Vincent Trocheck scores in shootout, Igor Shesterkin stops 27 shots as Rangers beat Blue Jackets

Vincent Trocheck scored the lone extremity of the shootout, Igor Shesterkin stopped 27 shots and New York Rangers bushed the Columbus Blue Jackets 1-0 connected Saturday night.

Shesterkin got his 2nd shutout of the play and 17th of his vocation arsenic the Rangers won their 2nd straight. New York improved to 6-1-2 successful January.

Daniil Tarasov had 26 saves and Columbus snapped a six-game winning streak.

In the shootout, Trocheck scored connected the Rangers’ effort successful the 2nd round, and Shesterkin denied tries by Adam Fantilli and Kirill Marchenko connected the Blue Jackets’ last 2 shots to sphere the win.

Both teams clogged the neutral portion astir of the crippled successful an effort to bounds the different to shots from the outside. And the fewer chances either squad got successful adjacent were stuffed by the goalies.

TAKEAWAYS

Blue Jackets: Columbus was expected adjacent the bottommost of the NHL standings this season, but came successful holding the apical chaotic paper spot successful the Eastern Conference. The Blue Jackets kept the Rangers to the outside, making it an casual nighttime for Tarasov.

Rangers: New York was stymied by Columbus’ forecheck, incapable to prolong clip successful the violative zone.

KEY MOMENT

New York close helping Reilly Smith’s backcheck with 53.2 seconds near successful the 2nd play eliminated Columbus’ Mikael Pyythia’s semi-breakaway successful a scoreless game.

KEY STAT

The Blue Jackets had 16 blocked shots.

UP NEXT

Rangers sojourn Montreal connected Sunday, and Blue Jackets play astatine the New York Islanders connected Monday.