{"id":202777,"date":"2025-10-10T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202777\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:08:10","slug":"mike-sullivan-gushes-over-igor-shesterkins-latest-gem-in-rangers-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202777\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Sullivan gushes over Igor Shesterkin’s latest gem in Rangers’ win"},"content":{"rendered":"

BUFFALO \u2014 Goalie Igor Shesterkin has been spectacular through the Rangers\u2019 first two games of the season, combining for 65 saves on the 66 shots he\u2019s seen.<\/p>\n

After years of playing against him as head coach of the Penguins in the Metropolitan Division, new Rangers head coach Mike Sullivan was asked about having Shesterkin on his side of the ice now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sure is nice,\u201d Sullivan said with a smile after the Rangers took a 4-0 victory over the Sabres on Thursday night<\/a> at KeyBank Center. \u201cI mean, he\u2019s a world-class goalie. He\u2019s one of the best. You get timely saves like he gives you, he makes it really hard on other teams sometimes. We certainly don\u2019t take that for granted. He was terrific tonight, he was terrific the other night also.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shesterkin stayed in front of all 37 shots the Sabres sent his way Thursday, including 12 in the third period alone. <\/p>\n

Even when the Sabres rattled off three power plays in the middle frame, Shesterkin tracked everything, including Tage Thompson\u2019s dangerous shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always nice having a goalie that you have confidence in,\u201d said Carson Soucy, who scored his second goal as a Ranger in the third period for a 2-0 lead. \u201cWe just try to do our best of giving him clean looks at the pucks. He\u2019s going to make those saves a lot of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"IgorIgor Shesterkin stops the shot of Jason Zucker (17) for one of his 37 saves in the Rangers\u2019 4-0 road win over the Sabres on Oct. 9, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

Conor Sheary quickly separated himself from the rest of the fringe players who came into Rangers training camp three weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Despite having spent the previous season in the AHL with similar players he was competing with for a spot on the Blueshirts roster, Sheary\u2019s veteran presence and relentless hustle easily stood out among the youngsters who were still in middle school when he hoisted his first Stanley Cup in 2016.<\/p>\n

As a result, the Rangers rewarded Sheary with a one-year, two-way deal for the league minimum of $775,000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thrilled,\u201d Sheary told The Post of his reaction to receiving a contract. \u201cI\u2019ve talked about coming in on a PTO [professional tryout contract] and how different that was for me. Coming into a new locker room and trying to prove yourself to teammates and coaches and management. To eventually end up with a deal and be on the Opening Night roster was pretty special for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal was to get back to the NHL and stick here and prove that I can still play. So hopefully throughout this year I can continue to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

There was little doubt Sheary was going to make the Rangers roster out of training camp, especially with spots on the third line almost wide open.<\/p>\n

Not only is Sheary a Sullivan kind of player, after the two won two Stanley Cups together in Pittsburgh, but the undersized wing was fueled by the prospect of proving people wrong throughout the preseason.<\/p>\n

Will Borgen skated in his 300th NHL contest Thursday.<\/p>\n

\"WillWill Borgen gains control of the puck during the Rangers\u2019 road win over the Sabres. Timothy T. Ludwig-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The Rangers will practice in Pittsburgh on Friday before they face the Penguins on Saturday night. <\/p>\n

Sullivan will return to Pittsburgh for the first time since parting ways with the team he led for the past 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO \u2014 Goalie Igor Shesterkin has been spectacular through the Rangers\u2019 first two games of the season, combining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,126050,93125,3617,575,85],"class_list":["post-202777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-igor-shesterkin","tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}