Jonathan Quick earns the shutout in Rangers’ 2-0 win against Kraken

By Daimon Eklund

SEATTLE — Alexis Lafreniere and Zac Jones scored arsenic the New York Rangers bushed the Seattle Kraken 2-0 connected Sunday night.

Jonathan Quick stopped 24 shots for his 2nd consecutive shutout and 62nd of his career. Quick has won each 5 of his starts arsenic the backup to Igor Shesterkin.

Philipp Grubauer had 21 saves for the Kraken, who snapped a four-game winning streak.

Lafreniere got the opening extremity with 2:30 near successful the 2nd period. Artemi Panarin’s walk from the near boards recovered Lafreniere astatine the near broadside of the nett down Grubauer for an casual goal. The assistance extended Panarin’s point-scoring streak to 7 games.

Jones added a 2nd extremity astir 3 minutes into the 3rd period.

Takeaways

Rangers: New York has scored archetypal successful 10 of 16 games this season, and are a cleanable 10-0-0 successful those games.

Kraken: Seattle has present been unopen retired 4 times successful 19 games.

Key moment

Jones started the unreserved that led to his extremity successful the antiaircraft zone, past took a walk from Kaapo Kakko successful the near ellipse to decorativeness the sequence. Jones’ changeable snuck done Grubauer’s close shoulder, a miscue successful what was different a beardown crippled for the Seattle goalie.

Key stat

The Rangers are present 6-0-1 all-time against Seattle.

Up next

The Rangers question to Vancouver connected Tuesday for the 2nd of a four-game roadworthy trip. The Kraken reason a six-game location basal connected Wednesday against Nashville.