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The Rangers celebrate a goal during their Nov. 24 win against the Blues. Jason Szenes for the NY Post<\/p>\nThe Rangers overcame the noise. <\/p>\n
Then, the silence.<\/p>\n
A day which opened with new head coach Mike Sullivan attributing some of the team\u2019s early-season struggles to the \u201cnoise\u201d created by the media, and then featured the league\u2019s worst home team quieting the home crowd while being held scoreless for nearly 30 minutes, eventually ended with the Rangers erasing an early deficit and their season-worst four-game losing streak by claiming a 3-2 win over the Blues on Monday at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n
After picking up their second home win of the season, the Rangers (11-11-2) next head to Carolina to face the Eastern Conference-leading Hurricanes on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Entering the game ranked 30th in the NHL in scoring \u2014 and having been outshot 137-79 during their losing streak \u2014 the Rangers scored more than one goal for just the third time in 10 home games, scoring three five-on-five goals after producing five in the previous five games.<\/p>\n
It was another typical start at the Garden for the Rangers, who recorded just two shots on goal in the game\u2019s first eight minutes.<\/p>\n
The Blues nearly jumped in front after Brayden Schenn got behind Adam Fox and Vladislav Gavrikov, but Igor Shesterkin (20 saves) turned away the breakaway. <\/p>\n
The Rangers celebrate a goal during their Nov. 24 win against the Blues. Jason Szenes for the NY Post<\/p>\n
The Rangers had fired twice as many shots (8-4) when the Blues uncorked the first landing blow, coming off a Dylan Holloway rocket wrister over Shesterkin\u2019s glove, putting St. Louis up 1-0 with 2:24 left in the first period.<\/p>\n
The second period opened with silence, growing more awkward by the minute. <\/p>\n
The organist\u2019s efforts to awaken the crowd were futile. <\/p>\n
They had seen this show before.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could be [pressing],\u201d Sullivan said before the game, attempting to explain the team\u2019s offensive struggles. \u201cThere\u2019s also a lot of noise around it. [The media] make[s] a lot of noise around it \u2026 It\u2019s amazing how when you chase offense you don\u2019t get as much. When you play the game the right way, you create offense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through the first nine minutes of the second period, the Rangers had only put another two shots on net, but they finally broke through when Jonny Brodzinski delivered a backhand feed to a streaking Vincent Trocheck, who evened the game with 9:54 left in the second period. <\/p>\n
It was Trocheck\u2019s fourth goal of the season and second in the past four games. <\/p>\n
Fox was credited with his team-best 17th assist.<\/p>\n
St. Louis earned the game\u2019s first power play two-plus minutes later, when Braden Schneider was whistled for high-sticking, but the Rangers killed the penalty. <\/p>\n
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Igor Shesterkin (r.) watches the puck during the Rangers\u2019 Nov. 25 win over the Blues. Jason Szenes for the NY Post<\/p>\n
The Blues followed with a flurry of close calls, forcing Shesterkin to don a cape and Fox to clear a loose puck in the crease.<\/p>\n
Just 40 seconds into the third period, Vladislav Gavrikov \u2014 who shook off a second-period slap shot to the face that forced a stoppage of play \u2014 fired a shot to the net, which was deflected in by Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re for his fifth goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Adam Edstrom added insurance with his second goal of the season, finishing Gavrikov\u2019s feed from behind the net with 11:04 remaining. <\/p>\n
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Call-up Brett Berard was called for a high-sticking double-minor with 5:51 to play. <\/p>\n
The Rangers survived the four-minute disadvantage \u2014 including 1:10 of 6-on-4 play \u2014 but surrendered a goal to Pavel Buchnevich with 1:15 remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers overcame the noise. Then, the silence. A day which opened with new head coach Mike Sullivan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[115849,64,63,3617,575,85,3935,58370],"class_list":["post-306930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alexis-lafreniere","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-vincent-trocheck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306930","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=306930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}