Igor Shesterkin pitched his first shutout of the season, and he did it in type.
The Rangers star netminder made 19 saves, together with eight essential stops within the third interval, to propel his crew to additional time earlier than Chris Kreider scored with lower than a minute remaining within the additional interval to take a 1-0 win over the Flyers on Tuesday night time at Madison Sq. Backyard.
“Huge,” Kreider stated of how vital Shesterkin was to the win. “It’s like outdated hat at this level. He makes actually arduous saves look simple, so after they’re getting these flurries we on the bench most likely don’t notice how good of an opportunity a few of these likelihood is when he makes them look that simple. He’s our greatest participant just about each night time and he definitely was tonight.”
Philadelphia had their finest scoring alternatives of the sport within the closing 20 minutes of regulation, however Shesterkin shut the door on each single one. He flashed the windmill on former Ranger Kevin Hayes. There was a diving save on the put up afterward, as properly. And after giving up a couple of rebounds earlier within the night time, Shesterkin tightened it up and gave the Flyers nothing to work with.
“He’s been massive for us each recreation for the previous nonetheless a few years he’s been right here,” stated Mika Zibanejad, who arrange Kreider’s game-winning objective. “He comes up clutch and that’s what we'd like.”
Vitali Kravtsov can be unavailable for a minimum of per week with an upper-body harm, the Rangers introduced Tuesday, which means the 22-year-old winger can be sidelined via a minimum of the subsequent 4 video games.
This can mark the third stretch of video games Kravtsov has needed to miss as a consequence of harm, after he suffered upper-body accidents within the season opener and within the loss to the Avalanche on Oct. 25, which was simply two video games after he returned from the primary harm.
Kravtsov, who has a outstanding bruise on his nostril, sustained his most up-to-date harm — which is suspected to have one thing to do together with his head — in a race for the puck within the recreation in opposition to the Stars this previous weekend. He was crunched into the boards by Dallas defenseman Jani Hakanpaa and was gradual to rise up earlier than exiting to the locker room.
Requested if he thinks Kravtsov will study to guard himself higher as he positive factors extra NHL expertise, Rangers head coach Gerard Gallant stated he hopes so.
“You bought to play the sport arduous, you bought to play the sport aggressive, however he most likely put himself in a foul scenario the opposite night time,” the coach stated. “I need him going and being first on pucks, we talked about it. Not be just a little smarter, however be just a little safer than that. It’s too dangerous, as a result of he’s performed okay.”
Filip Chytil (upper-body harm) remains to be thought of day-to-day, however the Czech heart has resumed skating.
“I don’t wish to say how shut [he is to returning], I don’t know,” Gallant stated. “It’s day-to-day, that’s all I do know. He’s doing properly. He’s skating arduous, working and on the brink of play.”
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