In New York, the Dallas Stars blew a 2-0 lead to the New York Rangers on Thursday night, but bounced back on Miro Heiskanen‘s goal in extra time for a 3-2 win.
“We got the puck on the blue line and [Benn] made a great pass for me,” Heiskanen said. “I was looking if it was a 2-on-1 or breakaway. I just tried to skate hard and go high blocker and it went in. It’s good.”
The Rangers were coming off a typical listless game in Washington, DC, but put a better effort on the cie on Thursday.
Braden Holtby surrendered both Rangers goals and 25 saves before leaving the game in the third period for an apparent injury.
Anton Khudobin made six saves in relief of Holtby for the win.
Jacob Peterson and Radek Faksa scored for the Stars in regulation for the 2-0 lead.
“He (Peterson) mentioned it to us in the second period and we tried to get some fluids into him after the second period,” Stars coach Rick Bowness said of Holtby’s dehydration. “As soon as he came off the ice he went on an IV. We’ll see how he is tomorrow.”
The Rangers responded, finally, with a shorthanded goal from Adam and an even strength goal from Chris Kreider, his second of the season.
“They score that second goal and you’re saying, ‘Here we go again,'” Rangers head coach Gerard Gallant said. “But, no, we bounced back. I knew we weren’t going to collapse tonight in front of our fans in the building. We got our noses dirty a little bit in the offensive zone, did some good things and got back in the hockey game.”
Igor Shesterkin made 23 saves in the loss.
“We started playing more with the puck,” Kreider said. “We cycled. We were coming at them in waves. We were doing a good job of not turning pucks over, getting pucks to the net quickly, supporting each other, moving our feet. We have to do that for a full 60.”
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