The three stars of the game may have been Lindgren, Fox and Strome however the fans at MSG may be equally as responsible for this huge team win. The blueshirts reacted as expected to having fans back in the arena, Ryan Strome mentioned he got chills hearing the roar of the crowd during the anthem. Adam Fox said the 2,000 fans felt like 20,000 and this resulted in the teams best start this season.
Right from the puck drop the Rangers were all over the play, getting shots off, going to the net, generating puck possession and establishing a physical presence. Everything they had to do to win this game they started off doing and it would eventually pay off when Julien Gauthier cut to the net and let a shot go to the back of the net. His goal would later be credited to Phil Di Giuseppe as the puck went off his leg but nevertheless, this got the team going. Towards the end of the 1st, Alexis Lafreniere fed Ryan Strome a beautiful cross ice pass to give us a two goal lead and to log his first career assist.
The Bruins got off to a stronger start in the second mostly due to an early Rangers penalty but luckily our kill was solid as usual. The Bruins found the net just over four minutes into the period off a Bergeron tip in following a collapse in the D zone by the blueshirts. In the final minutes of the period, Adam Fox took the ice on the powerplay and let a shot go that Colin Blackwell deflected. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, Chris Kreider scored just 12 seconds later to take us into the third up 4-1.
The first five minutes were again, all New York as Buchnevich got set up beautifully by Adam Fox for his fifth of the season and Jonny Brodzinski scored his first as a New York Ranger. Boston would find the net once more but it wouldn’t be enough as the Rangers would walk out of this one with a 6-2 win.
This was by far the teams most decisive win and arguably their most complete game despite a sloppy start to the second period. Defensively, the team was solid much in credit to K’Andre Miller’s last minute return coming off Covid-19 protocol. On top of their six goal win, the goals came from six different players which is something you always love to see. Unfortunately, none of those six were Mika Zibanejad, Brett Howden or Brendan Lemieux, three guys who need goals the most right now. Rangers will be tested against this Bruins team again Sunday afternoon and will have to play just like they did in this one in order to come out on top again and hopefully, get a win streak going.
Chris Feldman
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