Panarin and Lafreniere score, Shesterkin makes 40 saves as Rangers beat Senators 2-1

NEW YORK -- Artemi Panarin and Alexis Lafreniere scored, Igor Shesterkin stopped 40 shots and nan New York Rangers hit nan Ottawa Senators 2-1 connected Friday night.

Panarin scored his team-best seventh extremity 3:03 into nan game, beating Senators goalie Linus Ullmark pinch a debased shot. Alexis Lafreniere made it 2-0 connected nan powerfulness play astatine 2:56 of nan 3rd pinch his 5th goal.

Shesterkin kept nan Senators astatine bay until Adam Gaudette scored pinch 7:32 remaining successful nan third. Gaudette one-timed a cross-ice walk from Brady Tkachuk for his 5th extremity of nan season.

Shesterkin improved to 5-2-1 arsenic nan Rangers rebounded from Tuesday’s 5-3 nonaccomplishment astatine Washington, which was only New York’s 2nd regularisation nonaccomplishment this season.

Ullmark made 16 saves for nan Senators.

Rangers: The Rangers improved to 3-1-1 astatine home. They are 4-1-0 connected nan road.

Senators: Ottawa fell to 1-4-0 connected nan road. The Senators are 4-1-0 astatine home.

Shesterkin denied high-scoring guardant Claude Giroux pinch a spectacular point-blank mitt prevention pinch 2:48 near successful nan 2nd period. He besides stopped Josh Norris doubly during a third-period powerfulness play and made a sliding pad prevention connected defenseman Nick Jensen pinch conscionable complete 4 minutes near successful nan third.

Panarin has points successful 9 of 10 games and leads nan Rangers pinch 16 points. The 33-year-old Russian guardant led nan Rangers pinch 120 points — including a career-best 49 goals — past season.

Senators big Seattle connected Saturday, and nan Rangers big nan New York Islanders connected Sunday.

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