On the game, “It was a real good game, I thought we played great hockey until we took those two penalties and gave them some momentum there. I thought we played as solid a game as we played all year, for sure.”

Rangers beat Vegas 5-1

First Period:

Second Period:

Jonathan Marchessault (11) (Power Play) Assists: Chandler Stephenson (16), Shea Theodore (18)

Third Period:

Mika Zibanejad (14) (Power Play) Assists: Artemi Panarin (25), Adam Fox (22)
Filip Chytil (5) Assists: Barclay Goodrow (6), Artemi Panarin (26)
Alexis Lafreniere (5) Assists: Mika Zibanejad (17), Adam Fox (23)
Mika Zibanejad (15) (Power Play) Assists: Artemi Panarin (27), Vincent Trocheck (9)

Updates before the game against Vegas

9:45 PM: Igor Shesterkin is in net. (MSG)

6:40 PM: Filip Chytil will return to the Rangers lineup tonight and skate between Artemi Panarin and Barclay Goodrow. (NYR)

The other lines at the morning skate today were (NHL Network):

Sammy Blais, Jonny Brodzinski, and Julien Gauthier are expected to be the fourth line. (NHL Network)

Vitali Kravtsov, Ryan Carpenter, and Ben Harpur are expected to be scratched. (Staple)

Gerard Gallant met with the media following the win over St. Louis and said (NYR/MSG):

On the game, “It was three completely different periods. First period I thought was a good game, two teams not giving up a lot, second period, obviously, with the penalties we took and then we fell behind and kept chasing the game after that, give up a couple of bad goals on the rush and then in the third period we found a way to get to the net and a couple of deflection goals. It was three completely different periods and we’ll take the W, it’s a big win for us, but it wasn’t a perfect game by no means for either team.”