Artemy Panarin's team tortured another opponent. At the gate, “Nashville” visited seven unanswered washers.
New York Rangers fans are rightfully the happiest hockey fans in the world right now. Not only did their team get a convincing move ahead of a promising playoff, but they also learned the zen of what they had been agonizing over throughout the championship. After much thought from Gerard Gallan and constant rotations, effective combinations were nevertheless found. This is evidenced by the performance of the Blueshirts in recent matches: five goals against Washington and ten goals in two games in a row with Pittsburgh.
The beating of rivals by the guys from Broadway did not stop there. Their next victims were the poor Nashville Predators. To date, their nickname «predators» has nothing to do with reality. On the contrary, the rich from New York notably hunted the «saber-toothed».
Already in the tenth minute of the match, “Rangers” brought the matter to defeat. In turn, pucks one after another at the gates of “Nashville” were thrown by Philip Hitil, Mika Zibanejad, Tyler Mott, K'Andre Miller and Artemiy Panarin. The Russian star forward has already recorded 3 points (1 goal and 2 assists) and spent his 11th period with the Rangers with three or more effective actions. Thus, Khlebushek approached the club record held by Rod Gilbert (13 periods). Panarin also became only the second Russian player this season to reach the 80 point mark. The first is Nikita Kucherov, who scored 100 points today in a parallel meeting with New Jersey.
And that's because the “Rangers” was not enough! They continued to frankly mock the opponent, who almost begged for mercy. All in the same first period, K'Andre Miller hit only the seventh team shot on target, scored a double and brought the score to 6: 0, which helped the team repeat the club record almost 24 years ago — in December 1999, the Blueshirts scored 6 goals during one period of the match with the Los Angeles Kings. Before repeating the franchise record in the history of the league, only two goals were missing — in November 1971, the Rangers drove as many as 8 goals in one period against the Calgary Flames.
Up to eight goals per game, the Gallan team in In the end, she didn't make it, but still saved one puck: Chris Kreider scored in the second 20-minute period. This season, the American striker is not as effective as in the last regular season, but he still scored his 32nd goal in the championship. Not saved, “Nashville” even a shake-up in the form of a replacement goalkeeper. After Kevin Lankinen, who missed four out of five shots in 9 minutes, Juuse Saros also missed three goals in his own net. ). But even a 7-0 victory was enough to leave him in a good mood for one day off before the battle with Carolina.