Down to 4 defensemen, Senators hold the Rangers to the fewest shots by an NHL team since 2003
James Reimer kept expecting the New York Rangers to put shots on net. It was the fewest shots against in franchise history, the Rangers' lowest output since 1955 — and the worst by any NHL team in more than two decades, predating the salary cap. "The boys played great," said Reimer, the Ottawa goalie.
NEW YORK (AP) — James Reimer kept expecting the New York Rangers to put shots on net. They rarely did. And by the end of the game Monday night, the Ottawa Senators had allowed just nine shots on goal in a 2-1 victory at Madison Square Garden.
It was the fewest shots against in franchise history, the Rangers' lowest output since 1955 — and the worst by any NHL team in more than two decades, predating the salary cap. "The boys played great," said Reimer, the Ottawa goalie. Even more impressive, they did so after losing two more players to injury and playing more than half the game with just four defensemen.
Thomas Chabot left in the final seconds of the first period after taking a stick to the right arm from Rangers captain J. T. Miller, and Lassi Thomson exited his first game in the league since Nov.
25, 2022, with an undisclosed lower-body injury in the second. “Whenever you get down to four D-men and you find a way to win, it’s a gutsy effort," said Warren Foegele, who scored his fifth goal in nine games since joining Ottawa ahead of the trade deadline in a deal from Los Angeles. "The whole group stepped up when those guys went down.