{"id":557495,"date":"2026-04-01T04:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557495\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:07:09","slug":"rangers-igor-shesterkin-gets-into-heated-goalie-fight-with-devils-jacob-markstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557495\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; Igor Shesterkin gets into heated goalie fight with Devils&#8217; Jacob Markstrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even in the midst of a lost season for the Rangers and Devils, the Hudson River rivalry can still produce some intense moments.<\/p>\n<p>That  was on display Tuesday night in the Rangers\u2019 4-1 win when Blueshirts goaltender Igor Shesterkin walloped Devils netminder Jacob Markstrom in the third period at the Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Markstrom skated all the way down from the other end of the ice, without his helmet, ready to go against Shesterkin to the delight of the Manhattan crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A referee briefly tried to dissuade the two, but quickly skated out of the way as the two traded blows, with Shesterkin getting a flurry of punches in at one point before Markstrom got pushed down to the ice.<\/p>\n<p>The fight happened at the 9:05 mark of the third period with the Rangers ahead 4-1, which held as the final score.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both goaltenders were assessed five-minute majors and penalties for leaving their creases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fisticuffs were the first that Shesterkin has been involved in during his NHL career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Markstrom was last involved in a fight in 2015 while he was playing for the Utica Devils of the AHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:2.18777293;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38955750\" width=\"1002\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-9.34.20-PM.png\" alt=\"Igor Shesterkin got into a heated scrap on Tuesday night.\" class=\"wp-image-38955750\"  \/>Igor Shesterkin got into a heated scrap on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>That fight involved Binghamton Senators goaltender Peter Mannino.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s game at MSG marked the final meeting between the Metropolitan Division rivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even in the midst of a lost season for the Rangers and Devils, the Hudson River rivalry can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[121367,4822,4823,385,99],"class_list":["post-557495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-igor-shesterkin","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557495","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=557495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}