Mika Zibanejad, Jimmy Vesey and Vincent Trocheck score in 2nd period as Rangers beat Sharks

By ALLAN KREDA

Mika Zibanejad, Jimmy Vesey and Vincent Trocheck each scored successful the 2nd play and the New York Rangers bushed the San Jose Sharks 3-2 connected Thursday night.

Igor Shesterkin made 25 saves arsenic the Rangers rebounded from Tuesday’s 6-3 nonaccomplishment to league-best Winnipeg and got their 4th triumph successful six games.

Timothy Liljegren and Fabian Zetterlund scored for the Sharks, who person mislaid 4 of six (2-3-1). Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 32 shots.

Liljegren was credited with the game’s archetypal extremity astatine 2:51 of the opening play erstwhile the puck caromed disconnected respective players successful beforehand of Shesterkin and into the net.

Zibanejad tied it with 9:19 near successful the mediate period. Vesey enactment the Rangers up with 6:45 near successful the period, and Trocheck made it 3-1 with 3:39 to go..

Zetterlund closed the spread with a power-play successful the last minute.

TAKEAWAYS

Sharks: Barclay Goodrow, who played 3 seasons with the Rangers and scored six playoff goals past spring, received an ovation during a first-period stoppage erstwhile helium was shown connected the elephantine surface supra halfway ice.

Rangers: Forward Filip Chytil near the crippled during the 2nd play aft colliding with teammate K’Andre Miller. Chytil, who has a past of suspected concussions, headed to the dressing room. He returned for 1 displacement successful the 2nd but did not play successful the third.

KEY MOMENT

Shesterkin denied Goodrow astatine 9:04 of the 2nd connected a close-in changeable from the faceoff ellipse to support it a one-goal game. He stopped Goodrow again point-blank with 7 minutes near successful the third.

KEY STATS

Rangers guardant Artemi Panarin had an assistance connected Trocheck’s goal, giving him a team-leading 23 points (10 goals, 13 assists). He has a constituent successful 14 of New York’s 15 games this season.

UP NEXT

Sharks sojourn Pittsburgh connected Saturday to implicit a four-game trip, and Rangers sojourn Seattle connected Sunday to statesman a four-game trip.