NEW YORK. The fans at Madison Square Garden have to wait for goals.
Rangers combed zero for the second home game in a row tonight.
But then Washington’s goalkeeper Charlie Lindgren was absolutely phenomenal too.
– Yes, he was standing on his head. Fun for him. But if we continue to play like this, it will go well, says Mika Zibanejad to Sportbladet after the 0-1 loss.
Yes, the fact looks somewhat snowy for the New York Rangers after the initial basic series week.
They have dotted ten goals in two away matches – but not a single one in two homeaditons.
With a more normal goalkeeper in Washington’s box, however, they had sent in at least a couple of pucks in the night’s fight, because they played really well and created a series of exquisite chances. But Charlie Lindgren was completely impossible and stopped all 35 shots – several with such good looks that astonished witnesses asked “how did that go?”.
Among other things, he responded at the beginning of the second period for what was already called “Rescue of the Year” when he robbed Mika Zibanejad with the pick after a flying two-on-a-enclosure.
– Yes, he was standing on his head tonight. Fun for him, says Zibanejad with a wry smile in the dressing room afterwards.
– But if we continue like this, things will go well. I think we play mature and don’t get frustrated although the puck did not want to go in. On the bench you can be, but we do not cheat on the ice but continue to grind. You can take that kind of loss, even though you want to win every match.
Tonight’s only goal, Anthony Beauvillier steered into an Alex Ovetjkin shot in the second period.
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