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The way their plane ride went, you wouldn’t have blamed the Vancouver Whitecaps for flying all the way to New York just to “park the bus.”

Travel woes conspired to cut the legs out from under the Caps, but the road-weary Major League Soccer side found a second wind in Wednesday’s second half and left Harrison, N.J., with a well-earned point after a 2-2 draw with the New York Red Bulls.

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It wasn’t until 2:30 a.m. ET Wednesday that the Caps arrived at their hotel on the East Coast, thanks to a cancelled commercial flight that forced them to charter a last-minute plane from Kansas City.

Facing last year’s Supporters’ Shield champions — and the only team in MLS with more than 100 home wins since 2010 — without Yordy Reyna and Doneil Henry, the Whitecaps had the better of scoring chances in the game and have now picked up points in five of their last six games.

“If you had spent the day with us yesterday, you’d never believe that we would have got out of here with points,” said coach Marc Dos Santos. “It was a day of almost 24 hours, from 7 a.m. to going to bed almost at four.”