Rangers throttle Penguins in victorious return for Mike Sullivan
PITTSBURGH — The Rangers placed on a particular groups clinic in Mike Sullivan’s return to the Metal Metropolis on Saturday evening.
Behind Adam Fox’s middle-of-it-all, three-point effort, the Blueshirts defeated the Penguins 6-1 to safe their new head coach’s first win over his former staff after Pittsburgh shut them out at Madison Sq. Backyard simply 4 days earlier.
The ability play scored twice on 4 makes an attempt.
The penalty kill efficiently fended off all 4 Penguins energy performs, along with posting a short-handed aim.
Fox, who led all skaters with three factors and added $2,569 to his Deal with ALS fund, had a hand in all of it.
The Rangers broke the sport open within the second interval shortly after Pittsburgh’s Ben Kindel, the eleventh decide on this 12 months’s draft, scored his first NHL aim to make it a 1-1 recreation.
However not earlier than they misplaced defenseman Carson Soucy, who crashed into the boards awkwardly whereas trying a success. He was dominated out for the rest of the competition with an upper-body harm.
Fox registered the primary of a three-goal second interval for the Rangers.
After a powerful shift from the fourth line, Adam Edstrom handed the puck out to Fox for the 2-1 lead on the 6:06 mark.
The Penguins struggled to remain out of the field for a lot of the center body, which allowed the Rangers to attain twice with the person benefit.
Conor Sheary banked the puck in off Will Cuylle’s skate on the primary aim earlier than Fox ripped one from the highest of the zone on the second.
The Rangers whiffed on each their power-play alternatives of their first assembly with the Penguins, however they executed a lot better this time round.
The Rangers continued to push offensively within the third interval, with Edstrom and Taylor Raddysh every chipping in a aim to place the sport out of attain.
The Penguins primarily picked up the place they left off on the Backyard on Tuesday, controlling the puck and the tempo of play by means of the primary 5 minutes of the sport.
When Juuso Parssinen took a seat within the field for tripping, nonetheless, the Rangers managed to outlive the start onslaught and strike first regardless of being short-handed.
Fox backhanded the puck as much as Sam Carrick, who jumped out on a two-on-one rush with Mika Zibanejad earlier than the Swede buried it for the 1-0 lead.
The aim counted as Zibanejad’s first of the season and 251st with the Rangers, which surpassed Mark Messier for the eighth most in franchise historical past.
