It took a while. Over two-and-a-half weeks and seven-and-a-half games, to be exact. But the Flames fourth line finally arrived on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden.



Grabbing the headlines in their 4-1 win over the New York Rangers on Broadway was David Rittich (who turned aside a career-best 44 shots) and Johnny Gaudreau (two beautiful goals). But their efforts would have been for naught if not for a momentum-turning shift from the line of Mark Jankowski, Garnet Hathaway and Dillon Dube.



At that moment, just past the 11-minute mark of the second period, the Flames were hanging on for their lives. Being outshot 9-1 in the period, their fingernails were still dug into the side of the cliff, but loose rocks were starting to fall all around and that grip on the lead was loosening with every shift.



It seemed only a matter of time before New York would pull even and eventually take the lead.



Then it happened. The shift of the night. For the...