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Who wants relaxation?
Two days faraway from their Recreation 7 win in Carolina, the Rangers returned to Madison Sq. Backyard final evening and opened the Jap Convention Remaining with a stunningly one-sided 6-2 win over the two-time defending champion Lightning, who had been taking part in for the primary time in 9 days.
It took the Rangers 71 seconds to start cracking the aura of invincibility surrounding Tampa Bay goaltender and reigning Conn Smythe Award winner Andrei Vasilevskiy, who gave up the primary objective of the sport to Chris Kreider (ninth of the postseason) and ended up surrendering twice as many objectives as he did throughout the complete four-game sweep towards the top-seeded Florida Panthers and their top-ranked offense.
Whereas the Rangers embarrassed the all-time playoff performer — Vasilevskiy entered at 8-3 with a 2.23 goals-against-average and .932 save share this postseason — Vezina Trophy favourite Igor Shesterkin made 37 saves. The Rangers obtained a pair of objectives from Filip Chytil, with Frank Vatrano, Artemi Panarin and Mika Zibanejad additionally chipping in.
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