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“#Artemi Panarin, Kaapo Kakko propel Rangers to slump-busting win<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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It don\u2019t come easy, as Mr. Richard Starkey once observed about hockey teams that are enduring goal-scoring famines, and he was sure right about that.<\/p>\n

But there is no column in the standings representing [corporate name deleted] degree of difficulty. Every victory looks just as beautiful as the next, even if achieved in a teeth-pulling contest.<\/p>\n

So, the Rangers embraced their 3-2 shootout triumph in Philadelphia on Thursday night that stanched a losing streak, which had grown to four game<\/a>s, albeit with one losers\u2019 point tossed in the mix.<\/p>\n

True enough, they were forced to the max by a team that hadn\u2019t played in 11 days and went without six regulars on the COVID-protocol list, but the point is that the Blueshirts persevered and came out on the other side with a pair of points essential to the club\u2019s mental health, even if the Flyers knotted the contest with just 1:14 remaining in regulation with the extra attacker. The Rangers were not about to quibble.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think that we didn\u2019t break,\u201d said Brendan Smith, who had scored the go-ahead 2-1 goal from the goalmouth at 8:21 of the third. \u201cWith a lot of younger teams, you\u2019ll see they break after a team gets that tying goal, but it was good resilience, it was a good effort to respond and not get down on ourselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe needed that. We really needed that. We\u2019ve just got to keep pulling on the same chain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Artemi Panarin scores a shootout goal on Carter Hart during the Rangers\u2019 3-2 win over the Flyers. <\/figcaption>
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Alexandar Georgiev did not face a high volume of shots, in fact only 22 on the night, but was exceptionally sharp in breaking his own four-game losing streak (0-2-2) while turning aside a half-dozen golden opportunities. Artemi Panarin, who had missed the previous two games with an upper-body issue, put on a tour de force, launching a total of 16 attempts, eight on net, before becoming the decider in the shootout in which Kaapo Kakko converted out of the leadoff spot.<\/p>\n

The power play even scored a goal, its first since \u2014 checking notes here \u2014 Doug Harvey was on the point and Camille Henry was setting up at the goalmouth for tip-ins. Well, wait, no, it hadn\u2019t quite been six decades, only six games, since Feb.1. Colin Blackwell\u2019s high-slot redirect beat Carter Hart at 3:24 of the second period to negate the Flyers\u2019 opening score off a goalmouth scramble just 59 seconds into the contest.<\/p>\n

Check out the goal-scorers again: Smith and Blackwell. The Blueshirts have scored six goals in their past five games. Two from Blackwell, one from Smith, one from Kevin Rooney, one from Julien Gauthier (scratched Thursday) and one from Pavel Buchnevich. That does not represent a blueprint for Rangers success. Still, the need to extrapolate is diminished by the importance of this victory that, at least temporarily, revived good feelings.<\/p>\n

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