On MSG, Chris Kreider spoke about his first period penalty shot and said:
- "Just trying to get him to move a bit. I had him here, low block, high block, and he just moves at the last minute and catches it with his butt end. Sometimes that is just the way it goes."
Asked if he felt good about at least creating
chances, Kreider said "It's always a good thing when you are producing
chances but the next step is putting the puck in the net. I am happy
with the move and the location, it's just hard. I wouldn't change it,
wouldn't change what I did last game, just how it goes."
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) Rick Nash
scored 2:01 into overtime for his third goal of the game, lifting the
New York Rangers to a 5-4 victory over the Florida Panthers on Saturday
night.
Mats Zuccarello and Viktor Stalberg each scored goals in the third period to put the Rangers ahead 4-2. Henrik Lundqvist made 39 saves as New York bounced back after a loss at Tampa Bay on Thursday night snapped its nine-game winning streak.
Jaromir Jagr, Aleksander Barkov, Jussi Jokinen and Nick Bjugstad scored for the Panthers. Roberto Luongo stopped 26 shots.
Nash's winning goal came on
the power-play when his wrist shot from the right circle got past Luongo
to give the Rangers their seventh straight win against the Panthers -
and fourth straight against Luongo.
Down two goals, the Panthers scored twice in a 39-second span late in the third period to send the game into overtime.
Barkov's power-play goal
pulled Florida to 4-3 with 2:28 left, and Jagr then sent a shot from the
right circle over Lundqvist's shoulder with 1:49 to go. Both goals came
as the Panthers played with an empty net.
Reilly Smith missed a penalty shot for Florida with 1:42 left when his shot went high.
Zuccarello put the Rangers ahead 3-2 when he came on a breakaway and put the puck past Luongo with 9:44 to go in the third.
Stalberg stretched the lead to 4-2 when he beat Luongo from low in the right circle on the short side nearly 2 minutes later.
Nash gave the Rangers a 1-0
lead when his shot from below the right circle got past Luongo's glove
and went high into the net with 8:52 left in the first period.
Bjugstad tied it at 6:46 of
the second as Pirri passed from the left circle to Bjugstad in front
and he put the puck underneath Lundqvist's pads.
Nash's second goal put the
Rangers ahead 2-1 when he brought the puck from his own end and his shot
from the left circle beat Luongo on the short side with 6:38 to go in
the second.
The Panthers tied it again when Jokinen, in front of the crease, tipped in a shot from the right circle by Brandon Pirri with 2:03 left in the second.
Earlier in the second,
Lundqvist took a puck to the groin area on a shot by Bjugstad at 3:28
and took several minutes to recover.
Chris Kreider had a penalty with 6:15 left in the first when he was hooked by Aaron Ekblad.
Kreider shot from low in the right circle but Luongo turned it aside
with his blocker. According to Elias, Kreider, who had an unsuccessful
penalty shot in the third period on Thursday at Tampa Bay, is the first
player in Rangers history to have a penalty shot in back-to-back games.
The last player in the NHL to have penalty shots in consecutive games
was Marian Hossa in 2005 for Atlanta.
Midway through the first, the Rangers killed off a pair of penalties, including a 5-on-3 for 1:14.
NOTES: Rangers D Dan Girardi
tied James Patrick for 13th place on the Rangers' all-time games played
list and tied Patrick for the fifth-most career games played by a
defenseman in franchise history. ... Panthers D Dmitry Kulikov is out for two to four weeks with a leg injury.
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