The Rangers refuse to slow down.
Kaapo Kakko and Alexis Lafreniere scored in the skills competition Friday night to give the Rangers a 5-4 win over the Oilers at Rogers Place. They rallied for their seventh consecutive victory by scoring three unanswered goals over the second and third periods to storm back from the deep hole they had fallen into during the opening 20 minutes.
Trailing by three at the start of the second period, the Rangers found themselves on the penalty kill after Lafreniere was called for holding Zach Hyman just under six minutes into the frame.After a deflating first period, the Rangers were still pushing when Adam Fox sprung Chris Kreider for a shorthanded opportunity. Kreider’s pass, intended for Mika Zibanejad, was blocked, but it came right back to Kreider and he buried it at 6:26 of the second period for his second goal of the game.
“We just said the game is far from over, you’ve got 40 minutes,” Gallant said. “It’s the new NHL, it’s not like the game is going to be over. We battled hard and found a way.”Igor Shesterkin’s recent struggles in goal continued in the first period, but he bounced back in the second and backstopped the Rangers to two points. The rest of the team’s play in front of him didn’t do the netminder any favors, but a couple of delayed reactions cost the Rangers.
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