In New York, if you had a bet on the Rangers and Boston Bruins, you certainly took the Bruins. After all, the Bruins are one of the best teams in the NHL so far this season, and the Rangers, well, you know.
What you most likely didn’t have was the Rangers taking the game to extra time.
Oh, New York lost, outcoached and outworked, but ti took a goal from Brad Marchand 36 seconds into extra time to give the Bruins a 3-2 win.
“We didn’t play very well tonight, we just have that attitude where we pick each other up,” Marchand said. “We don’t get down on one another. We’re always trying to help each other out. We get through things together. That’s the mentality we’ve always had in this room.”
Tuukka Rask made 33 saves for the win.
“It’s not always going to be pretty,” Rask said. “People have to step up. Today that’s what we did.”
The ineptness of the Rangers’ offense was on full display. Their two goals came from the fourth line with Julien Gauthier, his first NHL goal,and Kevin Rooney
Chris Wagner and Anders Bjork scored for the Bruins in regulation.
“We had the option to challenge the original play for a missed stoppage,” Boston head coach Bruce Cassidy said. “There’s some factors that go into that. Does it go directly to their player or not? Does it hit one of our players? It has to be above his shoulder, not the crossbar. So, there’s some different things to do. We went back and forth on it. I made the call at the end, let’s just play.”
Alexandar Georgiev made 29 saves in the loss.
“I thought [Georgiev] was really good laterally reading plays, square to the puck,” Rangers coach David Quinn said. “The second period we were fortunate to get out of there 1-1. He was on huge on the penalty kill in the second period. They had some Grade A bell ringers that he made some great side-to-side saves on.”
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