The only blemish in the Rangers’ 5-1 Game 1 win was the five penalties they took. But the Rangers’ penalty kill rose to the challenge.
of their first-round playoff series Tuesday night in Newark was the five penalties they took, which gave the Devils four power-play opportunities and one penalty shot.
It is difficult to harp on that, however, when the Rangers’ penalty kill rose to the challenge in the way it did.Jack Hughes did make Jacob Trouba pay for a slash he unloaded on the Devils star center during a breakaway late in the third period, scoring on the subsequent penalty shot. Otherwise, however, goalie Igor Shesterkin and the Rangers were virtually impenetrable on the penalty kill.
“It was good to see, but at the same time, we don’t want to have to kill that many penalties,” said Chris Kreider, who championed the other side of special teams with two power-play goals. “Try to stay out of the box a little more, especially to start a game like that, it’s hard to kind of get the group in a flow. Staying out of the box allows us to do what we do at five-on-five and roll four lines.
The Rangers were called for three penalties in the first period alone, but their penalty-kill units forced the Devils to the outside and gave little time or space for anything to be generated.It wasn’t just in the way the Rangers prevented the Devils from scoring. It was the aggression with which their penalty killers willed the puck out of their zone and spit it back out up ice for a couple of shorthanded opportunities.
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