RANGERS NOTES<\/p>\n
OPENING AT THE GARDEN \u2013 The Rangers earned their first two points of the season in their 2026-27 home\u00a0opener. New York has now earned a point in five of their last six home openers (3-1-2). Against Tampa Bay, the\u00a0Blueshirts have won their last two matchups and have earned points in eight of their last 10 games at home\u00a0against them (7-2-1).<\/p>\n
GETTING ON THE BOARD \u2013 Eight different Rangers skaters tallied at least one point against the Lightning\u00a0and three skaters notched multi-point games: Pavel Dorofeyev (1G-1A), Adam Fox (2A), Mika Zibanejad (1G-1A), Oliver Bjorkstrand (1A), Noah Laba (1A), Gabe Perreault (1G), Igor Shesterkin (1G) and Eeli Tolvanen (1G).<\/p>\n
GOALIE GOAAAAL – Igor Shesterkin became the first Rangers goaltender in franchise history to score a\u00a0goal and became the 18th goaltender in NHL history to do so. Earning his first win of the season, he became\u00a0the fourth-fastest Rangers goaltender to earn 100 career home wins with the team (177 GP).<\/p>\n
Adam Fox notched his 76th career multi-assist game as a Ranger, surpassing James Patrick and tying\u00a0Ron Greschner for the second-most multi-assist games by a defenseman in franchise history. He also tied\u00a0Greschner and Zibanejad for the eighth-most multi-assist games among all skaters in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad scored the first goal in tonight\u2019s game and for the 60th time with the Rangers. He surpassed\u00a0Chris Kreider (59) for the second-most instances in franchise history, following Rod Gilbert (72). Zibanejad\u00a0notched his 137th career power play goal and his 121st since the 2017-18 season, ranking third among all NHL\u00a0skaters in that span.<\/p>\n
Pavel Dorofeyev and Eeli Tolvanen both scored their first goals as Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RANGERS NOTES OPENING AT THE GARDEN \u2013 The Rangers earned their first two points of the season in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-362566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362566","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=362566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}