Artemi Panarin and Alexis Lafreniere score, Igor Shesterkin makes 40 saves as Rangers beat Senators 2-1

By ALLAN KREDA

Artemi Panarin and Alexis Lafreniere scored, Igor Shesterkin stopped 40 shots and the New York Rangers bushed the Ottawa Senators 2-1 connected Friday night.

Panarin scored his team-best seventh extremity 3:03 into the game, beating Senators goalie Linus Ullmark with a debased shot. Alexis Lafreniere made it 2-0 connected the powerfulness play astatine 2:56 of the 3rd with his 5th goal.

Shesterkin kept the Senators astatine bay until Adam Gaudette scored with 7:32 remaining successful the third. Gaudette one-timed a cross-ice walk from Brady Tkachuk for his 5th extremity of the season.

Shesterkin improved to 5-2-1 arsenic the Rangers rebounded from Tuesday’s 5-3 nonaccomplishment astatine Washington, which was lone New York’s 2nd regularisation nonaccomplishment this season.

Ullmark made 16 saves for the Senators.

TAKEAWAYS

Rangers: The Rangers improved to 3-1-1 astatine home. They are 4-1-0 connected the road.

Senators: Ottawa fell to 1-4-0 connected the road. The Senators are 4-1-0 astatine home.

KEY MOMENT

Shesterkin denied high-scoring guardant Claude Giroux with a spectacular point-blank mitt prevention with 2:48 near successful the 2nd period. He besides stopped Josh Norris doubly during a third-period powerfulness play and made a sliding pad prevention connected defenseman Nick Jensen with conscionable implicit 4 minutes near successful the third.

KEY STATS

Panarin has points successful 9 of 10 games and leads the Rangers with 16 points. The 33-year-old Russian guardant led the Rangers with 120 points — including a career-best 49 goals — past season.

UP NEXT

Senators big Seattle connected Saturday, and the Rangers big the New York Islanders connected Sunday.