Henrik Lundqvist made the perfect match.
New York Rangers Swedish saved 33 shots in the 3-0 victory against Carolina.
And the beat while a couple of longstanding Rangers record – most games and most saves in the club’s history.
– To be compared to legends feels good, says Lundqvist.
It was Henrik Lundqvist 743 th game in the Rangers-shirt included both regular season and playoffs. But it outshone his Mike Richters (742 matches for the club the years 1989-2003) listing for Rangers goalkeepers.
And fittingly broke his Richters record number of saves for the Rangers just that night.
With 1:41 left in the first period saved “Henke” Jeff Skinner shot and it was his 19-405th Rescue club with regular season and playoffs included.
– Each time compared to legends, it feels good . You realize that you’ve been here a while and had the good fortune to belong to several good lineups and they have given me the chance to play many matches, said Henrik Lundqvist after the game according to nhl.com.
A total of 33 rescues became the night and many of them really advanced.
moved sideways
Above all, it was a parade of eight minutes left in which the American television commentator got up the decibel level.
Carolinas Victor Rask got an opening pass and pinched directly. But Henrik Lundqvist made a quick sideways movement and saved with both shin and picking glove.
– Ooooh, it was really beautiful. He is amazing, screamed the commentator.
In addition to Lundqvist’s phenomenal game was two quick goals in the first period is crucial and gave the Rangers the win.
Jesper Fast (the season’s third) and Rick Nash (only others) put respectively puck in the space of eleven seconds.
And just 13 seconds into the third period made hill Ryan McDonagh 3-0 and then ran ‘Henke’ rest.
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Near some games before
O was Lundqvist’s first of the season and his 56 th NHL career – the first Since 14 December 2014.
– I wanted it. It has become, vad..15, 16 matches this season? You want to push yourself to get a zero and I were close for a few matches ago. When I went into the third period, it was my goal, to keep a clean sheet, said Henrik Lundqvist according nhl.com.
For Sportbladet admits he was a bit lucky too.
– I had a little fluency with some ramträffar but overall it felt really good, he says.
His start to the season has been amazing. With eight wins in twelve starts, he shared second with Washington’s Braden Holtby. The duo is a victory for Minnesota Devan Dubnyk.
And in the two keeper leagues are Lundqvist to the very top with 94.9 in save percentage and 1.65 goals against average per game.
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Even Detroit’s goalie Petr Mrazek was the season’s first zero. He saved 38 shots when the claret walls beat Washington at home 1-0.
15 (fifteen!) Of the shots came from Alexander Ovechkin’s club. Caps captain touched the Sergei Fedorovs goal record for Russian NHL players in the last match and chased Now another goal to pass the recently elected the Hall of Fame legend.
First Star
Ovechkin’s 15 shots are equaling his personal record. He shot just as many against the Carolina 7 October 2006.
But the shots were in vain last night. Mrazek took everything and was of course chosen to score the first star.
Second star had played, only scorer – 21-year-old Canadian rookie Andreas Athanasiou who scored his first NHL goal in his second game.
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Last year’s finalist Tamp Bay has the heavy.
Last night there was a loss against Buffalo on hemmais, 1- 4th
Super Talent Jack Eichel accounted for a goal and an assist for the Sabres and the Finnish hill Rasmus Ristolainen put his third goal in two games when he shot trailing 4-1 in the empty bag.
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Top Team Dallas has problems with bottom team Toronto. In the night came second loss of two possible this season.
Western Conference league leaders turned 0-1 to 2-1 only to see Toronto to copy the feat and win 3-2.
decisive goal was scored by Jake Gardiner 16:32 into the third period. Johnny Oduya had only Swedish point when he assisted Patrick Sharp’s 1-1 equalizer.
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