{"id":497561,"date":"2026-03-01T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497561\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:39:09","slug":"shesterkin-rangers-complete-comeback-against-penguins-in-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497561\/","title":{"rendered":"Shesterkin, Rangers complete comeback against Penguins in shootout\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/bryan-rust-8475810\" title=\"Bryan Rust\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Rust<\/a> appeared to extend the lead on the power play at 3:00, taking a cross-ice pass from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/evgeni-malkin-8471215\" title=\"Evgeni Malkin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evgeni Malkin<\/a>\u00a0for a snap shot in the left face-off circle, but it was disallowed after Mantha was ruled to have interfered with Shesterkin following a coach&#8217;s challenge by the Rangers. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rust later hit the right post with another snap shot on a rush at 13:23. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins were outshooting the Rangers 12-2 after Shea made it 2-0 at 1:59 of the second period. He spun off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/noah-laba-8483690\" title=\"Noah Laba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Laba<\/a>\u00a0at the point for a wrist shot that went in off New York defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/scott-morrow-8482666\" title=\"Scott Morrow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Morrow<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We (didn&#8217;t) play bad, we played OK, but we just need to play a little bit simpler sometimes,&#8221; Malkin said. &#8220;We try to play, like, beautiful sometimes. &#8230; When we lead, like, 2-0, we start to play a little bit cute.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zibanejad cut it to 2-1 at 10:00 with a power-play goal, a one-timer from the slot set up by Trocheck. It was Zibanejad&#8217;s team-leading 24th goal and 12th on the power play. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They got buzzing after they scored,&#8221; Skinner said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a momentum shift there. And then, it just kind of stayed that way for a little while.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Rust appeared to extend the lead on the power play at 3:00, taking a cross-ice pass from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-497561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497561","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=497561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}