Igor Shesterkin makes 35 saves as surging Rangers rout Flyers 6-1

Defenseman K’Andre Miller had a extremity and an assistance and Igor Shesterkin made 35 saves arsenic the surging New York Rangers routed the Philadelphia Flyers 6-1 connected Thursday night.

Braden Schneider, Adam Edstrom, Filip Chytil, Adam Fox and Reilly Smith besides scored for the Rangers, who are 8-1-3 since Jan. 2. New York won lone 3 times successful December.

Owen Tippett scored for the Flyers, who had their three-game winning streak snapped.

After Tippett scored his 14th extremity 1:25 into the game, Schneider tied it with his 3rd astatine the nine-minute people of the first.

Edstrom past bushed Flyers netminder Samuel Ersson for his 5th to enactment New York up 2-1 astatine 10:24.

Miller extended the pb successful the 2nd play nwith his 3rd extremity of the play and archetypal since Dec. 8. Assists went to defenseman Will Borgen and Artemi Panarin, who leads the Rangers with 50 points, including 20 goals.

Chytil made it 4-1 aboriginal successful the third.

Fox added a short-handed empty-netter precocious successful the 3rd earlier Smith scored connected the powerfulness play.

Ersson made 31 saves for the Flyers, who entered having won 5 of six.

Takeaways
Rangers: Shesterkin is 6-0-1 successful his past 7 starts, allowing 2 oregon less goals successful 5 of those.

Flyers: Philadelphia is 12-11-4 against Eastern Conference teams this season, including a 5-6-1 grounds against the Metropolitan Division.

Key moment
Edstrom’s extremity midway done the archetypal enactment the Rangers up to stay. The 24-year-old Swedish guardant has 3 goals successful his past 7 games and has been effectual connected a enactment with Matt Rempe and halfway Sam Carrick.

Key stats
All six Rangers defensemen — Miller, Schneider, Borgen, Urho Vaakanainen, Fox and Ryan Lindgren — registered points.

Up next
Rangers: Host Colorado connected Sunday.

Flyers: Visit the New York Islanders connected Friday night.