Head coach Gerard Gallant had called for the Rangers to tighten things up defensively, but defense was inadvertently the primary focus Monday night against the Panthers.
It had to be considering how Florida had them on their heels for an extended period of time in each period, but the Blueshirts still managed to come away with a 6-2 win despite being outplayed and outshot for most of the night.
That has been missing from the Rangers’ game lately, but it was the only way they were going to send the Panthers back to Florida with their tails between their legs. Igor Shesterkin’s 33-save performance certainly helped, as well. The Panthers, who lost Sam Bennett at the end of the second period, when his skate got tangled up with Filip Chytil and he fell into the boards awkwardly, pulled goalie Alex Lyons with over nine minutes remaining in regulation to try and spark a rally. The six-on-five edge worked once, and Aleksander Barkov made it happen after he flipped the puck over Shesterkin to cut the home team’s lead to three goals.
The Rangers created some traffic in front of the Panthers net and Vesey jammed the puck home for the 3-1 score at 15:03.
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