Rangers pull even following close call

NEW YORK -- This no-goal got the New York Rangers even with the Buffalo Sabres in more ways than one.

Henrik Lundqvist stopped Daniel Briere's shot just short of fully crossing the goal line with 17 seconds left, and the Rangers hung on for a 2-1 victory over the Sabres on Tuesday night to square the Eastern Conference semifinal series after four games.

Both teams had to wait out a lengthy video review for the second straight game.

"What we're looking for is either confirm what the call is on the ice, or we have to have a conclusive picture of the puck being in the net," Bob Hall, the supervisor of officials for the series said in a released statement. "It's what we're looking for in this case because the on-ice ruling was no goal.

"We looked and looked and looked. No replay that we have seen shows it definitely crossing the goal line."

On Sunday, Rangers defenseman Karel Rachunek lost a goal when league officials in Toronto used a replay to determine he kicked the puck in.

The game went to double overtime, but a major controversy was avoided when the Rangers eventually won.

This time the call went New York's way.

Jaromir Jagr and Brendan Shanahan scored power-play goals, and Lundqvist made 29 saves for the Rangers.

The best-of-7 matchup now shifts back to Buffalo.

• Ducks 3, Canucks 2 -- At Vancouver, British Columbia, Anaheim rallied from a big deficit to take an even bigger lead in its playoff series with Vancouver.

Travis Moen scored 2:07 into overtime to complete the Ducks' comeback from two goals down in the third period and beat the Canucks, giving Anaheim a 3-1 lead in the best-of-7 Western Conference semifinal series.

Scott Niedermayer's point shot hit a crowd in the crease and bounced to Moen, who put the puck past Roberto Luongo low on the stick side.