Congratulations to Mika Zibanejad on being named this season’s NorthwellHealth Steven McDonald Extra Effort Award Winner by NY Ranger fans!
The Rangers continued their mysterious winning ways, though in doing so hurt their draft position, by spanking the Devils 4-1 last night at the Garden. Its the Ranger way!
Sheary (6) started the scoring while continuing his own inexplicable late season surge at 08:14 of the first period, tipping in a Kartye (12) shot; Borgen (10) with the secondary assist. Five minutes later Miller (16) would get a PPG at 13:39 from the blue after Lafreniere (30) sent him a bullet of a cross ice pass from the bottom of the right circle; Fox (37) also credited with an assist. 2-0 NYR after one.
The second period would see the teams exchange goals. Brown (16) on the PPG at just 00:51 was first for the Devils. Chmelař (3) would get that back at 11:12, buzzing the net front and banging home the rebound of a hard shot by Schneider (15). 3-1 NYR after two.
There was only one goal in the third period but more than enough fireworks to keep MSG fans rocking. Zibanejad (33) finished March as he started, scoring goals, this time at 03:49 and easily at the corner of the net off a beautiful diagonal pass from Perreault (15) from the left circle; Fox (38) with another secondary assist.
And then there was the fight. Around the 9:00 mark, Shesterkin took exception to Cotter running him, or as the refs would say “interfered with,” by getting into some shoving behind the net, possibly also landing a small punch. This apparently ignited something within Devil’s goalie Markstrom who skated to the Rangers end to challenge Shesterkin to a fight. He really should not have done that as word is Shesterkin has been taking boxing lessons. Hockeyfights.com has the match scored 88% in Igor’s favor and 8% a draw. Markstrom won’t be doing that again!
Final score: NYR 4 NJD 1 and the first three game home win streak of the 25/26 season.
Game summary below:
The Rangers start their final stretch of seven games on 2 April against Les Habs at MSG, 19:00 EDT. MSG and likely SN and RDS with the telecast.
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