This week was uber important for the Rangers since they would be going up against three rivals over the course of four nights, and to the pleasure of the team and the fans, were able to sweep and win all three games. It was the Devils on Tuesday, the Islanders on Thursday and now the Flyers tonight. With that, the Rangers have now moved into first place in the Atlantic Division and second place in the Eastern Conference.
The opening period of this game was much quieter than I think many expected it to be. The Rangers didn’t completely have their legs after an up-tempo match with the New York Islanders just the night before, and it seemed like they were just sort of hanging in there for the first ten or so minutes. The Flyers weren’t completely on their game, either, but they were winning battles and getting more pucks to the net than New York. In the second half of the period, though, the Blueshirts picked up their play and ended up evening the shot count at 8 before the buzzer so...
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PLAYERS:
Derek Stepan,
Stu Bickel,
Ilya Bryzgalov,
Ruslan Fedotenko,
Anton Stralman,
Marian Gaborik,
Henrik Lundqvist,
Ryan Callahan,
Steve Eminger,
Jaromir Jagr,
Claude Giroux,
Michael Del Zotto
TEAMS: Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers, New York Islanders
TEAMS: Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers, New York Islanders
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