The New York Rangers justify their status as current favorites playoffs of the National Hockey League (NHL) and become one step closer to the Stanley Cup. Peter Laviolette's team, which became the best in the regular season, is still undefeated in the playoffs. The Blueshirts once again beat the Carolina Hurricanes in overtime and left their opponents no room for error.
Shesterkin is phenomenal. Russian goalkeeper sets a powerful record One of the main reasons for the Rangers' success is the confident and reliable play of Igor Shesterkin. The Russian goalkeeper was criticized a lot during the first half of the regular season, but at the right moment, Six reminded everyone why he is one of the best in the world.
In the current Stanley Cup, the Rangers goalkeeper has won seven victories since the start of the tournament. In terms of the duration of the winning streak, Igor took first place in the history of the club, sharing it with Mike Richter, who also won seven consecutive victories in the playoffs in 1994. This figure is a record in Rangers history. The Russian became only the tenth goalkeeper in league history to achieve such a streak, and the first in the last 16 years (in 2008, Marc-Andre Fleury also scored seven wins in a row). Shesterkin also remains one of the most reliable goalies in the entire playoffs. In total, in seven matches of the tournament, he reflected 215 shots out of 230. Six made 45 saves out of this number only in today’s meeting with Carolina, following which the Russian was recognized as the first star.
Panarin scores – the Rangers win Artemi Panarin is the author of four of the Rangers' seven victories in the 2024 Stanley Cup. It was his next goal in today's match with Carolina that became decisive at the very beginning of overtime. It took Khlebushko less than two minutes from the start of the extra period to bring his team closer to the semi-finals of the tournament. The Blueshirts took advantage of a mistake by Hurricanes defenseman Dmitry Orlov, who was unable to clear the puck out of the zone, after which Vincent Trocheck found Panarin on the net with a pass. Artemy beat Peter Kochetkov with a beautiful throw from under his feet and brought the Rangers victory.
In the current playoffs, the Russian super-scorer only scores winning goals. He already has four of these to his credit! This result is the best in the history of the club. Frank Boucher (4 winning goals in the 1927/28 season), Brian Leach (4 winning goals in the 1993/94 season) and the legendary Mark Messier (4 winning goals in the 1993 season) scored the same number for the Blueshirts. /94). Panarin celebrated today's masterpiece goal in his signature style!
Svechnikov did everything to save Carolina. But this was not enough. As in the previous match, Carolina did not deserve to lose today. The Hurricanes played very powerfully and aggressively, time after time creating an edge in front of Igor Shesterkin's goal. However, the team from Raleigh is still let down by the execution of chances. This is especially true for the power play. The Hurricanes' special teams are not producing results in the series with the Rangers. Only twice did Carolina manage to convert the extra one in matches against the New York club. Both times – during the game “6 on 5”.
One of the goals in this format was scored by Andrei Svechnikov. The Russian Hurricanes forward was the best in his team today. Svech did literally everything in his power, but even this was not enough to achieve the desired result.
Andrey was noted not only for his effectiveness, but also for his strength struggle. Today he has six hits to his credit. This is the best figure among all players in the match on both sides. Two power moves out of six performed by the Russian helped Carolina open the scoring. In the same episode, Svechnikov scored an assist. Svechnikov saved the Hurricanes from defeat in regulation time and sent the game into overtime.
But everything is in vain – the Hurricanes are one step away from being eliminated from the playoffs.
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