In New York, the Rangers scored five straight goals after falling behind 1-0 to the visiting Washington Capitals on Wednesday night.
K’Andre Miller hit for a pair of goals and three points in the win.
“I don’t think I’ve been really playing my best hockey,” Miller said. “Went into the break with just some goals of coming out of the break and doing a little bit more. Luckily the puck found me tonight and was able to capitalize.”
Igor Shesterkin made 26 saves in the win.
The Rangers improved to 24-8-1 off their fourth win in a row.
Mika Zibanejad played in his 800th NHL game, he had two assists in the win.
“It’s 800 more than I thought I was going to play when I was a kid. It’s something you only dream of, even just playing one game, and you get the opportunity to do so for that many years,” Zibanejad said. “It’s always fun to have those milestones, but it makes it more memorable when you win those games too.”
Anthony Mantha was the lone striker for the Caps, his second period goal gave Washington a 1-0 lead off a wrist shot from the left circle.
The Capitals dropped to 17-10-5).
“We just need some 5-on-5 production, and we haven’t gotten that yet this year,” Capitals coach Spencer Carbery said. “So, we’ll continue to work at it, we’ll continue to find answers, we’ll continue to look under every rock to find different ways to capitalize and produce and create offense.”
Miller’s first of the game came at 7:03 of the second period to tie it 1-1, off a backhand in the low slot.
“That was a real big goal,” Rangers coach Peter Laviolette said. “Real nice goal too. There was a lot of small area play right at the blue line. Give and go and he popped into a hole. And really nice plays along the way to get it to him in the slot.”
Artemi Panarin scored off the power play at 12:08 of the second for a 2-1 advantage to the Rangers.
The Rangers’ Braden Schneider took a pass in the high slot and wristed home a marker at 12:48 for a 3-1 lead after two periods of play.
In the third, Miller added his double off a wrist shot from the left side off a feed from Chris Kreider at the blue line, for a 4-1 lead at 6:54.
“I love that,” Laviolette said. “I love that they were jumping into the holes which was great. They were moving the pucks, they were up in the rush. That’s all part of the game nowadays. It was nice to see them get rewarded.”
Adam Fox hit Alexis Lafrenière with a cross ice pass to the right side for a shot and goal at 11:15 for the final count of 5-1.
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Darcy Kuemper made 26 saves in the loss.
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