NEW YORK RANGERS POST GAME WRAP UP: RANGERS VS CAPITALS 2/28

Rangers End February on the Downside, Fall to Caps 4-1

Coming into tonight's contest already without Dan Girardi, ankle and Kevin Klein, back spasms the Rangers would also have to scratch center Mika Zibanejad. Zibanejad who skated in warm ups was scratched due to an upper body injury.

The Ranger looked good through most of the first period scoring the first goal on a tic tac toe play with Brady Skjei putting one past Caps Goalie Braden Holtby for the lead. The Caps wer able to come back late in the period and send the game to intermission tied 1-1.

Coming out in the second period the Caps took the game to the Rangers blasting 18 shots on goal during the 20 minutes. The Rangers scored what was though to be the go ahead goal by Michael Grabner but aftrer a Caps coach's challenge and a lenghty review the goal was waived for an offsides. The Caps continued their momentum and took the lead 2-1.

The Capitals were able to add two more goals in the third period to take the win 4-1. The Rangers looked very disorganized for most of the game without key players and four mostly new lines.

Back to Action on Thursday as the Rangers Visit the Boston Bruins for a 7:00 PM Game Start.

FINAL GAME STATS 

NEW YORK RANGERS 1 WASHINGTON CAPITALS 2
POWER PLAY: NYR 0/4 WSH 0/1

SHOTS ON GOAL: NYR  WSH

GOALTENDERS:
Washington - B. Holtby (29 SV)
New York - H. Lundqvist (34 SV)

SCORING SUMMARY
1ST PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS SCORE
05:08 New York Brady Skjei (3) ASST: Adam Clendening (8), J.T. Miller (29) 0-1
2ND PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS SCORE
07:28 Washington Marcus Johansson (20) ASST: Dmitry Orlov (24), Evgeny Kuznetsov (34) 1-1
16:26 Washington Brett Connolly (13) ASST: Matt Niskanen (29), Lars Eller (12) 2-1
3RD PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS SCORE
01:15 Washington Marcus Johansson (21) ASST: Evgeny Kuznetsov (35), Matt Niskanen (30) 3-1
17:57 Washington PPG - Nicklas Backstrom (19) ASST: Marcus Johansson (22), John Carlson (25) 4-1

PENALTY SUMMARY
1ST PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS
08:09 Washington John Carlson - Tripping - 2 minutes
11:02 Washington Evgeny Kuznetsov - Cross-checking - 2 minutes
2ND PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS
00:35 New York Marc Staal - Cross-checking - 2 minutes
07:07 New York Adam Clendening - Fighting - 5 minutes
07:07 Washington Daniel Winnik - Fighting - 5 minutes
3RD PERIOD
TIME TEAM DETAILS
08:56 Washington Nicklas Backstrom - Interference - 2 minutes
13:43 Washington Dmitry Orlov - Interference - 2 minutes
17:13 New York Ryan McDonagh - Holding - 2 minutes