limited to a single goal<\/a> in their previous three losses.<\/p>\nIt was as if the Rangers blinked and they were trailing 2-0 Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The Canadiens needed all of 3:42 seconds to build the two-goal lead, which was fueled by their speed, energy and quick puck decisions. <\/p>\n
J.T. Miller (8) celebrates his goal with teammates Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re (13) and Mika Zibanejad (93) during the third period of the Rangers\u2019 4-3 road win over the Canadiens on Oct. 18, 2025. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n
A bad bounce off of Matthew Robertson, who was attempting to keep the puck in the offensive zone, sprung Cole Caufield and Juraj Slafkovsk\u00fd on an odd-man rush for the Habs first goal.<\/p>\n
Slafkovsk\u00fd banged it home to open the scoring just over a minute and a half into the game.<\/p>\n
Charged with two early penalties, the Rangers gave up a power-play goal on their very first penalty kill of the night. Nick Suzuki cashed in on a wide-open net after a circle-to-circle feed from Ivan Demidov.<\/p>\n
The Rangers hadn\u2019t even registered a single shot on goal yet.<\/p>\n
A Josh Anderson holding penalty gave the visitors their first man-advantage opportunity, which Mika Zibanejad capitalized on with a one-timer from the faceoff circle to cut Montreal\u2019s lead in half. It counted as his 109th power-play score with the Rangers to surpass Rod Gilbert for third most in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Matthew Robertson celebrates with teammates after scoring a third-period goal in the Rangers\u2019 road win over the Canadiens. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Sam Carrick later dropped the gloves with Arber Xhekaj at the end of the second period, and the veteran center more than held his own against the Canadiens enforcer. <\/p>\n
The Rangers seemed to have some extra gas in the tank afterward.<\/p>\n
Juraj Slafkovsk\u00fd (20) scores a goal on Jonathan Quick during the first period of the Rangers\u2019 road win over the Canadiens. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad (not pictured) scores a goal on Sam Montembeault (35) during the first period of the Rangers\u2019 road win over the Canadiens. Eric Bolte-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
As their carried-over power play expired early in the third period, J.T. Miller redirected an Adam Fox shot past Montreal goalie Sam Montembeault to even the score at 2-2.<\/p>\n
Rookie defenseman Robertson then notched his first NHL goal off a shot from the top of the zone to put the Rangers on top.<\/p>\n
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The Rangers have needed much more offense from their top six to start the season, but they certainly showed up Saturday night. <\/p>\n
Zibanejad dished to Artemi Panarin in transition before the star Russian wing whipped it home for his first goal of the season and the 4-2 lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 As is the case with Rangers season as a whole, it\u2019s not about how you start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[35717,51063,11558,4823,385,99],"class_list":["post-235417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adam-fox","tag-j-t-miller","tag-mika-zibanejad","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}