The New York Rangers defeated the
Montreal Canadiens on Monday night. The
game took place at Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada and the final score was 3-1
Rangers. The Rangers were down 3 games
to one in the second round against the Pittsburgh Penguins and then from that
point on haven't lost a game. They were
galvanized by the passing of Martin St. Louis mom and Henrik Lundqvist has been
great. The Rangers stormed back against
Pittsburgh and won the series to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. They now have won the first two games on the
road and are heading home with a 2 games to none lead. They are two wins away from the Stanley Cup
Final.
Henrik Lundqvist made 41 saves and
let one goal in. He was the second star
of the game with Ryan McDonagh getting the first star and Derek Stepan getting
the third star. McDonagh and Stepan each
had two points. The goals were scored by
McDonagh, St. Louis and Nash. Rick Nash
who has had so much trouble scoring has now scored two goals in the last two
games.
The Rangers have now won five games
in a row and are really flying high. The
Rangers broke a 14 game losing streak of trying to increase the lead in a
series. They have finally done it and
are playing with so much confidence right now that it looks like it will be
hard to beat them. Lundqvist has really
stepped up his game and been like a brick wall and they have a deep balanced
team that can put the puck in the net.
The power play is playing much better again and scoring some goals and
the penalty kill has been great as well.
The Rangers would love to win game
three and have a chance at a series sweep in game four but they want to at
least split the two games and have a three games to one series lead heading back
to Montreal to try and finish it. If
they have that and then don't win they will have a chance to clinch it on home
ice and head to their first finals since 1994 and have a chance to win their
first Stanley Cup since then.
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