The Rangers made it 2-0 on Zuccarello’s team-leading eighth goal of the season.
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Mats Zuccarello (second from left) was one of three Rangers with first-period goals in their 6-3 win.
Brassard snapped Allen’s scoreless streak at 170:53 when he got position just off the left post and snapped in Zuccarello’s feed from behind the crease at 4:54 of the first period on the Rangers’ first shot.
Zuccarello then made it 2-0 at 7:12 on the Rangers’ second shot, taking Brassard’s pass, and slipping past Jay Bouwmeester, spinning the big defenseman, before slipping the puck under Allen’s pads.
Elsewhere, the Arizona Coyotes crushed the Edmonton Oilers 4-1, the Buffalo Sabres squeezed past the Florida Panthers 3-2 and Matt Duchene netted the Colorado Avalanche’s decisive third in their 3-2 win against the Boston Bruins.
DALLAS – Jamie Benn scored the game-winning goal on the power play with 5:55 left in the third period to a 6-3 victory against the Winnipeg Jets at American Airlines Center on Thursday, 39 seconds after the Stars finished killing off a double minor against Tyler Seguin for high sticking.
BRIEFS: Defenseman Dan Girardi scored an empty-netter at 18:26 of the third period.
I’m looking forward to the next Blues game already.
“Seventy-five percent of their offense was coming off our puck management”, Vigneault said, “and once we cleaned that up in the third, we were fine”. Early in the 2 period the Blues rode that momentum as Vladimir Taransenko broke away from Stalberg and found the back of the net bringing the game closer than the Rangers would have liked.
“We’re trying to get something going momentum-wise”, Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said.
LOS ANGELES – Enroth made 31 saves, and Milan Lucic scored in the second period to give the Kings a 2-1 win against the NY Islanders at Staples Center on Thursday.
“I think that (Jarret) has gotten better at how we play, and there’s no doubt that Dom’s more fluid on the ice as far as the skating ability”, Vigneault admitted pre-game. “I thought for sure with the way we were playing, we were really dominating the offensive zone I thought we were going to win for sure”.
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That lifted Arizona above Vancouver in the Pacific Division after the Canucks lost 3-2 to the Ottawa Senators, frustrated by 33 saves from Andrew Hammond. Captain Ryan McDonagh was able to get a long slap shot to go on the power play at 2:44, giving his team a 5-3 lead that they held on to for dear life over the final 17 minutes.
The Rangers have now won seven straight games to improve to 12-2-2 on the season, and they will be back in action on Saturday against the Ottawa Senators.
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NOTES: NY scratched Dylan McIlrath and Dominic Moore…. “So obviously they know how to win, they know how to play when the game is on the line”. “We made mistakes and we paid for it. They have a few good one-on-one players, but we had a lot of scoring chances today – a lot”.
