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SAN ANTONIO -- Zach Randolphs miserable Western Conference finals debut led to a sleepless night and a long film session. The All-Star power forward and his Memphis Grizzlies are hardly down and out, though. In both rounds of the playoffs so far, Memphis has lost Game 1 before rallying back to knock out the Los Angeles Clippers and then the Oklahoma City Thunder. This time, Randolph had his worst game ever in the playoffs, managing two points in a 105-83 blowout. His only lower-scoring game in 40 playoff appearances was when he played 1 minute as a rookie for Portland in a 2002 game. "Its more frustrating than embarrassing," said Randolph, who missed his first seven shots in Game 1. "Its basketball. It happens to the best of them. "Muhammad Ali, he got knocked down before. What made him the greatest fighter in the world is he always bounced back." It took the Grizzlies two games to get off the mat in the first round, when they suffered a 21-point blowout at Los Angeles and then lost on a Chris Paul buzzer-beater in Game 2. Memphis then won the next four. There werent as many adjustments needed in Round 2, when Kevin Durants spectacular finish lifted Oklahoma City to a two-point win in the opener. Again, the Grizzlies won four straight to advance. So, the panic button is nowhere in sight for these comeback kids with Game 2 on Tuesday night in San Antonio. "Thats what you do in life. Every time you have a bad moment, youve got to bounce back and get up and go again," coach Lionel Hollins said. "You have a bad day, youve got to get up the next morning and make it a good day. Every team has lost games that have been really bad, theyve lost one-point buzzer-beaters, all of those types of things. "If youre going to be in life and live, youve got to get up and go do it again and try to be better." After last years West finals, the Spurs are wary of feeling good about any series lead. San Antonio won the first two games at home last year, and then lost four in a row to the Thunder. "Everything can change real fast," point guard Tony Parker said. The Spurs had a surprisingly easy time against the NBAs best defence in Game 1, shooting 53 per cent and making a franchise post-season-record 14 3-pointers on just 29 attempts. It took Memphis too long to settle in during its first conference finals appearance, and San Antonio was up 17 by the end of the first quarter and 20 in the second quarter. "We found out it wasnt as bad as it looked," Hollins said. "It was a lot of just out of position, playing with hyper speed and doing things that we dont normally do because of the moment and not just playing the game the way its supposed to be played." The mistakes were many. Point guard Mike Conley said Memphis needs to pick up its defence on Parker beyond the 3-point line and keep him from penetrating the lane so easily to set up the 3-point shooters around him. Once in scramble mode, the Grizzlies over-helped and left too many openings. On offence, the ball got stuck, which allowed the Spurs defence to recover and wipe out any scoring opportunities for Randolph around the basket. "All the things that we did wrong -- no pace, no moving the ball, no running back, no communicating -- if we do all that good and we are who we are and we lose, now were going to see," centre Marc Gasol said. "Its hard to get a lot of information about that last game because we just played so poorly." Game 2 provides a clean slate to try again, and Memphis hasnt had two straight poor games yet this post-season. "We adjust, I think, pretty well to teams and this is no different. We have to come out, make the same adjustments, stick to those adjustments and trust them because this team is so disciplined that theyre not going to stop what theyre doing," Conley said. "They do what they do very well. Theyre the best in the league at it." The Spurs were hesitant to take too much credit for what went right. "The ball happened to go into the basket," coach Gregg Popovich said. "Its a game. Some nights you make two, some nights you make 14. Thats a rarity. But theres never really a reason. ... We didnt run anything magical to get the shots. They just went in." It was quite the turnaround from the last round, when San Antonio made 44 per cent and struggled to make shots consistently. "Im a math guy," said Matt Bonner, who made four of his five 3-point attempts. "Its highly improbable were going to shoot at the clip we did last game. Theyve got the best defence in the league. Theyre going to come out and make adjustments and play better on defence for sure." 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The NHLPA gave the go-ahead for the rule change that makes icing a race to an imaginary line across the faceoff dots instead of the puck, which was given a trial run during the pre-season. The goal is to prevent serious injuries, like the one that sidelined Carolina Hurricanes defenceman Joni Pitkanen for the entire season. Pitkanen broke his left heel bone in eight places on an icing touch-up in April. Its a similar injury to the one suffered by former Washington Capitals forward Pat Peake, whose career ended not too long after. "After testing hybrid icing during the pre-season games, the players participated in a survey and a majority of teams supported this rule change in an effort to make the game safer," NHLPA special assistant to the executive director Mathieu Schneider said in a statement. 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New York had squandered a two-goal lead and the momentum in the second. But a fortuitous power play after the buzzer set up the Rangers to grab it all back. And they did. Dan Girardi made the most of Jason Chimeras interference penalty, scoring the go-ahead goal 59 seconds into the third. That led to New Yorks 4-3 victory on Wednesday night that tied the best-of-seven series 2-2. "Weve done better as the series has gone on," Rangers coach John Tortorella said. "The game was a series of momentum swings for both teams. The thing I like about our team the past couple of games is that we certainly have bent at times but didnt break." Derek Stepan also scored in the third for the Rangers, who built their second two-goal lead before holding on for their second straight 4-3 win. Girardi ripped a shot from above the left circle off a feed from Derick Brassard to give the Rangers the lead again. "We had some lapses," Capitals forward Joel Ward said. "They scored a power-play goal, and that was tough for us. Plus it is never easy to be down two goals as we were." Tortorella said the teams struggling power play was discussed during intermission, and the talk paid off. "It was a really good power play," Girardi said. "Brass made a heck of a play to get it to the middle of the ice. I knew I was going to shoot far side. It just happened to go in." Stepan made it 4-2 at 6:02, scoring into a wide-open net at the end of a give-and-go play in front with Carl Hagelin, who had a goal and two assists. Game 5 will be back in Washington on Friday before the series returns to Madison Square Garden on Sunday. The home team has won all four games in the first-round Eastern Conference matchup. "Were a confident group in here," Hagelin said. "We do know we cant play in Washington like the last game there. Weve got to come in and play better." Brad Richards and Hagelin staked the Rangers to a 2-0 lead, but goals by Mathieu Perreault and Troy Brouwer tied it for Washington. The Capitals closed within 4-3 when defenceman Karl Alzners shot caromed in off of Perreault for his second of the game at 7:31 of the third. Henrik Lundqvist, announced as a Vezina Trophy finalist earlier Wednesday, made 27 saves. Braden Holtby stopped 30 shots for Washington. New York has won only one series in which it trailed 0-2. "So far were just taking care of business at home," Lundqvist said. "Coming back home being down two games, we had a lot of pressure, but we stepped up. So far we just tied the series. We still need to do whatever we can to get the next one." The Rangers scored four goals in each of their two home playoff wins after scoring a total of one in two road losses. "We knew it was going to be a tough series," Holtby said. "They played really well these last two games and there is some stuff we need to work on. 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Ward charged in, with Perreault, and made a hard move on defenceman Michael Del Zotto. Ward got Del Zotto down to the ice near the left post and feathered a pass through the crease to Perreault, who tied up Richards and slid in his first career playoff goal. The Rangers appeared set to get out of the second with the one-goal lead they brought into it, but Brouwers first of the playoffs tied it with 17.1 seconds left in the period. Hagelins second goal of the series doubled the Rangers lead midway through the second. Brassard, who had a goal and two assists in the Rangers win in Game 3, made a hard pass from the right point to the left circle that Hagelin fired into the top right corner of the net. The Rangers had taken a 1-0 lead in the first off a gaffe by Holtby. The goalie drifted to his left to track down a dump-in several feet in front and wide of the net. His clearing attempt was knocked down by New York forward Taylor Pyatt, who moved the puck to Hagelin. 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The grinning and digging took place in the parking lot next to the Metrodome, where the Vikings have played since 1982. Their last game there is Dec. 29, and a three-month demolition of the Teflon-topped stadium will start in mid-January. After two years outdoors at the University of Minnesota, the Vikings are scheduled to inaugurate the ship-shaped, glass-encased venue in time for the 2016 season. During a set of speeches in a nearby tent, Dayton joked that he felt just like Vikings coach Leslie Frazier after the teams 23-20 overtime victory Sunday over Chicago. "I cant believe its over, and I cant believe we won," Dayton said. State lawmakers enacted a bill last year to fund the stadium with the threat, real or perceived, of the 52-year-old franchise moving to Los Angeles hovering over the often-tense process. 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