NY Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh (27) steals the puck from St. Louis Blues right wing Vladimir Tarasenko (91), of Russian Federation, as Rangers center J.T. Miller (10) looks on in the third period of an NHL hockey game in NY, Thursday, November 12, 2015.
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The St. Louis Blues finally got one on the board off a mistake from Henrik Lundqvist as he was having trouble handling the puck.
Zuccarello scored a goal and added two assists to continue his torrid November.
“We can’t give a good team a 3-0 lead in the first 15 minutes and expect to have success, especially on the road”, Blues captain David Backes said.
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) – Bears defensive tackle Ego Ferguson became the second Chicago player in three days to be suspended four games for violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing substances. “It starts with his compete level”, Stepan said. You put the skillset that he has with it, you saw the goal he had tonight. 4, St. Louis, Jaskin 1 (Parayko, Brodziak), 16:40. Off a Blues turnover in the neutral zone, Zuccarello took a pass from Brassard, cut inside Blues defenseman Jay Bouwmeester and beat Allen with a high wrist shot blocker side.
The Rangers chased Allen at 14:38 of the first period on right winger Kevin Hayes’ fifth goal of the season.
The Rangers scored on each of their first two shots, and three of their first five, against goalie Jake Allen, who was coming off consecutive shutouts and lifted for Brian Elliott.
“Those are our fault in front of him”. Dan Girardi ended it with a shot into the empty net with 1:34 remaining, and the Blueshirts held off a 6-on-4 empty-net-abled power play over the final 1:18 for the win. “But we still need to improve our process”.
“We’re trying to get something going momentum-wise”, Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said.
“The best period we played all year on the road was the first period and we were down 3-0”, he said. “This is the way he played the first time I saw him in the Olympics in 2010 in Vancouver”. But now I think he’s just letting his game go and you can see the result. “But we made mistakes”.
Even the ending shouted luck, ability and agility as Rangers coach Alain Vigneault was knocked off the bench by a blistering Jarret Stoll clearing shot after one last strong save by Henrik Lundqvist. “We’ve done it three or four times this year already”. “I thought (it was) one of the hardest competition games (we’ve) had”.
Jamie Benn’s power-play goal with 5:55 left in the third period helped the Dallas Stars to a 6-3 win over the Winnipeg Jets as they moved clear at the top of the Central Division.
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So the Rangers (12-2-2) won their seventh straight and extended their point streak to 11 games (9-0-2) as Lundqvist, who entered the game off Tuesday’s 2-0 win over the Hurricanes for his first shutout of the season and with a 1.65 goals-against average and. Robert Bortuzzo, Steve Ott and Ryan Reaves were listed as scratches by the Blues….
