{"id":526609,"date":"2026-03-10T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526609\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:39:07","slug":"zibanejad-scores-twice-rangers-cruise-past-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526609\/","title":{"rendered":"Zibanejad scores twice, Rangers cruise past Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matvei Michkov<\/a> and Sean Couturier<\/a> each scored for Philadelphia (29-23-11), which had won four of its previous five games. Dan Vladar<\/a> allowed six goals on 24 shots before being removed after two periods. Samuel Ersson<\/a>\u00a0stopped all three shots he faced in the third period.<\/p>\n

“I think mentally we weren’t sharp,” Couturier said. “We gave up a lot of quality chances and they capitalized on us.”<\/p>\n

The Rangers’ top line of Zibanejad, Perreault and Lafreniere created several of those chances. They combined for seven points (four goals, three assists) in their fourth game together.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s complementary skill sets in the sense that they’re a little bit different in what they bring, although I think the common denominator is they all have pretty good offensive instincts,” Sullivan said. “Mika is a real cerebral player, and he plays on both sides of the puck so he’s very conscientious. … Mika and ‘Laf’ are strong on pucks in the offensive zone, their ability to protect pucks and hang on to pucks, and I think Gabe is getting better in that regard.”<\/p>\n

Perreault displayed his physicality and play-making ability Monday.<\/p>\n

His strong forecheck on Flyers defenseman Jamie Drysdale<\/a>\u00a0created a turnover behind the Philadelphia net, which led to Zibanejad’s goal at 13:07 of the first period that gave New York a 2-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then the 20-year-old rookie made a blind backhand pass through the crease to set up Zibanejad’s power-play goal that made it 5-1 at 18:40 of the second period.<\/p>\n

“The skill and stuff, it’s been pretty evident for everyone,” Zibanejad said. “But just the way he sees the ice, the way he makes plays. The power-play goal is a perfect example of the way he makes a play. … The more he plays, the more confident he gets.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matvei Michkov and Sean Couturier each scored for Philadelphia (29-23-11), which had won four of its previous five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-526609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}