2024-03-27 03:15:00
The New York Rangers’ home match against Philadelphia was not the Blueshirts’ most confident game this season, although the teams’ positions in the standings vary greatly. The Rangers are first in the league to book their place in the playoffs and are a comfortable leader in the Eastern Conference, while the Flyers are 18 points behind and desperately fighting to retain their cup ticket. However, the game turned out to be very stubborn, and the nominal favorite fought back throughout almost the entire match.
This may be due to major changes in the defensive line, which was without three main defenders – Jacob Trouba, Ryan Lindgren and Erik Gustafsson, but the start of the match remained entirely in the Flyers’ hands. In the first period, Philadelphia failed to score, but beat the opponent, and by the middle of the second twenty minutes they were leading with a score of 2:0. Rangers came into their own towards the second break when Mika Zibanejad with help Artemy Panarina and Adam Fox realized the numerical advantage and reduced the gap.
This assist became the 100th point of the season for Panarin, who reached this mark for the first time in his career. Artemy became the first player of the club in the last 18 years to reach the hundred: the last one to do this was Jaromir Jagr in the 2005/2006 season.
In the third period, the Rangers were able to first level the score, and then took the lead three times, but still failed to win in regulation time. It went to overtime, which lasted 36 seconds, until Adam Fox, with the support of Vincent Trocheck and the same Panarin, scored the winning goal (6:5 OT).
Panarin recorded 3 assists and ranks fourth in the list of top scorers of the season. Rising to the top three still remains a very difficult task, since there are 10 matches left to play, and Artemy is behind Connor McDavid, which comes third, is 17 points. Nikita Kucherov is 21 points ahead of the scorer leader.
However, personal matters are now clearly taking a back seat. Rangers are finally ready to realize their potential, having been top of the division since October 24, 2023. Well, Artemy has 8 points (5+3) in the last three matches, and he is approaching the start of the playoffs in ideal shape. All that remains is to avoid health troubles in the last games of the regular season and give the best in cup matches, where Panarin had not been able to shine before.
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