TAMPA – Brayden Level and Nikita Kucherov every had a purpose and two assists to steer the Tampa Bay Lightning previous the reeling New York Rangers 6-2 on Saturday evening.
Anthony Cirelli and Ryan McDonagh each had a short-handed purpose. Jake Guentzel and Nick Paul additionally scored for the Lightning, who’ve received six of seven. Andrei Vasilevskiy completed with 42 saves.
Artemi Panarin had a power-play purpose and Vincent Trocheck scored short-handed for New York. Igor Shesterkin allowed 5 targets on 13 pictures earlier than being pulled on the 8:08 mark of the second interval. Jonathan Fast allowed one purpose on 12 pictures.
After a powerful begin, the Rangers are 4-14 of their previous 18 video games.
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Tampa Bay pulled away with three targets within the second, one by Level. He has 23 this season, one behind Edmonton star Leon Draisaitl for the NHL lead.
Veteran ahead Chris Kreider returned to the Rangers’ lineup after being a wholesome scratch Monday towards New Jersey.
Takeaways
Rangers: Shesterkin was pulled from a begin for the third time this season.
Lightning: Tampa Bay captain Victor Hedman turned the franchise chief in video games performed (1,083), surpassing Steven Stamkos. … Cirelli turned the fourth Lightning participant with two short-handed factors in a recreation. He moved previous Rob Zamuner for the second-most short-handed targets (15) in group historical past.
Key second
The Rangers have been on an influence play with the sport tied 1-all when McDonagh went end-to-end towards his former group. He put a shot by way of Shesterkin at 18:11 of the primary to provide Tampa Bay a 2-1 lead after the interval regardless of being outshot 17-6.
Key stat
The Lightning scored two short-handed targets in a recreation for the tenth time in franchise historical past and first since March 2020 towards Boston.
Up subsequent
The Rangers play at Florida on Monday in a rematch of final season’s Japanese Convention closing. Tampa Bay hosts Montreal on Sunday.
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