Strome, Rangers Spoil Ovechkin's Milestone With 4-2 Win
New York stretched its point streak to four games, which includes three victories.
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New York stretched its point streak to four games, which includes three victories.
Chris Kreider scored a power-play goal in the third period, helping the New York Rangers to a 3-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday night.
New York has been unimpressive on the blue line through eight games, going 2-4-2. But DeAngelo, who signed a two-year, $9.6 million contract in the offseason, is gone.
Brendan Lemieux, Kevin Rooney, Chris Kreider and Artemi Panarin scored for New York (2-4-2), which lost for the fifth time in six games — all of them decided by one goal.
Another long wait ended Thursday for Alexis Lafreniere, who scored his first career goal 2:47 into overtime to secure a win over the Buffalo Sabres.
Chris Kreider and K'Andre Miller scored first-period goals for the Rangers.
Jake Guentzel scored the 100th goal of his NHL career with less than two minutes remaining, rallying the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-2 win over the New York Rangers on Sunday night.
New York's Filip Chytil, Adam Fox and Kaapo Kakko scored in a 3:01 span of the second period to give the Rangers a 3-1 lead. Igor Shesterkin made 26 stops but let in two of the three shots he faced in the shootout.
Alexandar Georgiev gave up four goals on 20 shots through two periods. Igor Shesterkin came on to begin the third and finished with eight saves.
Kaapo Kakko also scored as the Rangers bounced back for their first victory two nights after being blanked 4-0 by the Islanders in the season opener.
Semyon Varlamov stopped 24 shots for his 28th career shutout and third with the Islanders.
The 6-foot-1 left wing becomes the first Canadian to go No. 1 since Connor McDavid was chosen by Edmonton in 2015.
The Rangers are officially parting ways with their long-time goaltender.
The NHL's wild and weird Draft Lottery concluded with Phase 2 on Monday and it was the New York Rangers who lucked their way into the No. 1 pick in the upcoming draft.
Reimer helped the Hurricanes close out a three-game sweep of the New York Rangers in a qualifier series Tuesday night.
