Marianne Shesterkin’s Heroic Stop Seals Rangers’ Dominant 4-0 Sweep!

Shesterkin made a season-high 46 saves and was especially brilliant in the final two periods, when the Wild outshot the Blueshirts 42-9 – including 21-1 in the third period. “Shesty had a great performance for us,” said defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov, who had a goal and two assists. Noah Laba, Jaroslav Chmelar and Vincent Trocheck also scored for the Rangers, who had nine of the game’s first 12 shots before the Wild spent the rest of the night bombarding Shesterkin.

Nick Wosika-Imagn Images The Rangers improved to 6-1-2 since play resumed after the Olympic break. Not surprisingly, that surge coincides with the return of Shesterkin and No. 1 defenseman Adam Fox from the lower-body injuries each sustained on Jan.

5. The Blueshirts (28-30-8) look like a team that’s happy to be playing hockey; they’re playing with the kind of looseness that was rarely in evidence before the break. Shesterkin stopped six shots apiece by 38-goal scorer Kirill Kaprizov and former Blueshirt fan favorite Mats Zuccarello.

The Wild had 86 shot attempts to 39 for the Rangers, and New York killed six of seven power plays against the NHL’s third-best man-advantage unit. Shesterkin’s heroics carry Rangers to 4-2 win against Wild Just as they did in a 6-3 victory in Winnipeg on Thursday, the Rangers wasted little time getting on the scoreboard with a power-play goal. Wild defenseman Brock Faber was called for tripping 54 seconds after the opening face-off, and the Rangers’ second power-play unit converted when Noah Laba rifled a shot from the slot past Filip Gustavsson’s glove at 2:41.