Defenseman K’Andre Miller scored the go-ahead extremity and Jonathan Quick stopped 34 shots to get his 400th vocation triumph arsenic the New York Rangers bushed the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 connected Sunday night.
Artemi Panarin and Mika Zibanejad each had a extremity and 2 assists, Alexis Lafreniere besides scored and J.T. Miller had 2 assists successful his archetypal location crippled since returning to the Rangers successful a commercialized with Vancouver. New York snapped a three-game losing streak.
Quick had 13 saves successful the archetypal period, 14 successful the 2nd and 7 successful the 3rd go the archetypal U.S.-born goalie to scope the 400-win mark.
Jack Eichel scored 2 goals for Vegas, which mislaid its 3rd straight. Adin Hill had 24 saves.
Zibanejad — playing his 900th NHL crippled — tied the people 2-2 connected the powerfulness play astatine 5:04 of the 3rd with his 10th goal.
K’Andre Miller whipped the puck past Hill with 8:27 near to springiness New York its archetypal lead, and Panarin added a power-play extremity with 1:41 to headdress New York’s three-goal play and seal the win.
Eichlel opened the scoring with a power-play extremity with 19 seconds remaining successful the archetypal period.
Lafreniere tied it astatine 1:18 of the 2nd with his 14th goal, but Eichel enactment the Golden Knights backmost up with his 18th astatine 9:16.
Takeaways
Rangers: New York improved to 13-11-2 astatine location aft going 30-11-0 past play astatine Madison Square Garden.
Golden Knights: Vegas fell to 12-10-3 connected the road.
Key moment
Zibanejad’s tying extremity aboriginal successful the 3rd was his conscionable his 2nd extremity since Jan. 4.
Key stats
Quick became the 15th goaltender successful NHL past to scope 400 wins. Three of the different 14 played for the Rangers: Henrik Lundqvist, Terry Sawchuk, and Jacques Plante.
Up Next
Golden Knights sojourn the New York Islanders connected Tuesday, and Rangers big Boston connected Wednesday.
By Allan Kreda