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ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Cardinals announced after Friday nights game with the San Francisco Giants that they have called up top prospect Oscar Taveras from Triple-A Memphis. Taveras, a 21-year-old outfielder, was batting .325 in 49 games with Memphis with seven homers and 40 RBIs. He will take the place of Matt Adams, who was put on the disabled list with a left calf strain. Cardinals senior vice-president and general manager John Mozeliak said the move was made when they found out Adams would not be available for a couple more days. "It made sense in two ways," Mozeliak said. "One, let Matt Adams heal, and two, its an opportunity to give Oscar some playing time and not have to worry about the balance of power and worry about whos playing and whos not." The Cardinals signed Taveras in 2008 out of the Dominican Republic. Before this season, Taveras was ranked as the No. 3 overall prospect by MLB.com and Baseball America. He has a career .321 average over six minor league seasons. 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We did a good job trying to get the win, and we did.Boychuks third goal gave the Islanders (24-11-1) their 14th home win, topping their total from last season. New York, 14-4 at home, snapped a two-game losing streak.Maybe this is a game we dont win last year, Islanders coach Jack Capuano said. But we kept with it and found a way. You have to play structured hockey in this league, and our goaltender played really well to give us a chance to win.Anders Lee, Lubomir Visnovsky and Calvin de Haan also scored for the Islanders. Jaroslav Halak made 23 saves in his return from injury.The Islanders have won 11 of their last 13 home games.We get an energetic boost from our passionate fans, Islanders captain John Tavares said. We want to feed off that.The Capitals (18-11-7) lost for the second time in three games leading into the outtdoor Winter Classic against Chicago on Thursday.ddddddddddddLee opened the scoring at 8:15 of the first with his eighth of the season. Visnovskys power-play goal at 10:06 of the second made it 2-0.The Islanders made it a three-goal edge on de Haans first goal of the season — a short-handed tally — at 1:41 of the third.Halak improved to 19-6 in his return from a two-game absence caused by a lower-body injury. New York lost both games he missed.The Capitals got going 4:40 into the third on Fehrs goal. Backstrom made it a one-goal game at 6:29 with his 12th of the season on a set up by Ovechkin, who then tied it with his team-leading 17th at 17:19.Our first two periods werent good but we fought and came back, Ovechkin said. We have to be better earlier in games.The Islanders, who are heading out on a seven-game road trip, improved to 7-2-6 in their last 15 games against Washington.They are 16-2-1 in games decided by one goal and 19-4-1 when they net at least three.With all the emotion in the building, we really wanted to send our fans off on a good note, Boychuk said. Our best chances come when you shoot the puck, and I heard the crowd yelling for me to shoot. Anything can happen when you do, and it did.The Capitals went 8-2-3 in December, with Holtby starting each game.Capitals defenceman Brooks Orpik had to be helped from the ice with 7:20 left in the third period after he appeared to injure his right knee in a collision with Islanders forward Cal Clutterbuck.NOTES: The teams will meet again Feb. 21 at Washington. ... The Islanders scratched defencemen Brian Strait and Matt Donovan and forward Eric Boulton. ... The Capitals scratched LW Andre Burakovsky and D Nate Schmidt. ' ' '