RALEIGH, N.C. - There’s something special happening with these New York Rangers.
You could make a very real case that they have been outplayed in back-to-back games by the Carolina Hurricanes, who have consistently applied pressure and won the shots-on-goal battle. But the Blueshirts are winning where it counts – on the scoreboard – with Thursday’s 3-2 overtime victory in Game 3 at PNC Arena giving them a 3-0 stranglehold in the second-round series.
This marked their second consecutive comeback victory, with Alexis Lafrenière scoring the go-ahead goal on a rush feed from Artemi Panarin with 13:35 to play – his third goal in the last two games − and Panarin finishing it off after Canes forward Andrei Svechnikov's late equalizer forced overtime.