NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Kreider scored a hat trick, Adam Fox had 4 assists and Jonathan Quick made 30 saves because the New York Rangers downed the Montreal Canadiens 7-4 on Thursday to match a season excessive with their sixth straight victory.
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Mika Zibanejad added a purpose and two assists for the Rangers, who additionally acquired objectives from Will Cuylle, Vincent Trocheck and Kaapo Kakko. Artemi Panarin added three assists.
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The Rangers, who equaled their season greatest for objectives, scored 4 occasions in 4:10 through the second interval after Montreal took a 1-0 lead within the first.
Cole Caufield had two objectives twice for Montreal, which has misplaced three of 4. Jake Evans and Juraj Slafkovsky additionally scored for the Canadiens.
The 38-year-old Quick grew to become the oldest goaltender in Rangers historical past with a four-game profitable streak. He is 13-4-2 general this season, and the victory moved him inside one in all tying Dominik Hasek for fifteenth place in NHL historical past (389). Quick is three wins from tying Ryan Miller for many amongst American-born goaltenders at 391.
Evans opened the scoring together with his fourth purpose of the season, beating Quick at 14:29 of the primary.
Kreider tied it at 11:09 of the second. Shortly after he was denied on a breakway by Canadiens goaltender Sam Montembeault, Kreider rifled the puck into the Montreal web. Zibanejad and Jacob Trouba assisted.
Cuylle put the house workforce forward 2-1 together with his tenth purpose at 12:27. Fox and Ryan Lindgren assisted.
Zibanejad then prolonged the lead at 14:43 with a short-handed purpose. Fox and Panarin assisted as Zibanejad fired his seventeenth purpose of the season previous Montembault earlier than Kreider made it 4-1 on the facility play at 15:19 together with his second purpose of the night time.
Slafkovksy narrowed the deficit to 4-2 together with his twelfth purpose at 16:30 of the second.
Trocheck added his sixteenth at 4:23 of the third to revive the three-goal lead earlier than Caufield scored on the facility play at 6:53 to make it 5-3.
Kreider accomplished his sixth profession hat trick together with his twenty seventh purpose at 7:59, with assists to Zibanejad and Jimmy Vesey. The 32-year-old ahead has 292 profession objectives, third on the Rangers record behind Rod Gilbert (406) and Jean Ratelle (336).
Kakko elevated the result in 7-3 together with his sixth at 9:56 earlier than Caufield scored his second of the sport and nineteenth of the season at 11:27.
Rangers ahead Blake Wheeler injured his proper leg halfway by means of the primary interval and needed to be helped off the ice. New York later mentioned Wheeler was dominated out for the remainder of the sport with a lower-body damage.
The 37-year-old proper wing was knocked down alongside the boards by Montreal defenseman Jayden Struble behind the Canadiens web on the 11-minute mark. Wheeler fell backward and his proper leg bent at an unnatural angle.
He couldn’t put any weight on the leg when he tried to stand up and was assisted from the ice by teammates. A stretcher was ready simply contained in the runway.
UP NEXT
Rangers: Face the rival New York Islanders for the primary time this season in an out of doors sport Sunday afternoon in New Jersey.
Canadiens: Host the Washington Capitals on Saturday.
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