In New York, Jonathan Quick started his second straight game for the Rangers, and made 25 saves in a 5-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday.
The Rangers hot for four goals in the middle frame to take a 5-0 into the third.
A lapse ni the Rangers’Â defensive scheme led to the Red Wings scoring two quick goals to trim the deficit to 5-2, and make the Garden faithful nervous.
The Rangers improved to 9-2-1.
In the third, Detroit’s Michael Rasmussen hit for a goal at 7:55 to trim the deficit to 5-1, and Klim Kostin scored to make it a bit tighter at 5-2, at 8:15.of the third.
Andrew Copp Copp struck at 13:49Â to get Detroit within 5-3, but that was close as they would get.
“We’ve got to figure out a way to score the first goal one of these games,” Copp said. “I don’t think that we weren’t ready to play, but clearly we’re missing something.”
Detroit dropped to 7-5-1.
“The start,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said. “Obviously, special teams will ultimately be the difference, but it was just the start. They got to the more simple game quick. They established a forecheck. They put pucks on net. You just build momentum off getting pucks on net, foot races. We weren’t able to do that.”
Vincent Trocheck, who hit for a double in the win, gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead with 1:40 gone in the game.
The game stayed that way until the middle frame when the Ranges buried four unanswered goals in the stanza,
In the second, Chris Kreider tipped n a shot from the blue line, on the power play, for a 2-0 lead to the Rangers to start the outburst.
Just 44 seconds later, Trocheck hit for his double, also off the power play, for a 3-0 lead New York.
“The power play has been good,” Trocheck said. “We’re working hard at it. I think that’s why we’ve been so successful. We’re making sure we’re keeping it simple.”
The Rangers were 2-for-3 on the power play.
“We were kind of bailed out by a really hot power play for a while there,” Copp said. “We’ve got to find consistency in our 5-on-5 and overall intensity. Not that we weren’t intense tonight, but we definitely weren’t as intense as we were in the Boston game.”
Artemi Panarin ballooned the lead to 4-0 at 11:21 off a pass from Alexis Lafreniere.
Panarin’s goal gives him points in all 12 Rangers games to start the season.
“He grabbed the puck and he attacked downhill, he attacked the game,” New York coach Peter Laviolette said of Panarin. “I find when he’s moving and he’s attacking, he becomes really dangerous. He has a skill set that’s elite, and with that speed and with that downhill approach through the neutral zone and toward their net, that’s dangerous.”
Panarin has 20 points in his streak on seven goals.
“I’m just happy to be here right now,” Panarin said. “We’re feeling great on the team.”
At 14:10 of the middle frame, Will Cuylle deflected shot from Zach Jones on the left circle for the fourth strike of the period, and 5-0 lead after 40 minutes.
Detroit went scoreless on six power play chances.
“The penalty kill put a lot more pressure up ice, through the neutral zone and most definitely in zone, which I think is a reflection of the 5-on-5 play from a defensive standpoint,” Laviolette said.
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Ville Husso made 27 saves in the loss, he also picked up an assist.
“You can go back my last 10 press conferences, just cut, paste what I said,” Lalonde said. “It’s the same thing. You watch hockey, every single game it’s the team that has the simple game to start. … It’s a race for that simple game to start and tonight the Rangers did it.”
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