantage in the second period, Selanne scored over Luongo’s glove for the 40-year-old Finnish Flash’s first point of the season. NOTES: The teenage Fowler drove Getzlaf and Selanne to the rink in a Maybach while wearing a black chauffeur’s cap. Hazing aside, Fowler had another strong game in his bid to win a full-time job with the Ducks, who have five more games to decide whether to keep him for the season or send him back to his junior team. … D Alexander Edler(notes) had UGG Ultra Tall Boots two assists for Vancouver, and Manny Malhotra(notes) scored his first point for the Canucks.

MADISON, WIS. - These EMU Australia Boots rivalry games are supposed to bring out the ferociousness, the malevolence in everyone, and it showed in Gophers football coach Tim Brewster's face on Saturday. Too bad it didn't show in his defense, too. Brewster chewed out Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema during their postgame handshake, but that was about as feisty as the Gophers got after halftime. The 20th-ranked Badgers claimed Paul Bunyan's Axe for the seventh consecutive season by ruthlessly executing four long second-half touchdown drives in a row, dropping the Gophers to 1-5 (0-2 Big Ten) with a 41-23 pounding in Camp Randall Stadium. "This will sting for the rest of my life," quarterback Adam Weber said, but at least he wasn't talking about James White's and John Clay's cleat marks in his back, the way some of his defensive teammates must have. The Badgers' David-and-Goliath running combo took turns bursting into Minnesota's secondary, with White romping around the edge to pick up 118 yards and two touchdowns and Clay taking shortcuts through the middle to add 111 yards and three scores. With Wisconsin quarterback Scott Tolzien mixing in timely completions, especially on third down, the Badgers simply bullied Minnesota as the game went on, turning the Gophers' workable five-point halftime deficit into their fifth consecutive dispiriting loss with touchdown drives of 64, 86, 80 and 76 yards. "You've just got to stop the run -- that's the basic premise we live by defensively, and we certainly didn't get the job done," Brewster said. "They just ran the ball at will against us, and that's really disappointing." So is the Gophers' 6-20 Big Ten record under Brewster, and 0-10 record against ranked opponents and 0-7 record against archrivals Wisconsin and Iowa. And it didn't help the Gophers' mood UGG Amelie Sandals that Wisconsin tried a two-point conversion with a 25-point fourth-quarter lead, prompting Brewster's postgame outburst to Bielema at midfield.

Apologies to uggs sale John Burkett, but Cliff Lee pitched the biggest victory in Texas Rangers history Wednesday. Lee's dominant performance -- five hits and 10 strikeouts over seven innings -- doubled the franchise's post-season victory total. Burkett had the only other win, a two-run, 10-hit complete game at Yankee Stadium in Game 1 of the 1996 Division Series. Texas lost the next three games in that series and were swept by the Yankees in 1998 and '99. "I know we'll all say it's just one win," says Rangers outfielder Jeff Francoeur. "But for a team that doesn't have a lot of post-season experience, this is huge." Now, there's less pressure on Texas manager Ron Washington to consider pitcher Lee on short rest in Game 4, unless the Rays win the next two. Now, manager Joe Maddon's decision to start struggling James Shields (6.68 ERA over his last 11 starts) for Tampa Bay in Game 2 carries much more risk. The Rays insisted they got some good swings against Lee, but they face another tough lefty Thursday in C.J. Wilson. "Everybody talks about Lee," says Rays left fielder Carl Crawford. "But this guy's no slouch either. He throws harder." Maddon could switch from the batting order that had lefty Carlos Pena hitting fifth and DH Rocco Baldelli sixth against Lee. Those two combined for half of Lee's strikeouts. "I'm still considering some other things," Maddon said after Wednesday's game. "C.J. Wilson is very, very difficult on left-handed hitters. ... Coming into this series, we've had UGG Lo Pro Button boots a difficult time scoring. ... We're not swinging the bats particularly well but I thought we did today." Another boost for the Rangers was getting closer Neftali Feliz, who set a rookie record with 40 saves this season, into his first post-season game with a cushion. Protecting a 5-1 lead, he walked the first two batters of the ninth, but retired the next three after a visit from pitching coach Mike Maddux, who quickly gave way to catcher Bengie Molina. "I went out there with my Spenglish," Maddux said. "Then, Bengie kicked into real Spanish. I just left." "I sensed he was trying to do too much," Molina said of Feliz. "I told him he's a thrower, not a pitcher. I wanted him to get his mind off the two runners, the fans yelling, and to think about what we're doing here." What the Rangers could be doing was described by Washington: "Whatever happens from this point on UGG Sundance II Boots will be in Texas Rangers folklore."

Kuyt played the Nike Air Max full 90 minutes as Blackpool stunned the most successful club in English football history, emerging from Anfield with a 2-1 victory courtesy of goals from Charlie Adam and Luke Varney. And the Dutchman has admitted that it was one of the worst days he has experienced since moving to Merseyside from Feyenoord in 2006, though he promised that Liverpool's players would do their best to reverse the club's appalling recent fortunes. "It was really, really disappointing - probably one of the hardest defeats I've had to take since I've been here and we're sorry for the fans," Kuyt said. "The first thing we have got to do is make sure we start winning games again and then we can begin to take things from there. "It is still early days for the manager and we have to keep working but one thing I do know is that we will come back stronger for this experience." The upcoming international break means the Reds will have to wait until at least October 17, and a mouth-watering Merseyside derby at Everton, before they have the opportunity to UGG Bailey Button Boots climb up from 18th place, and Kuyt says the wait to play again is an exasperating one. "It's frustrating that we have got the international break now because we will have this result hanging over us and everyone in the dressing room wants to put it behind us as quickly as possible," he added. "We know this result has not helped but we just have to try and focus on the spirit we showed in the second half. We have got to make sure we show it in the next game."

The opening four ball matches resumed Saturday morning at the Ryder Cup. After a seven-plus-hour weather delay on Friday, action was stopped for darkness. The four matches resumed at 3:00 a.m. (et) Saturday morning under cold, but dry conditions at Celtic Manor. The U.S. is ahead in two matches, Europe leads one and the match that features Tiger Woods is all-square. Woods and Steve Stricker, a formidable tandem at last year's Presidents Cup, lost the last hole before play was called Friday and are tied with Ian Poulter and Ross Fisher. Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer lead Americans Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, 1-up. The U.S. pair of Stewart Cink and Matt Kuchar are in front, 2-up, against the Northern Ireland duo of Rory McIlroy and U.S. Open winner Graeme McDowell. American rookies Bubba Watson and Jeff Overton are 1-up against Padraig Harrington and Luke Donald. With the huge loss of time on Friday, officials and captains agreed to change the format in an effort to finish the competition by Sunday evening. After these four ball matches are completed, there will be six foursomes matches instead of the usual four. Upon the completion of those foursomes, there will be two foursomes matches and four four-ball matches in the third session. That is expected to end Sunday morning, followed by the 12 singles matches. Essentially, in an effort to complete on time, all 12 players on each team will compete in each session following the opening four balls. There will still be the usual 28 points at stake and the winner is the first team to reach 14 1/2 points. This plan should work time-wise if no more bad weather rolls in and that doesn't seem likely. Rain is forecast for Sunday, so a Monday finish looms as a possibility. The U.S. won the Ryder Cup in 2008 and in the event of a 14-14 tie, it would retain the Cup.

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