First Period:
- Liam O’Brien (2) Assists: Loui Eriksson (8), Shayne Gostisbehere (18)
- Jacob Trouba (7) Assists: Chris Kreider (13), Mika Zibanejad (25)
- Andrew Ladd (6) Assists: Christian Fischer (4), Riley Nash (2)
Second Period:
- Clayton Keller (15) Assists: Travis Boyd (9), Nick Schmaltz (9)
- Chris Kreider (27) (Shorthanded) Assists: Mika Zibanejad (26), Jacob Trouba (13)
- Julien Gauthier (3) Assists: Dryden Hunt (5), Kevin Rooney (4)
- Artemi Panarin (11) (Power Play) Assists: Mika Zibanejad (26), Adam Fox (37)
- Chris Kreider (28) Unassisted
Third Period:
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- Jacob Trouba (8) Assists: Ryan Strome (22), K’Andre Miller (7)
- Chris Kreider (29) (Power Play) Assists: Adam Fox (38), Artemi Panarin (32)
Three Stars:
- 3: Artemi Panarin
- 2: Jacob Trouba
- 1: Chris Kreider
Stats:
Adam Rotter:
- This was two games for the Rangers. The first 30 minutes where they were awful and the Coyotes had their way and then the final thirty minutes that were like how the game should have been all along.
- The Rangers did this against Arizona last month as well, though in that game they waited until the third period to score, take the lead and win. Special teams, the PP especially, played a big part in turning that game around as well.
- Chris Kreider just keeps scoring and scoring and scoring. He could get to 30 goals on Monday and he’s putting together one of the great goal-scoring seasons, potentially, in Rangers history.
- The end result is two points and the kind of blowout that a team with the Rangers offensive talent can put up against a team like Arizona, but I don’t think you can discount how the first 30 minutes played out. We’ve seen time and time again that they can score in bunches, erase deficits and find ways to win, but that shouldn’t have to be the case against a team like Arizona. I know the Coyotes aren’t laying down and letting teams walk all over them, but the Rangers should never have let things get to where they got midway through the second period and what was looking like, potentially, their worst loss of the season. It’s easy to gloss over that and say that all that matters is that they won, but we saw last night that they won’t be able to do this all the time and especially against the better teams that are coming up after the All-Star break. They need better starts, they need to be more consistent and they need to stop relying on their special teams to bail them out all the time because there are going to be games when they don’t get those PP chances. A lot will change for the Rangers when/if they start producing more at 5-on-5.
- A rematch with the Kings on Monday should be a nice test after LA beat them pretty good a few weeks ago.