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ANAHEIM — With all due respect to Pirates of the Caribbean, Space Mountain or Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, the ride the Calgary Flames have taken a city, the bottom half of a province, on for the last seven months?

Every bit their equal.

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For sheer wonder or heart-palpitating thrills.

And best of all: No height restrictions.

They gave everyone in the city a FastPass, young fans and old, new and established, the chance to get on board and enjoy the ride.

And what a ride it turned out to be.

Corey Perry, on his knees, finally brought the Calgary Flames to theirs, muckraking a puck beyond a courageous Karri Ramo 2:26 into overtime to drive the dagger deep into hockey’s darling underdogs, 3-2.

Ramo clearly felt he was interfered with on the play.

“It’s pointless what I think,” he said afterwards. “They scored a goal. They’re a gritty team. They deserved that.

“Doesn’t matter what I think. A goal is a goal. We’re done now. We gave everything. A pretty empty feeling. It’s a tough team we played again. We can be proud. First game we got run over. But we regrouped.