NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Alexis Lafreniere scored twice and Dylan Garand made 25 saves as the New York Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-1 on Tuesday night for their fifth straight home win.<\/p>\n
Will Cuylle and Mika Zibanejad also scored for the Rangers, who snapped Tampa Bay\u2019s four-game winning streak. The Lightning hadn\u2019t lost since falling to the Rangers 5-1 in New York\u2019s home opener on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n
Lafreniere scored 62 seconds into the game, beating Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy from in close.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old Lafreniere, the first pick in the 2020 NHL draft, scored again at 12:47 of the first, his team-leading seventh goal.<\/p>\n
Ty Kartye assisted on both of Lafreniere’s goals. Kartye also scored twice in New York\u2019s previous game, a 6-2 home win over Vancouver.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay\u2019s Zemgus Girgensons narrowed the deficit to 2-1 with his first goal of the season late in the first.<\/p>\n
Cuylle made it 3-1 late in the second, redirecting a shot by Sean Durzi from the point past Vasilevskiy for his third goal.<\/p>\n
Zibanejad had an empty-netter at 17:16 of the third.<\/p>\n
Lafreniere, who had a hat trick in a 5-2 home win over the Islanders on Oct. 6, has goals in four straight games. His career high in goals was 28 in 2023-24.<\/p>\n
It’s just the third time the Rangers have won five straight home games to start a season. They won six straight in 1983-84 and eight in a row to begin the 1990-91 campaign.<\/p>\n
Garand won his second straight since starting goaltender Igor Shesterkin was injured last Friday at Washington and declared out for the season the next day.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old was serenaded with chants of \u201cDylan, Dylan,\u201d after he made several key saves in the third period.<\/p>\n
Vasilevskiy made 19 saves.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Rangers: At New Jersey on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Lightning: Host Seattle on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Alexis Lafreniere scored twice and Dylan Garand made 25 saves as the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2205,28,4386,115,110,135,862,137,136],"class_list":["post-427457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-hockey","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}