NEW YORK (AP) — Mika Zibanejad briefly left Sunday’s recreation with an harm and the New York Rangers’ roster points grew to become much more problematic.
However, Zibanejad returned later and scored a objective to assist the Rangers finish a four-game skid with a 5-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings.
The group’s No. 1 heart left late within the second interval after blocking Drew Doughty’s shot on an influence play. He returned for the beginning of the third interval.
Vincent Trocheck had two objectives and an help, Artemi Panarin had a objective and an help, Alexis Lafreniere additionally scored and Adam Fox had two assists for New York. Igor Shesterkin made 26 saves.
“Him coming back in the third was definitely a relief,” Trocheck mentioned of Zibanejad.
“It’s a big one for us, just the way we’ve been playing the last couple of games, going on a little slide there,” Trocheck mentioned. “We made sure we were able to bring it back.”
Rangers defenseman Ok’Andre Miller was given a match penalty and ejected after spitting at Doughty late within the first interval, leaving the Rangers with simply 5 defensemen the rest of the sport.
“The kid feels bad about it,” Rangers coach Gerard Gallant mentioned of Miller. “He said it was an accident.”
“It’s unfortunate,” Doughty mentioned. “Whether or not he meant to do it, I have no idea. It’s pretty big loogie on my face, so I was pretty (miffed).”
Also, Rangers defenseman Ryan Lindgren was not within the lineup a day after being injured on a success by Capitals ahead T.J. Oshie within the first interval of Saturday’s loss. He is listed as daily.
Viktor Arvidsson had a power-play objective late within the second interval, Matt Roy scored early within the third and Phillip Danault had two assists for Los Angeles.
Jonathan Quick stopped 4 of seven pictures for the Kings earlier than being pulled after Trocheck’s second objective late within the second interval. He was changed by Pheonix Copley, who had 12 saves. The Kings are 1-2-1 up to now on their five-game street journey.
“When you play the cream of the crop in this league, you can’t have off nights,” Kings coach Todd McLellan mentioned.
Shesterkin had a bounce-back recreation a day after he was pulled after permitting 5 objectives on 22 pictures in a 6-3 loss at Washington.
“The game they played yesterday set them up for the game they played tonight,” McLellan mentioned.
The Rangers made it 3-0 early within the second interval on two objectives by Trocheck simply 1:35 aside. Trocheck’s shot deflected off Roy’s stick at 2:02 and his wrister at 3:37 beat Quick for his nineteenth objective of the season.
The Kings made it 3-2 early within the third interval on Roy’s ninth objective at 1:27. But Panarin answered for the Rangers simply 44 seconds later for his nineteenth. Zibanejad added his thirty first on the ability play at 5:26 to place the Rangers in management.
The Kings received on the board on Arvidsson’s 18th objective with 1:48 left within the second as he batted the puck out of the air and previous Shesterkin.
The Rangers opened the scoring within the first interval as they took benefit of a turnover within the Kings’ zone. Filip Chytil received the unfastened puck to Lafreniere on the left facet of the online. He he despatched a cross to Kaapo Kakko, who despatched a cross again and Lafreniere’s shot deflected off Quick for his 11th of the season 14 minutes into the sport.
“We kept it simple. It was a good team effort from everyone.” Rangers defenseman Jacob Trouba mentioned.
The Kings entered Sunday in a good race for first place within the Pacific Division. The Kings path division-leading Vegas by two factors and lead third-place Edmonton by two factors.
NOTES
Lafreniere has factors in seven of his previous 11 video games (5 objectives, two assists) and 10 of his previous 15 video games (six objectives, 5 assists). … The Rangers recalled C Ryan Carpenter from Hartford of the AHL and despatched F Jake Leschyshyn to the Wolf Pack.
UP NEXT
Kings: At Winnipeg on Tuesday night time to complete a five-game street journey.
Rangers: At Philadelphia on Wednesday night time.
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