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NEW YORK -- Antti Raanta took advantage of a rare third straight start with his second consecutive shutout and helped the New York Rangers to their longest winning streak in nearly a month.J.T. Miller and Brady Skjei scored 3:50 apart late in the second period, Raanta stopped 19 shots and the Rangers beat the New Jersey Devils 5-0 on Sunday night.Our guys did a great job, let me see the puck, Raanta said. I have to make the first save and (on) the rebound our guys are always there. Thats how you can get a shutout in these kinds of games.Raanta, starting for the third time in four nights and coming off a 1-0 overtime win against Chicago on Friday, has stopped 62 of 63 shots over the three wins. He got his sixth career shutout and improved to 8-1-0 with a 1.65 goals-against average in 10 starts this season.He does what a goaltenders supposed to do and give you a chance to win, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said. He made a timely save at the beginning of the second period that I thought was a difference-maker in this game. We came back shortly after that, scored short-handed and got that goal at the end of the period there.Chris Kreider had a goal and an assist, and Brandon Pirri and Jimmy Vesey also scored to give New York its first three-game winning streak since Nov. 12-15.Raanta got the nod with Henrik Lundqvist sitting out while healthy in a third straight game for the first time since Dec. 22-27, 2013, when Cam Talbot started.Its not a surprise, but great to have the game, Raanta said. Just trying to go one game at a time and not think about how many games there is in a row. ... I just try to do my thing and whenever the coaches say to go in, I go in and try to do my best.Cory Schneider finished with 25 saves for New Jersey, which lost its third straight. The Devils had an early goal disallowed after a review and another didnt count because it came after a whistle.I think in the second period we had a couple mistakes on some certain plays that wound up in the back of our net, Devils coach John Hynes said. The way you fix it is like you do with everything -- you go back, analyze the game, and we got a couple days to regroup and well work at it.Miller extended the Rangers lead to 2-0 with a short-handed goal with 3:53 left in the second. Kevin Hayes brought it toward the net and passed it to Miller, who tipped it in from the right side for his ninth.Skjei got his first NHL goal with 2.5 seconds left in the middle period. Off a faceoff to Schneiders right, Derek Stepan tipped it to Skjei, who fired a slap shot that appeared to deflect off a defenseman and past the goalie.It was awesome, Skjei said. Ive been waiting a while and you know I got a lucky bounce but Ill take it for sure.Pirri made it 4-0 with a power-play goal at 6:04 of the third when he wristed it in from close. It was Pirris sixth of the season and first in 13 games.Vesey capped the scoring with 1:15 remaining when he knocked in a rebound from the left side on a power play for his 10th.Adam Henrique appeared to give the Devils an early lead when he knocked in a rebound 1:09 into the game. However, the goal was disallowed after a review showed Henrique kicked the puck in. It was the second straight game the Rangers had an opponents goal wiped out.Kreider got New York on the scoreboard with 3:17 left in the opening period as he fired the puck through Schneiders five-hole for his eighth.The Devils nearly tied it with about 1:20 remaining in the period when Devante Smith-Pelly jabbed at a shot stopped by Raanta and knocked the puck across the line. The officials waved it off because the whistle had blown.Game notes Devils C Pavel Zacha missed his fourth straight game due to a facial laceration. ... New Jersey came in 7 for 27 on the power play over its previous nine games, but went 0 for 5 against the Rangers. ... The teams play again at Madison Square Garden next Sunday night. The remaining two games in the season series will be at Prudential Center, on Feb. 25 and March 21. ... Vigneault tied Tom Renney for fifth place on the franchise list with 164 wins. ... C Josh Jooris was claimed off waivers by Arizona earlier Sunday. Jooris had one goal and one assist in 12 games with the Rangers this season.UP NEXTDevils: At St. Louis on Thursday night in the second game of a stretch of four straight away from Prudential Center.Rangers: Host Chicago on Tuesday night.---Follow Vin Cherwoo at www.twitter.com/VinCherwooAP Trayvon Mullen Womens Jersey . He was followed closely by David Clarkson, donning red, seconds later. 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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In the span of a few hours Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs went from controlling the AFC West and taking care of a playoff spot to watching the Oakland Raiders take everything instead.The Chiefs, who have already beaten the Raiders twice, were leading Tennessee 17-7 in the second half at frosty, frigid Arrowhead Stadium. But an offense that inexplicably went conservative down the stretch and a defense that finally cracked allowed the Titans to rally for a 19-17 victory.When the Raiders beat San Diego later in the afternoon, it was Oakland that had improved to 11-3, moved atop the division and clinched its first playoff berth since the 2002 season -- and the Chiefs who were 10-4, in second place and with their own postseason fate still in the balance.Everything we want is still right there ahead of us, Chiefs wide receiver Jeremy Maclin said. We just need to go out, get back to the film room, get back to practice, correct our mistakes and learn from them.There were plenty of mistakes to learn from, beginning with two scoreless red-zone trips, another poor day of third-down conversions and an offense that went into a shell at halftime. It was the third straight week they failed to score an offensive touchdown in the second half.We were awful on third down and we didnt capitalize in the red zone, Maclin said. We could have put the game away much, much earlier, so we have nobody to blame but ourselves.The loss was damaging on several fronts for Kansas City, but most importantly when it comes to playoff positioning. The Chiefs own the tiebreaker over the Raiders by virtue of their head-to-head wins, but they are now a full game behind their division rivals in the standings. That means the Chiefs dropped from the No. 2 seed in the AFC, which would have meant a first-round bye and at least one home game, to the No. 5 seed and a first-round game on the road.You can sit here and point fingers, you can do all that stuff that bad teams do, or you can fix the problems. So weve got to make sure we do that, Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. Were still in good position. Weve got a good football team cominng in here.dddddddddddd We need to have a good week of practice. Thats what is real. I have enough trust in this team that well do that.That team coming in will be the Denver Broncos, who are in desperation mode of their own after a loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday. The Chiefs play them at Arrowhead Stadium on Christmas night.By then, theyll know what has transpired Saturday in Oaklands game against Indianapolis.The Chiefs dont plan to be scoreboard-watching, though, because what happens in that game doesnt much matter to them if they dont take care of Denver. And if they cant right their wrongs from a disheartening loss to Tennessee, the same fate is liable to befall them next Sunday.That means better execution on third down. Better play-calling across the board. Better everything when the Chiefs get inside the 20-yard line, the scoring zone that has given them fits all season.We have to get it figured out, said Alex Smith, who threw an interception in the end zone early in the second half when the Chiefs had a chance to essentially put the game away.I mean, its easy to say (the Chiefs got conservative) when things dont go well, he said. Certainly we were not in a rhythm at all. We did not get anything going. We were pretty stagnant in the second half, so its easy to say when things are not going well. Youve got to look at it and get better.Smith paused for a second before putting everything into perspective.This time of year, these are all huge games, he said, and the littlest things make big differences.Game notes Reid said Monday he had talked to TE Travis Kelce, who was critical of what he considered to be overly conservative second-half play-calling Sunday. He wants to be the guy who gets the ball and wins the game for you, and Im all for that, Reid said. He was the first one to come to me and say it didnt come out the way he really wanted it to. He just wants to be the guy who makes the play.---For more coverage: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '