What Gerard Gallant said after the loss to Vegas

Gerard Gallant met with the media following the loss to Vegas and said (NYR,MSG):

On things getting away in the second period, “Yea, loved our first 25 minutes, we competed hard, played hard, it was 1-1 game and then, from that point on, when they scored the second goal, it seemed like everything went the wrong way, we didn’t have the compete anymore, didn’t have the hard work. Real disappointing the last 35-minutes.”

Rangers blown out in Vegas 5-1

First Period:

Jonathan Marchessault (17) (Power Play) Assists: Reilly Smith (16), Nicolas Roy (12)

Second Period:

Third Period:

The Rangers have announced that Igor Shesterkin is in Covid protocol.

Alex Georgiev will start tonight against Vegas. Keith Kinkaid has been called up from the Taxi Squad.

6:30 PM: Gerard Gallant was on The Michael Kay show and said some of the following (YES):

Are you surprised how well you have done, “yes and no, to be honest with you. Coming to the team, I didn’t know the team real well, once you get here and the people tell you how strong the goaltending is and Foxy and all the top end players, they are probably better players than I thought they were last year. We’ve been fortunate to be pretty healthy for the most part, knock on wood, haven’t been hit by Covid real hard like some teams. I think a lot of things have gone well for us, but to be honest with you, I think we are taking a step and our young players are playing really well and starting to grow their game. I think everything is coming together for us. Can we be as good as the good teams? Yes, I think we are. The guys feel like that right now, we will see where it goes, but everybody feels we are a real good team.”

Gerard Gallant met with the media following the win over the Oilers and said (MSG, NYR):

On the game, “I liked when we talked before the game, we talked about 20 guys playing and 20 guys showed up and played hard. That was huge for our group and we played a good game, got the lead again, and kept going.”