LOS ANGELES. It was the revenge both players and fans had dreamed about.
New York Rangers gave the Flyers The forward Wayne Simmonds after just 39 seconds to give him up for the knockout team, he handed the Rangers captain Ryan McDonagh February 6.
Henrik Lundqvist held to zero it remained only ten seconds, and was appointed again to the web’s best player.
Rangers won the night’s meeting with Philadelphia with 3-1 and Madison Square Garden rocked by joy.
– it is behind us and chasing us in the table, so it was an important victory to extend the distance to them, said Henke Rangers website afterward.
he saved 21 shots and was rated “MVP” again.
and it was close to him to keep a clean sheet, just 9.7 seconds remained when Brayden Schenn did Flyers consolation.
this was Henrik Lundqvist’s 667 th match in Rangers Kassen, which is a new club record in terms of number of league games for a goalkeeper.
– I think we showed great patience and controlled the puck well deep in the attacking zone. But we gave them too many power play, says Henke.
“Wanted to send him a message”
It was in the mood for a hot meeting given what happened in Philadelphia just over a week ago, when Wayne Simmonds answered a crosschecking from Ryan McDonagh to beat the Rangers captain in the face with a blow that brought down the opponent.
McDonagh suffered a concussion and has missed four straight games so far .
Even during the heating in the night was the Rangers tough guy Dylan McIlrath front and incited against Simmonds.
When the puck is released, it took only 39 seconds before the two threw the gloves and fought in full swing.
Both players met with blows and ended up Simmonds was bleeding from a wound above his left eye.
– it was pretty clear that I wanted to send him a message. I wanted to stand up for our captain and best player, said McIlrath afterwards.
Only 20 seconds later, put the Rangers striker Tanner Glass in a heavy tackle against the Flyers Tough guy Radko Gudas, who got his teammate Ryan White to throw the gloves and go a fight
After a minute the judges had condemned 20 penalty minutes.
Both ended up in the penalty box
Henrik Lundqvist called off the introduction of “energy lifting” while teammate Marc Staal used the word “exciting”.
Since calmed the atmosphere down although Mats Zuccarello and Chris Vandevelde crosscheckade each other a few minutes later, which meant that both ended up in the penalty box.
the match, then ?
the dominated by Rangers.
Derick Brassard gave the home side the lead with 5:08, but then took the next target to the middle of the last period before Derek Stepan increased to 2-0.
Three minutes later, Stepan head back and made the 3-0.
Both times assisted by Zuccarello.
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