TEAM NOTES<\/p>\n
HISPANIC HERITAGE NIGHT<\/p>\n
The New York Rangers are set to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Night tomorrow at Madison Square Garden against\u00a0the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n
Prior to the game, the Rangers, Garden of Dreams Foundation and MSG LatinX Employee Resource Group have\u00a0invited youth from Children\u2019s Aid for a pregame tour in the arena and a discussion with MSG\u2019s LatinX employees to\u00a0learn about their career journeys and current roles at MSG.<\/p>\n
As part of the Rangers\u2019 Community Captain program, the Rangers will be honoring Marielys Divanne on behalf of\u00a0The Dominican Women\u2019s Development Center (DWDC) with an in-arena check presentation of $10,000. For 38 years,\u00a0the DWDC has worked to improve quality of life by supporting economic mobility, health, education, family stability\u00a0and community engagement while promoting gender equality and justice.<\/p>\n
LAFF LIGHTS UP<\/p>\n
Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re has scored at least one goal in three-straight games (5G), the second-longest active streak in the league, and has notched at least one point in four-straight games (5G-3A).\u00a0Among all NHL skaters this season, he is\u00a0tied for sixth in goals (5). He currently leads the Rangers in goals and points.<\/p>\n
He notched his third career hat trick on Oct. 6 and is one of five players this season to have recorded one thus far.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 6, he notched his second career four-point game and on Oct. 11, he notched his 57th career multi-point\u00a0game. Since the 2022-23 season, his 50 multi-point games rank fifth among all Rangers skaters.<\/p>\n
FANTASTIC MR. FOX<\/p>\n
Adam Fox has notched six points (6A) through his first seven games of the season. Among all NHL defensemen, he\u00a0is tied for second in assists and is tied for fifth in points. He is tied for the Rangers\u2019 lead in assists and is tied for third\u00a0on the team in points.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 1, he notched his 76th career multi-assist game as a Ranger, surpassing James Patrick and tying Ron\u00a0Greschner for the second-most multi-assist games by a defenseman in franchise history. He also tied Greschner\u00a0and Mika Zibanejad for the eighth-most multi-assist games among all skaters in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Among all NHL defensemen since 2019-20, his 76 multi-assist games rank third. In that same span, his 108 multi-point games also rank third among all NHL blueliners.<\/p>\n
MIKA MAGIC<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad has recorded seven points (1G-6A) through his first seven games of the season. His six assists are tied for\u00a0the seventh-most in the NHL, is tied for the team lead in assists and ranks second on the team in points (7). He currently\u00a0sits four points away from tying Walt Tkaczuk for the sixth-most points among all Rangers in franchise history (678).<\/p>\n
Among all skaters to have taken at least 100 faceoffs this season, Zibanejad ranks second in the NHL with a 57.9\u00a0faceoff win percentage.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 11, he notched his 287th career power play point and his 250th as a Ranger, becoming the third Rangers skater in franchise history to do so (Brian Leetch – 514, Rod Gilbert – 323).\u00a0Notching his 174th career multi-point game\u00a0and his 78th career multi-assist game on Oct. 11 as well, he surpassed Artemi Panarin for the sixth-most multi-point\u00a0games in franchise history and surpassed Walt Tkaczuk for the seventh-most multi-assist games.<\/p>\n
Zibanejad scored the Rangers\u2019 first power play goal of the season on Oct. 1 and the 137th of his career. Since the\u00a02017-18 season, he ranks fourth among all NHL skaters with 121 power play goals. In that same span, his 239 power\u00a0play points rank ninth in the league.<\/p>\n
MILLER TIME<\/p>\n
J.T. Miller has recorded a point in four-straight games (1G-4A) and recorded his first multi-point game of the season\u00a0on Oct. 11.<\/p>\n
Since the 2021-22 season, he is the only NHL player with 400+ points and 700+ hits. In that same time frame, his 271\u00a0assists rank 12th in the NHL.<\/p>\n
Miller\u2019s 59.4 faceoff win percentage since the 2024-25 season is tied for third among all skaters with at least 1,000\u00a0faceoffs taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEAM NOTES HISPANIC HERITAGE NIGHT The New York Rangers are set to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Night tomorrow at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-371950","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\/371950","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=371950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}