(My Sportsbook) - After winning back-to-back games for the first time this season early last week, the Flames have fallen into a four-match losing streak. Calgary returned home from a road trip to host the New York Rangers on Thursday in the opener of a five-game homestand, but the results were all too familiar with a 2-1 loss.

Jarome Iginla posted the lone goal for Calgary, while Jamie McLennan made 28 saves in a losing cause.

Trailing 1-0 entering the second period, New York tied the game 4:09 into the stanza on Petr Nedved's shorthanded goal. Mikael Samuelsson's shot on McLennan was deflected and the puck bounced out to Nedved, who skated through the left circle and wristed a shot into the open net.

Samuelsson then gave the Rangers a 2-1 lead with his fifth goal of the season at the 11:22 mark of the second stanza.

New York goalie Dan Blackburn bodied down many shots in the final period, including Iginla's point-blank chance with less than a minute left to preserve the win.

The Flames grabbed a 1-0 lead with 39 seconds left in the opening period. Rookie defenseman Jordan Leopold controlled the puck inside the New York zone and sent a pass from the left circle to a streaking Iginla, who pushed the puck into the net for his first goal since October 31 -- a span of six games.

"I thought we had too many perimeter shots. We didn't generate enough quality scoring chances. We have to find a way to score more than one goal a game," said Iginla. "There are a lot of goals that come off rebounds and things like that. If we are getting seven chances, we have to find a way to get the eighth."

So has the league's reigning scoring champ had enough of the losing streak?

"Yeah, that's enough losing," said Iginla. "We have four more games here at home and they are all important."

Calgary hasn't been able to get much consistency this year, and Iginla believes his club's scoring woes are to blame. The Flames rank 13th in the Western Conference with a 2.35 goals per-game average.

Iginla has 14 points (4g, 10a) in 16 games. But he has just two goals in the last 12 tilts, and one in the past seven.

"We are snake-bitten. We have to find a way to score more goals. We have to slay the snake," declared head coach Greg Gilbert. "We have to battle through it and score goals. It is testing our mental toughness as a team. But that is what makes good teams. You battle through things and become a better team."

WHAT'S NEXT

Calgary's homestand continues on Saturday with a game against the St. Louis Blues, followed by a meeting with the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday. Next Thursday, the Flames host the Edmonton Oilers before wrapping up the set versus Chicago.