{"id":565668,"date":"2026-03-28T02:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565668\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:37:08","slug":"rookies-lead-way-as-rangers-beat-blackhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565668\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookies lead way as Rangers beat Blackhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Jonny Brodzinski scored twice, Adam Sykora scored his first goal and Dylan Garand made 27 saves for his first NHL win as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/new-york-rangers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-rangers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Rangers<\/a> downed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/chicago-blackhawks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"chicago-blackhawks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> 6-1 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>J.T. Miller, Matthew Robertson and Alexis Lafreniere also scored as the Rangers snapped a six-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Garand, who made his debut Sunday at home against Winnipeg, a 3-2 shootout loss, allowed only a goal by Chicago\u2019s Nick Lardis late in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago has lost four of its last five.<\/p>\n<p>Lardis finished off a passing play with Tyler Bertuzzi and Alex Vlasic late in the first. But Miller tied it less than a minute later with his 15th goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Sykora, who debuted in Wednesday\u2019s 4-3 loss at Toronto, beat Blackhawks goaltender Arvid Soderblom cleanly at 8:20 of the second. The 21-year-old Sykora was a second-round pick in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Brodzinski scored 16:07 into the second period, then added his second of the game with 4 minutes left.<\/p>\n<p>The victory was just New York&#8217;s fifth home win in regulation. New York is 10-18-7 at the Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman Drew Fortescue also made his Rangers debut. The 20-year-old defenseman \u2014 a third-round pick in 2023 \u2014 assisted on Brodzinski&#8217;s second goal.<\/p>\n<p>Blackhawks: Visit the New Jersey Devils on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers: Host the Florida Panthers on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Jonny Brodzinski scored twice, Adam Sykora scored his first goal and Dylan Garand made 27&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-565668","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\/565668","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=565668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}