A mediocre record stands out for the New York Rangers. They are 23-22-8 and are competitive.
Wednesday night they showed something else.
The Rangers outhit the Boston Bruins, 42-24, and responded to chirping form the Bruins bench by Tony DeAngelo chirping back after potting what would be the deciding goal in a seven-round shootout.
Tony DeAngelo chirped back at Bruins after scoring deciding goal in shootout -file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Know what? I’ll take it. Playing with an edge and not not quite out of the play off run? Get a little nasty.
DeAngelo‘s goal completed a come back by the Rangers who surrendered three goals in the middle frame and trailed 3-1 heading to the final period.
“You have to remember the Bruins are a good team, a real good team,” DeAngelo said. “They had a good push in the second. I thought we controlled the first and we came out and had a real strong third. It was important for us to get a big comeback win at home.”
Mika Zibanejad scored in the first period to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead.
“It’s extra nice when you come back from a 3-1 deficit and win,” Zibanejad said. “We’ll take every win right now. We’re trying to work hard, and I think we have been for the past couple of weeks here. We just have to keep going.”
Alexandar Georgiev made 27 saves for the win.
“It was big for us. Obviously we blew the lead last game, so to come back and pick up two points coming back down two goals in the third was big for us,” Georgiev said after the win.
Danton Heinen, David Pastrnak and Patrice Bergeron scored in the second period to seemingly take the Rangers out of the game.
“We felt confident going into the third,” Heinen said. “Unfortunately, we let it slip away.”
The Rangers rallied in the third period off goals from Kevin Hayes and Filip Chytil.
“You just feel after the second there wasn’t a lot of emotion in between the periods,” Rangers head coach David Quinn said. “All we talked about was, listen, we have to move past that. We can’t let a bad second period get in the way of the third period. Let’s go play some hockey and see what happens.”
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Jaroslav Halak made 36 saves in the loss.
“It’s very upsetting. It’s unacceptable,” Bergeron said after the loss. “Especially up by two heading into the third on the road, you have to play a solid third and obviously we didn’t do that. We let the game slip in the third, that’s where it was played out. That game shouldn’t be going into overtime.”
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