Well, well what do we have here? A four game win streak! The first of the NYR 25/26 season and in fact, the first since Oct 14-22 2024 when they also won four in a row. All this winning has moved them from the #2 draft pick to … #4. Then again, if they win their last 16, they’ll have 96 points and an outside shot of the playoffs and crush the Pen’s NHL record 17 game winning streak of 1992/93. 😉
So the Wild were pretty tame, even though the refs did their best to get them back in the game by giving the Rangers 18 minutes in penalties. For awhile it even looked like the Rangers would score six goals again.
Laba (9) started the scoring with a PPG at just 02:41, another shockingly early goal for the Rangers, when Perreault (11) hit Laba in stride for a wrist shot from just inside the right circle. Gavrikov (16) would get the secondary. Speaking of which, Gavrikov (13) would put the NYR up 2-0 at 15:00 when he decided to imitate one of those eight figure forwards by backhanding the puck into the net while facing and moving towards the circle. Kartye (10) and Fox (28) with the assists. 2-0 NYR after one.
Boldy (38!) would score a PPG at just 00:35 of the second period, Kartye having been given a cross-checking penalty as time expired in the first. Boldy put the wrist shot between Borgen’s legs to beat Shesterkin easily. 2-1 NYR until 08:41 when Chmelař (2) would get his second career goal, a pretty backhand net front after a Wild neutral zone turnover – Vaakanainen (6) moving the puck quickly to Raddysh (9) on the wall at the blue line who then centered the puck to Chmelař in stride.
Trocheck (13) would put the Rangers up 4-1 with the last score of the second period at 09:03, a weird deflection of a Gavrikov (17) shot from the top of the circle into a crowd above the net. Fox (29) would get the secondary.
The only goal of the third period was by Yurov (10) at 07:19 to narrow the NYR lead to 4-2. The Wild were unable to get past Shesterkin again, even with four more power play opportunities. Final score NYR 4 MIN 2.
Game summary below:
The Rangers will be back at MSG to take on the LA Kings on Monday, 16 March at 19:00 EDT, telecast by MSG and FDSNW. Stale bread will be served to fans at the game.
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