Struggling Rangers pick up much-needed win over lowly Sabres
NY Post
BUFFALO — Lately, the Rangers have been finding ways to lose instead of finding ways to win.
In a low-event game between two spiraling teams, however, Igor Shesterkin and the Blueshirts defended a one-goal lead for a majority of the 60-minute affair before surviving the Sabres’ third-period push to take a 3-2 victory on Wednesday night at KeyBank Center.
The Rangers avoided a third straight loss, while also handing the Sabres their eighth in a row.
“They needed a win, too, so you knew you were going to get a good game from them, a competitive game,” head coach Peter Laviolette said. “I thought our guys played well.”
Shesterkin picked up his first win since signing an NHL-record-setting contract for a goaltender — eight years at $11.5 million per year — this past weekend. Stopping 29 of the 31 shots he faced, the star Russian netminder improved to 10-10-1 on the season.
The Sabres, sitting in fifth place in the Atlantic Division, did miss the net a lot.
Will Cuylle did not get a second of power-play ice time through the Rangers’ pair of man advantages and Will Cuylle did not get on the ice after Igor Shesterkin was pulled late in Monday’s 2-1 Garden defeat to the last-overall Blackhawks.
In the span of 48 hours this past weekend, Igor Shesterkin became both the highest-paid goaltender in NHL history and a father of two.
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