Will Cuylle scores 2 in 3rd period as Rangers rally to beat Blue Jackets

By NICOLE KRAFT

COLUMBUS — Will Cuylle scored doubly successful the 3rd play and the New York Rangers rallied to bushed the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 connected Saturday night.

Mika Zibanejad had a extremity and an assist, Arthur Kaliyev besides scored, and Vincent Trocheck had 2 assists to assistance the Rangers triumph for the 3rd clip successful 4 games. Jonathan Quick made 22 saves.

Kent Johnson, Justin Danforth, and James van Riemsdyk scored for Columbus successful its 4th consecutive loss, including the past 2 astatine home. Elvis Merzlikins made 36 saves and the Blue Jackets remained 1 constituent down Detroit for the last Eastern Conference wild-card spot.

Cuylle tied the people 1:57 into the 3rd period, and past got the go-ahead people with 1:39 remaining.

TAKEAWAYS

Rangers: New York looked poised to predominate aft taking a 1-0 pb conscionable 1:56 into the archetypal play connected Kaliyev’s goal, but doubly fell down earlier rallying for the triumph successful the third.

Blue Jackets: Columbus came retired flat-footed and fell down aboriginal earlier manager Dean Evason gave the squad a wake-up telephone during the archetypal media timeout. The Blue Jackets responded by taking the pb successful some the archetypal and 2nd periods but failed to adjacent retired the victory.

KEY MOMENT

Cuylle corralled the escaped puck connected the close broadside connected a clearing effort by the Blue Jackets, skated astir to the near broadside and turned and fired the puck done postulation past Merzlikins to necktie it aboriginal successful the 3rd period.

KEY STAT

Zach Werenski’s assistance connected Johnson’s extremity extended his location constituent streak to 21 games, the fifth-longest by a defenseman successful NHL past and the third-longest by an American-born player. He continues to widen the Blue Jackets’ single-season grounds for points by a defenseman (59) and is present conscionable 4 assists down Rick Nash (258) for the team’s all-time lead.

UP NEXT

Both teams caput into the 4 Nations Face-off break. Rangers sojourn Buffalo connected Feb. 22, and Blue Jackets big Chicago.