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Mark Warburton believes Rangers have taken another step in the right direction after seeing off Mike Ashleys latest courtroom challenge and says he has received excellent backing from the clubs board. The ongoing feud between the Newcastle owner and Gers chairman Dave King took a fresh twist on Thursday when it emerged Ashley had abandoned legal action calling into question the Scottish Football Associations decision to clear King to run the Ibrox outfit.King agreed to pay the South African taxman £43.7m to settle a long-running tax dispute three years ago and was cleared by the SFA to sit on the Rangers board last May after the governing body carried out an unprecedented due diligence process. Rangers chairman Dave King (middle) takes in the Scottish Cup semi-final against Celtic While both the Ibrox side and the SFA still hope the judge hearing the case will order Ashley to stump up for their legal costs, Warburton is just pleased to see another of the troublesome battles with the Sports Direct supremo ticked off.Its another side issue because it is above my pay grade, thats for sure. You always want the club to be on the back pages not the front pages and thats the important thing, he said. If thats another one gone then all well and good.Its about putting Rangers on the back pages and being really positive in the message on what the team achieves. If we can do that more often, well be in a good place. Mike Ashley is awaiting a judges decision on whether he has to pay the legal bills of the SFA and Rangers chairman Dave King Asked if he was satisfied with the backing he had received from the chairman and his fellow directors, Warburton said: Its been excellent. We came in last summer and had to recruit a number of players really quickly.We got that backing to bring in the likes of James Tavernier, Martyn Waghorn, Andy Halliday, Jason Holt, Rob Kiernan, Wes Foderingham and all the names you know. Outstanding. We got their support to move quickly and we had to move quickly to get them in.The communication lines are really important. They are clear. Every day we speak two or three times to [managing director] Stewart Robertson and [director of finance and administration] Andrew Dickson. As long as we maintain that well be okay. Warburton (centre) and Lee Wallace with the Scottish Championship trophy Last June the same questions were asked. Will we get the players in? Then again in the January window. Will you recruit? Will you have the money?But so far we are in a good place. Weve achieved the target of winning the league in a convincing manner, the Petrofac Training Cup was a nice bonus, weve had a very strong cup run and now we are in the Scottish Cup final so the club is in a good place right now. Warburton oversees Rangers training ahead of their clash with St Mirren The board have delivered so far and they know how far weve got to go. If people think were finished by getting back to the Premiership they are sadly mistaken. We have to keep pushing forward. The moment we stop being positive and pushing forward then we have a problem.Rangers will finally bring the curtain down on their four-year trawl through the lower leagues on Sunday with their final Championship fixture of the campaign away to St Mirren.The clash will also see striker Waghorn make his return to action following 10 weeks out with a knee injury and, after having to sit out the Scottish Cup semi-final triumph over Celtic and with the final against Hibs to come on May 21, he is determined not to miss out on any further glory. Martyn Waghorn is in line to return to the Rangers team after injury Its been tough, he said. The boys won the league without me, the Petrofac Cup too and the semi-final against Celtic.The Celtic match would have been the biggest game of my career to date. But you just have to deal with it. Ive been desperate to get back and Im looking forward to Sunday. 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Mike Cammalleri had two goals and Mikael Backlund had two assists for Calgary, which has dropped seven of nine. Goalie Karri Ramo made 23 saves for the Flames. Early, it looked like Colorado would cruise against the struggling Flames. The Avalanche were up 2-0 after Stastny scored on a 5-on-3 1:09 into the second period, but Cammalleri kept Calgary close. He scored his first goal on a pass from Backlund early in the second, and 2:30 after Mitchell restored Colorados two-goal lead, he beat Giguere again to make it 3-2 midway through the second period. It wasnt enough to overcome another slow beginning. "I thought it was the start again. I dont know what it is," Cammalleri said. "It seems like were in kind of a little bit wait-and-see and then we spot them two or three and it makes it hard." Cammalleri nearly got the hat trick on an 2-on-1 rush late in the period but Giguere made the save. "Hes a capable goaltender. Hes going to make his saves," Cammalleri said. "Im sure if you ask him on the goals hed like to have them back and the ones he saved Id like to have them back." Giguere had to be sharp again in the thiird to keep the game from going to overtime.dddddddddddd He stopped Cammalleri again on the power play in the first minute of the period and made 13 saves in the frame. Jiri Hudler had a backhand chance with 2:35 left but Giguere made a sprawling save. The Flames pulled Ramo for an extra skater with just over a minute remaining but couldnt get the equalizer. Duchene iced it with an empty-netter in the final seconds. It was his 11th goal of the season. "I think after the first period we might have taken them lightly," Duchene said. "We dominated the first period. The second and third I thought they were skating downhill." Colorado survived to rebound after a tough loss to Nashville on Thursday. "This was a big game for us. After going 12-1, you lose a game, it would be easy to go into bad habits and lose some," Giguere said. "We ended up getting a big win. We should be happy with this one." The Flames are searching for answers after another tough loss. They started the season 4-2-2 but have earned just four points in their last nine games. "We had some real bad turnovers that ended up in our net," Calgary coach Bob Hartley said. "This league, its not a feel-good league. Moral victories do not exist, you need to put points on the board." The Avalanche scored first when OReilly one-timed a pass from P.A. Parenteau just 5:31 into the game. It was OReillys sixth of the season and extended his goal streak to three games. NOTES: Avalanche D Ryan Wilson (back) was scratched from the lineup. Nick Holden played in his place against Calgary. Wilson is expected to miss at least two weeks. ... The Flames acquired D Ladislav Smid and goalie prospect Olivier Roy from Edmonton for centre Roman Horak and goalie prospect Laurent Brossoit on Friday. Smid is expected to join the team in Calgary on Saturday while Roy will report to Anchorage of the ECHL. ... Duchene missed Thursdays practice with a bruise foot suffered in Wednesdays loss to Nashville. ' ' '