TEAM NOTES<\/p>\n
MIKA MAGIC<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad was named the winner of the 2025-26 Steven McDonald Extra Effort Award on Tuesday evening. He\u00a0has recorded at least one point in six of his last nine games (6G-2A), and leads the Rangers this season in goals (33),\u00a0power play goals (15) and points (70). On Mar. 31, he notched his sixth 70-point season as a Ranger, surpassing Mark\u00a0Messier and Artemi Panarin for the fifth-most 70-point seasons in franchise history.<\/p>\n
He is one of four skaters in the NHL this season with 30+ goals, 30+ assists and 15+ power play goals. Since Jan. 2, his 21 goals are tied for the second-most among all NHL skaters, and his 15 power play goals this season are tied for fifth in the league. Among all Rangers skaters in franchise history, his 283 goals rank fourth and his 659 points rank seventh.<\/p>\n
Among all Swedish players in NHL history, his 135 career power play goals are tied for third and sits three power play\u00a0goals away from tying Daniel Sedin for second (138). His 347 career goals rank seventh among all Swedish players in\u00a0NHL history and this season, he became the 22nd Swedish player in NHL history to have skated in 1,000 career games.<\/p>\n
SHESTY\u2019S SAVES<\/p>\n
Igor Shesterkin has helped the Rangers win back-to-back games and has helped them earn points in 14 of his last 19\u00a0decisions (11-5-3). He has allowed two or fewer goals in 25 games this season, tied for the seventh-most games among\u00a0all NHL goaltenders, and in 166 career games as a Ranger, the seventh-most in franchise history. He ranks ninth in\u00a0team history with 90 games allowing one or fewer goals.<\/p>\n
Among all goaltenders this season with 45 or more starts, his .912 save percentage is tied for the league lead and his 2.52 goals against average ranks fourth.<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of the 2021-22 season and among all goaltenders with at least 100 games played, Shesterkin\u00a0leads the league in save percentage (.916), ranks third in shutouts (20), fourth in wins (160) and has the fifth-lowest\u00a0goals against average (2.51). In that span, he ranks second among all NHL goaltenders with 79 games allowing one or\u00a0fewer goals.<\/p>\n
FANTASTIC MR. FOX<\/p>\n
Adam Fox has tallied back-to-back multi-point games and has registered at least one point in four-straight games (1G-6A). He has registered 14 assists since Mar. 5, the fourth-most assists in the league in that span. This season, he ranks\u00a0first on the Blueshirts in takeaways (35) and is tied for the lead in assists (38), and leads all Rangers defensemen in\u00a0assists and points (44).<\/p>\n
He notched his 104th career multi-point game as a Ranger on Mar. 31. He sits one multi-point game away from tying\u00a0James Patrick for third (105) among all Rangers defensemen in franchise history, and two multi-assist games away\u00a0from tying Patrick for third (75).<\/p>\n
Among all Rangers defensemen in franchise history, Fox ranks second in takeaways (383), fourth in assists (344) and\u00a0points (413), fifth in blocked shots (747) and eighth in goals (68). He sits one goal shy of tying Dave Maloney (70) for\u00a0the seventh-most goals in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Fox is raising money toward the Tackle ALS organization to help the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital develop therapies that repair or reverse damage caused by ALS and ultimately prevent the disease entirely this season. For every goal he scores, he will be donating $1,023 to Tackle ALS and for every assist, he will be donating $523. So far this season, Fox has donated $26,012 (6G-38A) to the cause.<\/p>\n
MILLER TIME<\/p>\n
J.T. Miller has tallied at least one point in four-straight games (2G-4A) and has nine points over his last eight games\u00a0(2G-7A). Since Mar. 18, his seven assists are tied for seventh in the NHL. This season, he ranks third on the Rangers in\u00a0faceoff wins (489), fourth in hits (118), fifth in assists (31) and points (47), and is tied for fourth in goals (16).<\/p>\n
Among all NHL skaters with at least 500 faceoffs this season, his 61.5 faceoff percentage ranks second in the league.\u00a0Since the start of the 2024\u201325 season, he ranks third among all NHL players with 1,000 or more faceoffs in faceoff\u00a0percentage (59.7).<\/p>\n
LAFF LIGHTS UP<\/p>\n
Alexis Lafreniere has recorded five points (2G-3A) in his last four games. He leads the Rangers this season with five\u00a0game-winning goals, ranks second in goals (22) and power play goals (8), and third in points (52). Since Mar. 2, he is\u00a0tied for sixth in the NHL in goals (9).<\/p>\n
Since 2022-23, his 16 game-winning goals are tied for the lead among all New York skaters.<\/p>\n
This season, his six three-point games are tied for the most among all Rangers skaters and his 15 multi-point games rank\u00a0third. Since 2021-22, his 52 multi-point games and nine three-point games both rank sixth among all Rangers skaters.<\/p>\n
FORECHECK, BACKCHECK, TROCHECK<\/p>\n
Vincent Trocheck leads the Rangers this season in faceoff wins (569), ranks second in hits (179), fourth in points (49)\u00a0and assists (34), and ranks sixth in goals (15). His two shorthanded goals this season are tied for the most on New York\u00a0and his nine shorthanded goals as a Ranger rank 11th in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Among Rangers skaters in franchise history with 500 or more faceoffs taken, his 57.9 faceoff percentage ranks second.\u00a0Since 2024\u201325, Trocheck ranks fourth in the NHL in faceoff percentage (58.4) among skaters who have taken 1,000 or\u00a0more faceoffs. In that same time frame, he ranks sixth in the NHL with 1,479 overall faceoff wins.<\/p>\n
VLAD ATTACK<\/p>\n
Vladislav Gavrikov has scored a career-high 14 goals this season, the third-most goals by a Rangers defenseman in\u00a0his first season with New York. Among all NHL blueliners, he is tied for ninth in goals this season and since Feb. 28, is\u00a0tied for fourth in goals (5).<\/p>\n
He leads the Rangers with an average time on ice of 23:47 and among New York defensemen, he ranks first in goals\u00a0and second in assists (17) and points (31).<\/p>\n
TOO COOL<\/p>\n
Will Cuylle leads the Rangers in hits (265), ranks fourth in power play goals (4) and is tied for fourth in goals (16). He\u00a0sits one point shy of 100 career points. The Rangers\u2019 record this season when Cuylle scores a goal is 11-3-0.<\/p>\n
His 265 hits this season rank fifth in the league, and his 566 hits since 2024\u201325 rank third. He is the only players in the\u00a0league this season with 260+ hits and 60+ blocked shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEAM NOTES MIKA MAGIC Mika Zibanejad was named the winner of the 2025-26 Steven McDonald Extra Effort Award…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-183358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}