Vilified as a questionable signing ahead of the season, Michael Grabner has become the go-to goal scorer for the New York Rangers.
On Sunday afternoon, he netted a third period goal and added an assist in the Rangers’ 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames.
Chris Kreider scored on writers from the circle in the third period – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
“There’s not much he can’t do,” J.T. Miller said. “For him to come up with the game-winner and then make a big block, it’s pretty fitting for him.”
Henrik Lundqvist made 29 saves to get the win.
“Obviously there’s no better feeling than to win in front of your own fans,” Lundqvist said. “They never gave up and they’re a good team. They’ve been winning lately here and have a lot of confidence, but we came out in the third and it looked like we made up our mind that we wanted these two points.”
Rick Nash, Chris Kreider and Jesper Fast all scored for New York.
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Brian Elliott made 28 saves in the loss.
“They sting and obviously we need points, but this was a really good hockey game today,” Flames coach Glen Gulutzan said. “It could have went either way and I think we deserved to get some points out of this building.”
Troy Brouwer, Dougie Hamilton and Matthew Tkachuk scored for the Flames who dropped to 27-25-3.
“We want to get a win in any fashion and start this homestand off on the right foot. [We wanted to] back up that [2-1 overtime] road win [against the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday] where we played pretty well defensively. It was good to see us find a way,” the Rangers’ Ryan McDonagh said of the win after a 1-5-0 record on home ice.
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