Don’t look now, but the Rangers may be heating up.
Maybe there were asterisks next to the club’s wins over the Pacific Division-leading Golden Knights and the reigning champions in the Avalanche, who were both missing key players when the Rangers beat them both in their buildings last week. It’s also easy to point out the Rangers still gave the Devils a point when they beat the No. 2 team in the NHL in overtime this week.
Toronto entered the game on a three-game win streak and had won nine of its past 10 contests for a third-place ranking in the NHL. All of the Leafs’ big guns were in their lineup. It was a high-spirited matchup and the Rangers earned each of the two points fair and square. As a team, the penalty kill was stellar. It fought off all three of the Maple Leafs’ power plays, which gave the unit an 11-for-13 record over this five-game winning streak, while generating some offense in the process. The Rangers also prevented Toronto’s Mitchell Marner from extending his 23-game point streak and Auston Matthews from building on his eight-game tear, for that matter.
New York Rangers defenseman Adam Fox tries to tries to steal the puck from Toronto Maple Leafs center John Tavares.Vesey continues to earn every penny of the veteran minimum $750,000 contract he signed after impressing during his professional tryout at the start of this season. With the game tied at 1-1 in the second period, the 29-year-old forward made an aggressive move to the net and buried the puck past Toronto goalie Matt Murray to give the Rangers a 2-1 lead at 15:33.
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