Alexis Lafreniere ends playoff goal drought in big way in Rangers’ win
NY Post
Alexis Lafreniere made his first significant impact in the regular season, and now the 2020 first-overall pick is working on the playoffs.
With two goals in the Rangers’ riveting 4-3 double-overtime victory in Game 2 against the Hurricanes on Tuesday night at the Garden, Lafreniere was an offensive pistol after going without a goal in the first round against the Capitals.
“It’s just a continuation of his regular season,” head coach Peter Laviolette said. “There’s good chemistry on that line. It has not been touched the entire year. Haven’t moved any pieces in or out in different directions.
“He was going tonight. When a player is going and you can see it — and I saw it — you want him out there more. You can find time, you can double shift him, you can find some extra minutes for him.
“That’s the same way of the regular season. I think he’s taken the regular season and the confidence he got from that he’s brought it into the postseason.”
Lafreniere became just the second Ranger in the past 15 years to score multiple goals in a playoff game at age 22 or younger, joining Filip Chytil, who did so twice in 2022.
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