Rangers flip the script quite literally.
After knocking out their season-opener against the Islanders two nights earlier, the Rangers turned around and gave it back on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden with Barry Trots and his 5-0 shootout performance on the company.
The Rangers – in a 4-0 loss, with head coach David Quinn questioning their efforts – finally showed up in the 2020-21 season. Even with their second-highest paid defense player, Tony D’Angelo, looking like a Rangers team, with the coaching staff concentrating on training camp, due to the indecisive behavior penalty taken in the first game.
The effort was there. Smart passes were there. The Rangers were there.
Behind every two goals from Pavel Buknevich and Artemi Perrin, the Rangers got the momentum they needed from their top line. Alexander Georgiev recorded the fifth shutout of his career, with 23 wins.
The islanders received an early feast, when Golender Semyon Verlamov had to leave the ice by choking and strangling, allowing Russian offender Ilya Sorokin to enter his NHL without warning.
The Rangers jumped to a 2-0 first-period lead, hitting the poles early on the shot. Mika Zibenezade opened the scoring and stole the puck from Islanders defender Noah Dobson, who met Buchanewich in a 2: 1-1 run at 2:12 p.m.
He quickly succeeded in defending the island when Ryan Pulok pulled a Jacob Troba shot to the side of the head and immediately went into the locker room. But Pulok returned early in the second period.
Brendon Smith then blocked a pass and hit a streaking Panarin, who beat Sorokin on the right to give the Rangers a 2-0 lead at 13:46, putting behind him the impact of his three-goal first-period in Thursday’s loss. .
In the second period, the people of the island hit a number of fines, including two on the Multive Basel. After Scott Mayfield got entangled with a linesman, Buchanewich scooped up the puck and ripped a hard-angled shot from the left to make it 3-0 early in the second half.
The Philippe de Giuseppe-Philippe Chital-Capo Cacco line was forcing turnover during the next period, while Cacco completed it on a one-timer at 15:24 of the second.
Maintaining time in the Rangers zone and playing two shots from the post in the final two minutes, the Islanders played a better role in the third period, but the entire Rangers dominated.
After Ross Johnston was fined for fighting against Russell John Ndgren and Troba, Panry cleared the debris on the power play to cap the scoring.
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