heard his name in trade rumors since October<\/a>, scored his first NHL goal.<\/p>\n\u201cIt felt great,\u201d the 23-year-old said. \u201cIt was a long time coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a total outpouring from the Rangers amid a precarious time in the organization.<\/p>\n
The Flyers may have struck first, but the rest of the first period belonged to the Rangers<\/p>\n
After Travis Konecny opened the scoring, the Rangers netted the next three goals to go into the first intermission with a two-goal lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Brennan Othmann #78 of the New York Rangers celebrates his goal with Noah Laba #42 and Will Borgen #17 during the first period against the Philadelphia Flyers at Xfinity Mobile Arena on January 17, 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The response was almost immediate, with Panarin capitalizing on an aggressive passing sequence with his linemates, Lafreni\u00e8re and Trocheck.<\/p>\n
Just 21 seconds later, Zibanejad scored the first of his three goals to give the Rangers their first lead of the day.<\/p>\n
A tough season for the Rangers has been particularly challenging for Othmann, who competed in his ninth NHL game of the season on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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From getting cut from training camp early, hearing the Rangers are willing to move on from him and getting lit up by Washington\u2019s Tom Wilson, the 23-year-old Othmann was overdue for a feel-good performance.<\/p>\n
Scoring his first goal in the 34th game of his NHL career, Othmann made it a 3-1 game off a snipe on a 3-on-1 rush.<\/p>\n
The Flyers were held to one goal on seven shots in the middle frame, in which the Rangers were able to build a 6-2 lead going into the second intermission.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Scoring a power-play goal, Zibanejad became the all-time leader for the franchise.<\/p>\n
And after burying a give-and-go with Miller, Zibanejad now leads the NHL in goals (9) and points (16) since Jan. 2.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s really committed to trying to play the game the right way, the way that we\u2019re trying to play,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cI think he has personified that most of the year. We\u2019ve challenged him to use his size and his physicality, both offensively and defensively, and I think he\u2019s really embraced that challenge. He\u2019s played extremely well for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The Rangers finally found their response. In the first game since president and general manager Chris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[35718,178216,11558,4823,385,1789,99],"class_list":["post-414032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-brennan-othmann","tag-chris-drury","tag-mika-zibanejad","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414032","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=414032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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New York Rangers defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov (44) battles for the puck against Philadelphia Flyers left wing Noah Cates (27) in the second period at Xfinity Mobile Arena. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n