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Zibanejad notched his second career multi-goal
postseason game and also added an assist for his fourth career
three-point playoff game.
"As an offensive guy, you want to get involved. When you score a
goal to contribute and help your team to a win, that's a good
feeling," Zibanejad said. "It's one game. We just got to keep
going."
Former Hurricane Vincent Trocheck scored for the fourth straight
game after getting three goals in New York's four-game sweep of
the Washington Capitals in the first round.
Artemi Panarin tallied what wound up being the game-winning goal
in the third period and Chris Kreider contributed two assists
for the Rangers, who netted four goals for the fourth time this
postseason.
Jaccob Slavin and Martin Necas scored for the Hurricanes, who
are 0-4 all-time in the playoffs at Madison Square Garden. Seth
Jarvis scored with an extra attacker with 1:45 left.
New York goaltender Igor Shesterkin made 22 saves and preserved
the one-goal lead with a sprawling stop against Andrei
Svechnikov with one minute left in the game.
Carolina nearly had a golden chance to tie things up, getting a
power play with 41 seconds left when Trocheck was called for
delay of game, but a few seconds later, Svechnikov took a
tripping penalty.
Carolina goalie Frederik Andersen stopped 19 shots after an
injury kept him from these teams' second-round series in 2022.
The Rangers went ahead 2:46 into the game when Zibanejad parked
himself in the slot and awaited a pass. Jack Roslovic circled
the net untouched and found an open Zibanejad, who ripped a shot
over Andersen.
Carolina tied it 62 seconds later on a fluky bounce. Sebastian
Aho kept the puck alive deep in the offensive zone, and Slavin's
shot from the right point sailed through traffic and deflected
off New York winger Alexis Lafreniere's stick.
Zibanejad scored his second goal nine seconds after Carolina's
Tony DeAngelo was called for a roughing penalty. Trocheck moved
the puck to Kreider in front of the net, and following a no-look
pass by Kreider, Zibanejad finished off a one-timer from the
bottom of the left circle while falling to one knee.
Trocheck made it 3-1 14 seconds after a cross-checking penalty
by Evgeny Kuznetsov. Trocheck waited in the middle of the
crease, took a cross-ice feed from Zibanejad and backhanded the
puck by Andersen at 16:28 of the first.
"They did a nice job of executing two real nice plays," DeAngelo
said of New York's power-play markers. "I thought we did a
pretty good job on our power play. It just didn't go in the net.
That's why you play seven games."
Following a neutral-zone turnover by New York's Barclay Goodrow,
Necas made it 3-2 2:48 into the third by speeding past Rangers
defensemen Ryan Lindgren and Adam Fox and finishing off a
partial breakaway.
Panarin answered Necas' goal by getting a shot from the left
circle to trickle under Andersen with 11:39 left.
About a minute after Carolina pulled Andersen, Jarvis scored
from the edge of the right side of the crease over a
sprawled-out Shesterkin.
"A week out from the last time we played. I thought the start
was really good and I thought we followed that through right
through the game," Rangers coach Peter Laviolette said. "I
thought it was pretty consistent."
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