Filip Chytil scored twice and Brett Berard, Adam Fox and Ryan Lindgren every earned two assists to carry the visiting New York Rangers to a 6-2 rout of the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday.
Louis Domingue stopped 25 photographs for New York whereas 12 Rangers registered a degree to match a season excessive.
Backed by loads of offense, together with 5 straight objectives throughout one stretch, Domingue shined in his season debut. He joined the Rangers from AHL affiliate Hartford this week after Igor Shesterkin was positioned on injured reserve with an upper-body damage.
Blackhawks goaltender Arvid Soderblom made 28 saves for Chicago. The Blackhawks have misplaced six of seven.
Chicago grabbed a 1-0 lead at 5:37 of the primary interval, as Tyler Bertuzzi gathered a cross from Connor Bedard and snuck a snap shot previous Domingue. Bedard prolonged his career-best level streak to seven video games, lunging for a unfastened puck within the excessive slot and transferring towards the web earlier than discovering Bertuzzi within the crease.
The benefit lasted for lower than 10 minutes. New York netted the equalizer when Jonny Brodzinski despatched a wrist shot by means of site visitors and over the glove-side shoulder of Soderblom. Will Borgen gave the Rangers the lead for good at 18:22 of the primary interval, scoring unassisted on one other lengthy wrist shot after a Blackhawks turnover.
New York added three objectives within the second interval to grab management. Chytil began the surge at 3:28 earlier than Reilly Smith scored on a breakaway on the 9:54 mark, capitalizing on miscommunication among the many Blackhawks on the finish of a protracted shift.
Mika Zibanejad had the first help on Smith’s aim for the four-hundredth help of his profession.
Vincent Trocheck’s redirect of a protracted shot from Artemi Panarin made it 5-1 New York.
The Blackhawks drew one aim nearer on Wyatt Kaiser’s first profession aim with two minutes left within the second interval. Kaiser scored on a wrist shot from the excessive proper circle.
The Rangers restored a four-goal cushion at 8:36 of the third interval as Okay’Andre Miller’s shot deflected off Chytil, who’s on a four-game level streak, and previous Soderblom.
–Area Degree Media