Rangers rally with five unanswered goals in 5-2 win over Ducks

In Anaheim, the visiting New York Rangers fell behind to the Ducks, 2-0 in the first period, and for all the world is looked like a continuation of their tour dreadfulness on Sunday night.

Adam Henrique scored with 51 seconds of game fresh ice used to stake the Ducks to a 1-0 lead.

Henrique collected a double at 15:37 to put an already fragile Rangers club on the skids before the game was 20 minutes old.

Instead, the Rangers scored five unanswered goals in a 5-2 win.

“We worked tonight, the win was hard,” New York coach Peter Laviolette said. “As the game moved on, we were having a hard time climbing back into it, so the fact that we just stuck with it, I thought was a really great job by the guys.”

Based on their play of late, it was nothing short of a miraculous turn about.

Igor Shesterkin make 16 saves to get the win.

The Rangers improved to 29-15-2.

The rally started with a goal from Vincent Trocheck off the power play with 2:02 left in the middle frame frame to trim the deficit to 2-1.

Chris Kreider and Adam Fox assisted on the goal. Fox had a pair of assists in the win.

New York limped in the third period trailing by one. They got a jolt of support in the third when a goal by the Ducks’ Mason McTavish was waved off after a coach’s challenge.

A 3-1 deficit would have been then end of the match for New York.

After the wave off. Will Cuylle scored off a tip in at the front of the net on a shot from Jacob Trouba at the right point for a 2-2 tie.

“I was kind of pinned in the corner and I just tried to fight to get to the front of the net,” Cuylle said. “It was a good shot by ‘Troub’ to get it through, and I just tried to get a stick on it.”

That goal seemed to breath new life into a moribund roster.

Artemi Panarin banged home a power play goal as he was falling to the ice on the left side of the net for a 3-2 lead to New York. It was his 28th strike of the campaign.

“We played an awesome third period,” Panarin said.

Fox and Kreider picked up the assists.

The Ducks dropped to 15-30-1.

At 16:07 of the third, Kreider potted his 22nmd of the season to give the Rangers a little breathing room at 4-2.

“I thought we were controlling most of the game, but that doesn’t matter,” Laviolette said. “You find yourself down one, down two, and it’s just not the start that you wanted.”

Kreider batted in his own rebound off a breakaway chance. He had drifted below the goal line and found the puck in midair and bounced off the goaltender for the goal.

Jimmy Vesey added an empty-net marker with 36 seconds left on the game clock for the 5-2 final count on the scoreboard.

“We definitely could have just laid down there in the third being down and, obviously, we got fortunate with that offsides call there,” Fox said. “The breaks really haven’t gone our way, it seems, and that one went our way, and we got some momentum too.”