Rangers Meet Their Match, and the Series Is Tied OTTAWA - The Rangers are facing an opponent as scrappy and resilient as themselves. Kyle Turris's goal at 2 minutes 42 seconds of overtime lifted the eighth-seeded Ottawa Senators over the top-seeded Rangers, 3-2, Wednesday night, evening the opening-round series at two games apiece. The Rangers scored two early power-play goals and seemed as if they had the series in hand. But the Senators, playing without their captain, Daniel Alfredsson, clawed back and now have momentum for Game 5 on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. "We're confident in our ability to come back and beat a team like this," Turris said. Rangers Coach John Tortorella said the loss was frustrating, "but, hey you lose two overtimes, it's 2 to 2, and you go back home." The Rangers lost Game 2 on a goal by Chris Neil at 1:17 of overtime Saturday night. Turris took a pass as he crisscrossed with Jim O'Brien in the Rangers" zone and fired the puck while using defenseman Anton Stralman as a screen. The shot went between the legs of Stralman, who earlier in the game scored his second goal of the series, and whizzed over Henrik Lundqvist's glove hand under the crossbar. After taking a 2-0 lead, the Rangers were forced back on their heels starting late in the first period and for most of the rest of the game. The only reason they stayed close was the superb effort by Lundqvist, who stopped 28 shots, and by the Rangers" skaters, who blocked another 30. The score was 2-1 as the second intermission approached, but at 17:50 and with the Rangers killing a penalty to Artem Anisimov, the Senators finally got a clear look at Lundqvist without a thicket of Rangers standing guard in front of him. The puck came from behind Lundqvist's net to defenseman Sergei Gonchar, closing in from the point. With a clear path to Lundqvist for perhaps the first time all night, Gonchar drilled a shot that Lundqvist got a piece of, but the puck slid past him. The Rangers opened the scoring with two quick strikes, both on power plays. Ottawa's Zack Smith was sent off 39 seconds into the game for boarding Ryan McDonagh. Ten seconds later, Stralman put the rebound of a Brad Richards shot past goalie Craig Anderson (31 saves). At 6:10, the Rangers went up, 2-0, on another power play, when Ryan Callahan scored his second goal of the series. The Senators got on the scoreboard at 7:04 of the second period when defenseman Matt Carkner, back from a one-game suspension for attacking Brian Boyle in Game 2, stepped out of the penalty box as the puck arrived. On a two-on-one break, Carkner passed the puck through McDonagh, and Milan Michalek backhanded it past Lundqvist to halve the Senators" deficit. "It's our never-quit attitude," Carkner said. It was the first goal allowed by Lundqvist in 87:04, after his 1-0 shutout in Game 3. "I said after the second game we didn't expect this to be easy," Lundqvist said. So we'll go back and work on our game. Fans were roaring through much of the game in tribute to Alfredsson, who missed his second consecutive game as he recovers from a concussion sustained when elbowed by the Carl Hagelin in Game 2. Alfredsson, 39, has played 109 postseason games in his 16-season career, all with Ottawa, and scored 46 playoff goals. His absence is poignant in the national capital, where he is a beloved figure. A foreboding realization has struck many that No. 11 may have played his last game. He is a father of four who has had two concussions this season, and all year he has been noncommittal about whether he would return next season. In five of six regulation periods here against the Rangers, the fans have saluted Alfredsson by counting down to the 11-minute mark, and then, as play swirls on below, chanting "Alfie, Alfie, Alfie." Hagelin, suspended three games, will be eligible to return for Game 6 in Ottawa. The Senators snapped a seven-game home losing streak in the playoffs. That tied an N.H.L. record shared by four other teams. They had not won at Scotiabank Place since dropping Game 4 of the 2007 Stanley Cup finals against Anaheim. ... The Senators won 66 percent of the face-offs in their Game 3 defeat, and 54 percent in Game 4.