A relentless 20-minute effort Thursday night was just what the Rangers needed to get back in the win column.
The Rangers entered the third period against the Red Wings with the score tied for the seventh time in their last nine games, a product of loose team defense of late. Behind six goals in the final period, however, the Rangers ran the Red Wings off the ice at Little Caesars Arena for an 8-2 win that snapped a three-game losing skid.
There wasn’t much east-west play from the Rangers in the final 20 minutes, in contrast to the first two periods. Instead, they were playing straight-line hockey, and they found many ways to score. The Rangers’ new-look top line of Zibanejad, Chris Kreider and Jimmy Vesey generated some of the team’s best chances, and Kreider tied the score at 2-2 with a power-play goal midway through the second period. It was the Kid Line, however, that generated momentum at several big moments.
The Rangers have been on the wrong end of too many odd-man rushes lately. Coach Gerald Gallant has said it, the players have said it and yet the team as a whole still fell victim to it game after game.
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