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  • Vincent Trocheck, Chris Kreider score as Rangers top Coyotes to win home opener behind Igor Shesterkin

    Vincent Trocheck, Chris Kreider score as Rangers top Coyotes to win home opener behind Igor Shesterkin

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    By ALLAN KREDA

    Vincent Trocheck scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period and Igor Shesterkin stopped a penalty shot with under five minutes remaining as the New York Rangers beat the Arizona Coyotes 2-1 on Monday night to win their home opener.

    Chris Kreider also scored for the Rangers, who won for the second time in three games this season.

    Trocheck’s deflection at 8:26 on the power play snapped a 1-all tie and came after Coyotes goalie Connor Ingram made a sensational pad save on Mika Zibanejad’s shot. Adam Fox and Artemi Panarin assisted on Trocheck’s first goal of the season.

    Shesterkin finished with 26 saves. He denied Jason Zucker on a penalty shot at 15:12 of the third to preserve the one-goal lead.

    Clayton Keller scored for Arizona.

    The Coyotes had a 5-on-3 advantage for two minutes after Ryan Lindgren and Alexei Lafreniere were both penalized at 18:41 of the second, but the Rangers were able to hold off Arizona.

    The Coyotes were trying to start 2-0-0 for the first time since 2015-16.

    Ingram made 26 saves for the Coyotes, who open the season with a four-game trip that continues Tuesday against the New York Islanders.

    The Rangers have at least one point in 16 of their last 17 games against the Coyotes. They are 14-1-2 versus Arizona since March 24, 2014, and 12-0-2 at home against the Coyotes since the 2008-09 season.

    Kreider opened the scoring at 14:11 of the first with his fourth goal in three games. Zibanejad and Kappo Kakko assisted. Kreider leads the Rangers with five points.

    New York defensemen have eight points in three games.

    Keller tied the score on a power play at the five-minute mark of the second with assists to rookie Logan Cooley and Nick Schmaltz. The 19-year-old Cooley has three assists in two games.

    Keller ripped a shot that went in off Shesterkin’s glove. The goal was the first this season for Keller, who had two assists in Arizona’s 4-3 shootout win at New Jersey last Friday. Keller has points in all six career games he’s played at Madison Square Garden.

    The Rangers split their first two games on the road, winning 5-1 at Buffalo and losing 5-3 at Columbus.

    MILESTONES

    Kreider needs three goals to tie Andy Bathgate at 272 for fourth place on the Rangers’ career list. The top three are Rod Gilbert (406), Jean Ratelle (336) and Adam Graves (280).

    NOTES: The Rangers are 41-39-14-3 in home openers and 3-1-1 in their last five at Madison Square Garden. … Coyotes defenseman Matt Dumba played his 600th NHL game. … The teams meet again March 30 in Arizona. … The Coyotes scratched defenseman Josh Brown and forward Michael Carcone. … The Rangers scratched forward Jimmy Vesey and defenseman Zac Jones.

    UP NEXT

    Coyotes: At the New York Islanders on Tuesday.

    Rangers: Host the Nashville Predators on Thursday.

     

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  • Power-play goals by Malkin, Rust help Pens stop Rangers, 3-2

    Power-play goals by Malkin, Rust help Pens stop Rangers, 3-2

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    PITTSBURGH — Penguins coach Mike Sullivan thought his team wasn’t playing with emotion throughout the first half of Tuesday night’s game against the New York Rangers.

    Then a red-hot power play came to the rescue.

    Evgeni Malkin and Bryan Rust each scored with the man advantage as Pittsburgh beat the Rangers 3-2 to stop their seven-game winning streak.

    “We weren’t playing that hard and for some odd reason, we weren’t in a game that we should’ve been,” Rust said. “I think getting those power-play goals really kind of gave us a shot in the arm.”

    It was the first meeting between the division rivals since their first-round playoff series last season. New York rallied from a 3-1 series deficit to eliminate Pittsburgh, winning Game 7 at home in overtime.

    Sidney Crosby scored his 18th goal and had an assist for the surging Penguins, who have won eight of nine. Pittsburgh is 15-3-2 in its last 20 games overall.

    Malkin extended his point streak to nine games and tied Sergei Fedorov for the second-most points in NHL history among Russian-born players.

    Tristan Jarry made 26 saves and ran his winning streak to seven. He also has a career-best 13-game point streak, tied for fourth-longest in team history.

    Chris Kreider scored twice for the Rangers, who lost for the third time in 11 games. Igor Shesterkin stopped 21 shots but lost on the road in regulation for the first time this season.

    “I thought we played a great game,” Rangers coach Gerard Gallant said. “We worked hard and competed hard. It’s too bad for those power-play goals we gave up late in the second, but overall we played real good hockey.”

    Kreider scored off the rush 22 seconds in when he sent a puck toward the net from the side wall that deflected past Jarry. Pittsburgh native Vincent Trocheck extended a five-game point streak with his first of two assists on the night.

    New York took control for a while, but couldn’t finish. The Rangers were awarded three power plays and hit three posts in the next period and a half, while the Penguins couldn’t manage a shot for more than 10 minutes.

    “It was a lackluster kind of performance for the first half of the game,” Sullivan said. “Somewhere in the middle of the second period, we started to get some life and we played with some juice. When we got the first power-play goal, it gave us a boost of energy.”

    Malkin tied the game on the power play at 14:24 of the second. He beat Shesterkin with a blocker-side wrist shot from the top of the left circle, as the Penguins scored a power-play goal for the ninth straight game. Pittsburgh has 13 power-play goals in the last nine games.

    Rust scored a second power-play goal in the final 15 seconds of the period. He tipped Pierre-Olivier Joseph’s shot behind Shesterkin to put Pittsburgh in front for good.

    “In the absence of emotion, it’s hard to be at your best in this game,” Sullivan said. “Over the course of an 82-game schedule, sometimes you have those moments. But the first power-play goal got us going and we started to play from there.”

    UP NEXT

    Rangers: Host the New York Islanders on Thursday.

    Penguins: Host the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday.

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