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NEW YORK -- The Calgary Flames are staying afloat during a six-game Eastern Conference road trip. They will try to close the trek out in winning style Monday when they face the skidding New York Islanders at Barclays Center.Both teams are coming off losses. Calgary fell to the Philadelphia Flyers 5-3 Sunday night, while New York dropped a 3-2 decision to the Sharks in San Jose on Friday. The Islanders return home to open a brief two-game homestand.The Flames already ensured themselves of at least a .500 trip (3-2-0). They enter play Monday two points behind the Nashville Predators and Dallas Stars in the race for the final Western Conference wild-card berth.Its a disappointing loss, but we have back-to-back games and weve got to finish this trip off on the right note, Flames defenseman Mark Giordano said Sunday night. If we win (Monday), its a 4-2 trip, and thats a good trip.The Flames (10-13-1) should have some added motivation after giving up three unanswered goals in the second period Sunday night as the Flyers turned a tie game into a rout.I was very disappointed with our guys after the first, Flames coach Glen Gulutzan said. I let them know that and it didnt get any better in the second. Theres no system for being outworked.If there were, perhaps Islanders coach Jack Capuano would feel better about his teams fortunes. New York, which reached the second round of the playoffs last spring for the first time since 1993, enters Monday with a 6-10-4 record. The Islanders have the fewest wins and points (16) in the NHL.Eight of the Islanders losses were by one goal. New York allowed the go-ahead goal in the final three minutes of the third period five times, including Friday, when the Islanders tied the score with 57.2 seconds remaining, only to give up the winning goal to the Sharks with 22.5 seconds to play.Its just mind-boggling, Islanders coach Jack Capuano said. We played one of the best games weve played. We came in here against San Jose -- Stanley Cup finalists -- (and we) dominate the third period. No puck luck right now. There is no explanation.Also a fact for the Islanders: They are all but buried in the playoff race already. New York is a whopping nine points behind the New Jersey Devils in the race for the final Eastern Conference wild-card spot.The goalie matchup Monday likely will pit the Islanders No. 1 netminder, Jaroslav Halak, against Flames backup Brian Elliott.Halak didnt play Friday but started eight of the Islanders first 10 games in November. He is 8-5-1 in his career against the Flames. 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JOHANNESBURG -- Rugby sevens will also be missing a global star on its return to the Olympics next month, although its got nothing to do with Zika.Bryan Habana, the World Cup-winning South African wing who set his sights on adding an Olympic medal to a career bursting with titles and honors in the 15-a-side game, failed Thursday to make South Africas final squad for the Rio de Janeiro Games.Habana set aside his commitments with South Africas main Springboks team this season to return to sevens, which he hadnt played at the top level for more than a decade, in the hope of going to Rio. He appeared in the world sevens series and was on an initial Blitzboks training squad named for the Olympics.My appreciation and gratitude for getting the opportunity to have been a part of the (at)blitzboks (hash)RoadToRio far outweighs the disappointment of not making the final squad, Habana wrote on Instagram.ddddddddddddRugby -- this time in the seven-a-side form -- will return to the Olympics next month for the first time since 1924.Habana joins another big name in the 15-man game, Australias Quade Cooper, in missing out on selection for his countrys Olympic team.Habana has won a World Cup and a southern hemisphere title with the Springboks, and also southern hemisphere and European club titles. He was the world player of the year in 2007.One 15-a-side international, Juan de Jongh, did make South Africas 12-man squad while another, Francois Hougaard, is one of two traveling reserves.South Africa is among the favorites for gold in the Olympic rugby sevens alongside other traditional sevens powers Fiji and New Zealand. ' ' '