RANGERS SUFFER ANOTHER OVERTIME LOSS
Despite Hayes 3 Point Game, Lundqvist's Acrobatics Rangers Fall to Vegas 4-3
Even Henrik Lundqvist and his acrobatic saves couldn't help the Rangers overcome the Vegas Golden Knights this afternoon at Madison Square Garden. With 37 saves on the night the story wasn't the amount of saves made but the amount of quality scoring chances that Lundqvist thwarted time after time against the Golden Knights.
The Rangers took any early first period lead 1-0 when Brady Skjei tallied his third goal of the season 1:3 into the game. They would hold the lead until just under 10 minutes later while on the penalty kill as Vegas' Reilly Smith tied the game 1-1 on a fluke when a weird bounce that came back off the glass behind the Rangers net and hit both defenseman Skjei and Lundqvist to just squibble into the net.
Vegas opened the scoring in the second at the 6:09 mark as Paul Stastny tallied his first of the season for the 2-1 lead. Mika Zibanejad would even the score 2-2 on the Rangers power play, their 4th man advantage tally in the past two games, at 12:10 but Vegas would answer back to retake the lead 3-2 just a minute later when William Carrier scored.
The Rangers evened the game up 3:29 into the third period on a goal from Chris Kreider for his team leading 15th of the season. Both the Rangers and Golden Knights exchanged scoring chances for the next 16 minutes of regulation play with Lundqvist out shining his opponent Marc Andre Fleury with more spectacular saves as he had done all night.
Although the Rangers put up a good fight they just couldn't overcome another Vegas odd man rush as just after a Rangers sustained presence in the Vegas zone with tired legs after a long shift, Vegas, Alex Tuch got past the the Rangers defense to deke Lundqvist who went for a sprawling save but was beat his glove side high at 2:11 to end the game in favor of the visitors.
Kevin Hayes tallied his 18th assist of the season, picking up an assist on all 3 Rangers goals tonight and giving him his 200th NHL Career point.
FINAL GAME STATS
New York Rangers 3 Vegas Golden Knights 4
FINAL - OVERTIME Game #32
SOG: NYR 30 VGK 41
PIM: NYR 4 VGK 8
PPO: NYR 1/4 VGK 1/2
HITS: NYR 37 VGK 28
BLKS: NYR 24 VGK 8
GVA: NYR 30 VGK 15
FO%: NYR 50% VGK 50%
GOALTENDERS:
New York: H. LUNDQVIST 37 SV, 4 GA
Vegas: M.A. FLEURY 27 SV, 3 GA
GOALS
Vegas - R. Smith, P. Stastny, W. Carrier, A. Tuch
New York - B. Skjei, M. Zibanejad, C. Kreider
SCORING SUMMARY
1ST PERIOD
01:13 New York Brady Skjei (3) ASST: Pavel Buchnevich (5), Kevin Hayes (16) 0-1
11:40 Vegas PPG - Reilly Smith (7) ASST: Colin Miller (14), Jonathan Marchessault (15) 1-1
2ND PERIOD
06:09 Vegas Paul Stastny (1) ASST: Max Pacioretty (9), Alex Tuch (13) 2-1
12:10 New York PPG - Mika Zibanejad (11) ASST: Kevin Hayes (17), Mats Zuccarello (9) 2-2
13:12 Vegas William Carrier (7) ASST: Tomas Nosek (5) 3-2
3RD PERIOD
03:29 New York Chris Kreider (15) ASST: Kevin Hayes (18) 3-3
OVERTIME
02:11 Vegas Alex Tuch (12) ASST: Paul Stastny (1) 4-3
PENALTY SUMMARY
1ST PERIOD
03:26 Vegas Jonathan Marchessault - Slashing - 2 minutes
10:35 New York Kevin Hayes - Boarding - 2 minutes
12:38 Vegas William Carrier - Hooking - 2 minutes
2ND PERIOD
11:37 Vegas Reilly Smith - Slashing - 2 minutes
18:27 New York Tony DeAngelo - Holding - 2 minutes
3RD PERIOD
05:46 Vegas Oscar Lindberg - Cross-checking - 2 minutes
OVERTIME
No penalties
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