Jakob Silfverberg's goal with 4:41 remaining in regulation lifted the Ottawa Senators to a 3-2 victory over the Rangers Friday night at Madison Square Garden. The loss snapped the Rangers season-best four-game winning streak.
Silfverberg hammered the rebound of Eric Gryba's hard slap shot that handcuffed Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist into the back of the cage for his fourth goal of the season---and second in as many games against the Blueshirts.
The Senators controlled most of the action against a tiring Rangers team in the latter stages of the third period. Rookie goaltender Robin Lehner finished with 33 saves for Ottawa, including a game-altering stop on a wide-open Derek Stepan in the low slot midway through the final period.
Lundqvist stopped 36 of 39 Ottawa shots.
The Rangers spotted the Senators a two-goal lead midway through the first period, but the red-hot Rick Nash halted the visitors' momentum by scoring 13 seconds after the Senators second goal. And before the first period was over Brad Richards scored to pull the Blueshirts even.
Ottawa's Zack Smith opened the scoring at 6:18 of the first. Ottawa's Patrick Wiercioch snuck a long distance shot past a screened Lundqvist at 10:50 to put the Senators up 2-0.
Nash then skated into the offensive zone and fired a shot between the legs of an Ottawa defenseman and past Lehner at 11:03, and before the first period could come to a close Richards was able to blast a one-timer top far shelf off a Carl Hagelin drop pass on left wing to tie the game 2-2.
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STAT OF THE GAME
With his goal, Rick Nash extended his point streak to five games (six goals, three assists during the streak), including a Rangers’ season-high, five-game goal streak. He has now tallied a point in each of his last nine games (seven goals, seven assists over the span). |
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3. Hagelin |
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