EDMONTON \u2014 The Rangers\u2019 captain may have been the overtime hero Thursday night, but the team never would\u2019ve gotten there without the supporting cast.<\/p>\n
J.T Miller\u2019s goal 2:49 into the extra period secured the Blueshirts a 4-3 win over the Oilers, marking the club\u2019s second win in a row and the second of the four-game road trip that will conclude Saturday night in Seattle.<\/p>\n
The Rangers marquee players have largely left much to be desired to start the season, especially offensively.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s forced the team to find production elsewhere. This time, it was Braden Schneider and Taylor Raddysh who each scored in the final 20 minutes to knot the game at three-all and ultimately force overtime.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe third period was great,\u201d Miller said after the game. \u201cI didn\u2019t have my best today. Obviously, changed the lines up a little bit, trying to spark something. We just had so many guys contribute. [Noah Laba] was unbelievable today. You see Rads chip in again, Schneids. We need that throughout the course of the season, you know what I mean? You have that depth scoring, and they played a heck of a game and drove play for us today and made it easy for the next line going out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a true team effort. When they had their looks, [Igor Shesterkin] played awesome today. That\u2019s just a big team win, something that we can really build on going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
New York Rangers forward J.T. Miller (8) scores a goal during overtime to defeat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 at Rogers Place. Perry Nelson-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Stuart Skinner makes a save on captain J.T. Miller in the second period of the Rangers\u2019 4-3 overtime road win over the Oilers. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Head coach Mike Sullivan thought the Rangers looked deflated after another unsuccessful power play toward the end of the second period, which prompted the Rangers head coach to implore his team to reset their mindset during the second intermission.<\/p>\n
The Rangers, now 4-for-30 on the power play this season, found their legs in the final frame.<\/p>\n
Schneider first cleaned up a loose puck off of Will Cuylle\u2019s drive to the net to register his first goal of the season and cut the Rangers\u2019 deficit to one.<\/p>\n
Jonny Brodzinski (left) and Adam Edstrom celebrate a first-period goal during the Rangers\u2019 overtime road win over the Oilers. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Raddysh, on the other hand, notched his team-leading fifth goal of the season at the 12:04 mark, when the 27-year-old wing whipped the puck past Edmonton goalie Stuart Skinner to even the score at 3-3.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got to make sure that you dig in and you don\u2019t become your own worst enemy by allowing your frustration to get the best of you,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cIt was about a reset and going out and digging in. If we get the next goal, we get within striking distance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Skating in his second straight game after serving as a healthy scratch eight times already this season, Jonny Brodzinski scored his first goal of the season to put the Rangers on the board first. The veteran forward intercepted a puck at the blue line before burying it on his backhand off a breakaway.<\/p>\n
The lead didn\u2019t last long, however, as the Oilers struck back just over a minute later. A Darnell Nurse one-timer from the circle beat Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin to even it up at 1-1.<\/p>\n
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Edmonton was in the driver\u2019s seat throughout the second period, outshooting the visitors by a noticeable 14-8. It led to the Oilers taking a two-goal lead into the final 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
Just as the Oilers\u2019 power play expired at the 10:24 mark of the middle frame, Matt Savoie scored his first NHL goal on a bouncing rebound that went in off his leg in front of the Rangers net.<\/p>\n
Vasily Podkolzin (92) battles with Jonny Brodzinski (22) in front of goaltender Igor Shesterkin during the first period of the Rangers\u2019 overtime comeback road win over the Oilers. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
Nurse later redirected a shot that Shesterkin appeared to save, but a second look by the officials deemed that the puck crossed the goal line.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need guys like that to step up,\u201d Miller said. \u201cIt\u2019s just part of the gig, and it\u2019s a long season. I know mine are going to go in at some point. I know that Mika [Zibanejad] will tell you the same thing, or [Artemi Panarin]. They\u2019re going to go in, so we just have to keep playing the right way and try not to let the emotions get the better of us, because it is hard to stay not frustrated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have guys like Brodzinski stepping up today and scoring the first goal, you just need guys like that. It was a true team effort today, those guys really helped drag us into the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 The Rangers\u2019 captain may have been the overtime hero Thursday night, but the team never would\u2019ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3179,7186,9,11,10,541,539,319],"class_list":["post-23700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-j-t-miller","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23700","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=23700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}