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WASHINGTON -- The Washington Capitals were right on pace for another playoff collapse. Theyd already blown a two-game lead. They gave up a goal in the first minute of pivotal Game 5. They couldnt stay out of the penalty box. But they shut out the New York Rangers the rest of the night. They got a goal from Joel Ward to tie the game. They kept peppering Henrik Lundqvist, who denied league MVP candidate Alex Ovechkin nine times. Then, at 9:24 of overtime, Mike Ribeiro scored his first playoff goal in five years. The Capitals had a 2-1 win over the Rangers. Series lead restored. Momentum regained. Doubts erased -- for at least another couple of days. "Obviously just kind of got the nerves out there at the start," said Ward, who scored in the second period, "and fed off the crowd for the game. You know, we executed a couple times, got some chances and so did they, but we were fortunate to bury the last one." The Capitals now take their 3-2 series lead to New York for Sundays Game 6. The home team has won every game so far, with Washington taking the first two and New York pulling even in Games 3 and 4. Washington has also been fighting history along the way: The franchise has lost eight playoff series in which it has held a two-game lead, leading to collective jitters any time the other team mounts a comeback. Now its the Rangers who face a must-win in a series in which four of five games have been decided by one goal. "Its just a bounce here and there," said Lundqvist, who finished with 33 saves. "Its been that way the whole series. We have to continue to be positive and believe that we can do it." Ribeiro hadnt scored in the post-season since 2008, when he was playing with the Dallas Stars. He had never scored a winning goal in the playoffs until he opportunistically found the puck on his stick near the crease after a pinball deflection of a shot from Karl Alzner at the point. "I know I was behind that D, and the puck just came onto my stick," Ribeiro said. "It was pretty cool." Brian Boyle scored the Rangers lone goal 53 seconds into the game, but he also took a needless penalty that set up Wards power play goal in the second period. Braden Holtby (24 saves) and Lundqvist matched each other for the rest of regulation -- and a little beyond. Still, the Capitals were tight early on. Coach Adam Oates said before the game he was "worried" about the way his team would start out. His concern was justified. Dan Girardi dumped the puck behind the net. Derick Brassard was there and made a one-touch pass to Boyle, who had skated in front of the crease with barely a hindrance from Capitals defencemen. Boyle popped in his second goal of the series, and Brassard had his series-leading fifth assist. The Capitals stayed out of sorts well into the first period. Jason Chimera (boarding) and John Erskine (elbowing) took penalties. New York nearly took a two-goal lead when Erskine turned the puck over at centre ice, but he recovered in time to stop Carl Hagelins breakaway. The Rangers finally gave away the momentum when Boyle slashed Ribeiro for no good reason in front of a referee near the Rangers net. It took only 11 seconds for the Capitals power play, the NHLs best during the regular season, to tie the score on Wards one-timer from the slot. "Its a dumb penalty, and you dont kill those off," Rangers coach John Tortorella said. "It just happens that way in our game. Thats a guy thats playing really well for us, but thats a dumb penalty." The Capitals survived two more Rangers power plays late in the second period, then came up empty with a chance of their own early in the third -- all because of Lundqvist. The goalie stopped Ovechkin three times from point-blank range during the man advantage, the last two without a stick. Lundqvist stopped Ovechkin three more times in overtime, but there was no stopping Ribeiro when the games final loose puck fell the Capitals way. "It was just a quick play. Not really much you can do about it," Lundqvist said. "I just wish we got a better bounce. Frustrating and disappointing, but its not over. We have to regroup." Notes: New York LW Ryane Clowe, who drew the boarding call on Chimera, played only one more shift after the penalty. He was playing in his second game since missing four with a suspected concussion. ... Rangers D Marc Staal remained sidelined with an eye injury. He has played in only one game in the series. ... With RW Martin Erat out with an upper-body injury, 19-year-old F Tom Wilson, a 2012 first-round draft pick, made his Capitals debut.Cito Gaston Jersey Braves . Ouellette, from Montreal, already has three Olympic gold medals since joining the team in 1999. Joe Torre Jersey Braves . 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MacKinnons goal, also on the power play, came with just over a minute remaining.Kell Brook expects Manny Pacquiao to win back the WBO world welterweight title on Saturday and hopes they can meet in a 2017 unification fight.Pacquiao (58-6-2, 38 KOs) challenges Jessie Vargas for the belt he lost when he was unanimously out-pointed by Floyd Mayweather Jr in boxings richest ever fight in May 2015.Filipino Pacquiao, 37, now combines a political career with boxing and will put himself in the frame for a bigger bout if he defeats Vargas (27-1, 10 KOs) at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.Brook (36-1, 25 KOs), the IBF world welterweight champion, is recovering from a broken eye socket sustained in a fifth-round defeat to middleweight No. 1 Gennady Golovkin last September. But he has been looking ahead to next year.Of course I would be interested in the winner [of Pacquiao-Vargas], Brook told ESPN.All the fans were saying I didnt fancy fighting the best fighters, but I have gone in there with the best in the world in Golovkin, and Im ready to do it again.Im after the biggest and best fights out there, those are the ones that are going to get me up for it.Once you have become world champion, you need special fights to really keep you motivated in training. A world title unification fight would do that.I see Vargas getting some success, but I just think with Pacquiaos experience, having been in with the better opponents, hes going to have too much.But I dont see Pacquiao stopping him -- hell win on points. Hes had a lot of time out: is his passionn still there? It could catch up with you at that age, so hes got to be careful, and that makes the fight interesting.ddddddddddddVargas is a good fighter -- hes a world champion -- but hes not the best out there. Theres not massive margins at this level, but I dont think hes in the super league with the likes of Keith Thurman, Danny Garcia and myself.Unless he shows us something Ive not see before, I dont see him winning.Brook, 30, was being lined up to face Vargas when talks stalled and he was instead offered the chance to step up two weight divisions and challenge Golovkin.He has until Feb. 24 to make up his mind about whether to defend his IBF welterweight title or step up a division.The Sheffield boxers mandatory challenger is American Errol Spence, but he has yet to decide which weight class his future lies in.My weight has settled down so I could still make welterweight. Ive got Spence on the horizon and theres the likes of [WBC champion] Garcia and Amir Khan as well, but I dont know yet, Brook said.The eye socket is healing well, but I still have some stitches in my mouth where they went into my cheek during the operation.Im looking forward to getting back in the gym and seeing what direction Im heading in next. I need to make sure my eye is 100 percent before I start doing that. Im looking at getting back in spring next year. ' ' '