The New York Rangers defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-2 and move ahead of them in the standings

The New York Rangers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers by the score of 4-2 on Tuesday night. The game took place at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. The Rangers got off to a hot start but then were down 2-1 before tying the game at the end of the first period. There were no goals in the second and Rick Nash took over the game and scored the last two games in the third period. Henrik Lundqvist was good. 
Ryan Callahan started the scoring with a goal at the 1:30 mark of the first period. Derek Stepan and Marion Gaborik had assists on the goal. Wayne Simmonds scored a power play goal at the 7:18 mark to tie the game with assists from Claude Giroux and Voracek. Voracek scored a power play goal at the 17:07 mark of the first period with assists from Simmonds and Timonen. Callahan scored to tie the game at two at the 19:19 mark of the first period. Ryan McDonagh assisted on the goal.

There were no goals in the second period and in the third Nash scored at the 2:50 mark and the 11:42 mark. The assists were from Dan Girardi, Stepan and Callahan.

Lundqvist made 25 saves on 27 shots on goal. Bryzgalov made 20 saves on 24 shots for the Flyers. The Rangers power play was 1-4 as that has picked up for them lately. The Rangers are now a point ahead of the Flyers and they have three games in hand on them. They are only one point behind the Devils and the Rangers have a couple of games in hand on them as well. The Rangers will play the Islanders in Long Island on Thursday night.

New York Rangers lose in a shootout in Ottawa

The New York Rangers were trailing 1-0 in this game and came back and were able to salvage a point. They took a 2-1 lead within a minute though and then gave up a power play goal. It was an exciting overtime and both teams had some chances but it went to a shootout and in the 7^th round the Rangers lost. Chris Kreider had a chance to keep it going but hit the post to end the game. JT Miller in the sixth round made a nice move and he just couldn’t finish as he had the empty net to shoot at. 
The first goal of the game was scored at the 6:48 mark of the first period. Jakob Silfverberg scored a shorthanded goal. The assists were from Daniel Alfredsson. Ryan Callahan scored a power play goal to tie it at the 10:44 mark of the third period.

The Rangers took the lead at the 11:35 mark of the third period. Ryan McDonagh scored with assists from J.T. Miller and Jeff Halpern. Miller got his first NHL assist. At the 13:30 mark of the third period Mika Zibanejad scored with assists from Greening and Wiercioch.

Kaspars Daugavins scored the winning goal in the shootout. Callahan scored the only shootout goal for the Rangers. The Senators had 37 shots on goal in regulation and the Rangers had 34. In overtime each team had three shots on goal.

The Rangers will play at Montreal on Saturday. They remain in eighth place in the conference and three points behind the Senators and four points behind three other teams. It is a very bunched up conference right now.

The New York Rangers win their second game in a row

The New York Rangers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers by the score of 2-1 on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. They came out flying and took an early 1-0 lead on a Michael Del Zotto goal. They held that lead for a while until they scored again in the second period on a Ryan Callahan goal. The Flyers were able to cut the lead to 2-1 early in the third on a power play but that would be it as the Rangers were able to hold them off especially in the end. 
The Rangers played a very solid game, Henrik Lundqvist was good, the defense for the most part was good and the offense was good. The Flyers goalie was very sharp otherwise it could have been worse. The Rangers power play even looked more in sync then it has been.

Ryan Callahan who scored the second and game winning goal left the game in the third period after getting into a fight. He has a hurt shoulder which turned out to be a shoulder sublaxation. He will miss 10-14 games which isn’t good but it could have been a lot worse.

The Rangers had 28 shots on goal to the Flyers 27. The Rangers are now 3-3 on the season and the Flyers are 2-5. Del Zotto was the number one star with Lundqvist being the second star and Rick Nash being the third star. The Rangers will next play the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night at home.

The Rangers still want to get better in certain areas but they are starting to come together and play their game. Rick Nash has played very well but he has only one goal and may need to start scoring soon especially without Callahan for a while. The Rangers have won three of their last four and two in a row, they will try to make that three in a row on Thursday night.