PHILADELPHIA -- The Flyers had six days to stew over owning the NHLs worst record, with just two points and one win through eight games. 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. . Lotz made 65 saves but he was beat by Cole Ullys penalty shot in overtime that lifted the Kamloops Blazers to a 4-3 victory in Western Hockey League play Wednesday. [url=http://www.officialmlbonline.net/New-York-Mets-Cyber-Monday-Tug-Mcgraw-Jers... McGraw Mets Jersey . On Friday, the Argos and Rogers Centre announced theyve signed a lease agreement through Dec. . 3 overall in Aprils draft, will see a specialist on Thursday. The statement says: "Trent Richardson is travelling to Pensacola, Fla., where he will have his left knee further evaluated by Dr. James Andrews tomorrow. [url=http://www.officialmlbonline.net/Los-Angeles-Dodgers-Cyber-Monday-Fernando-... Valenzuela Dodgers Jersey . And this time, the left-hander got a victory for his complete effort. For the second time in his last four starts, Cecil went the distance against one of the American Leagues top teams, limiting the AL West-leading Texas Rangers to four singles in a 3-0 victory Sunday night for his first career shutout. PARIS -- Novak Djokovic denied his participation in the Paris Masters was linked to a US$1.6-million bonus. The ATP bonus pool is split among the worlds top dozen players at the end of the year, and No. 1-ranked Djokovic would have lost his entire share if he had not played in Paris, thus missing the last two Masters events. "It was really somehow funny for me to see how people are coming up with that story," Djokovic said on Wednesday. "I even heard that I would get on the court and play a game just to get this money. I mean, this is ridiculous. "I want to play well here. I want to get as far as possible, and then London (for next weeks tour finals), which is the most important tournament in this part of the year for all of us." Nevertheless, he protected his bonus by stepping on court on Wednesday then winning his opening match against Ivan Dodig of Croatia 6-4, 6-3 in the second round. Doubts about his participation emerged when Djokovic was treated twice for shoulder pain last Saturday while losing in the Basel semifinals, only his fourth defeat this year. "I really wanted to come because I played at Basel a couple of matches, butt I need more matches before London," Djokovic said.dddddddddddd "Im definitely intending to finish the season strong. Maybe Im physically paying for the long season that I had, and the unfortunate injury after the U.S. Open, the Davis Cup, and everything. So I think everything is kind of catching up with me now." Djokovic stood to earn $2 million from the ATP bonus pool if hed played in all eight Masters tournaments, but he lost $400,000 when he didnt appear in Shanghai last month because of injury. He would have lost all of it if he hadnt played in Paris. Djokovic has won five of the Masters events this year, plus three of the four majors: Australian Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open. But injuries have marred the end of his season. Before Basel, trouble in the same shoulder prompted his retirement in the Cincinnati Masters final in August against Andy Murray. In the Davis Cup semifinals, Djokovic also suffered a back injury that sidelined him for six weeks. "If I know that Im physically good enough, in good condition to be competing, I will compete," he said. "If I dont, I will not compete. Its as simple as that." cheap jerseys cheap nfl jerseys ' ' '