Assist and two Russian goals help Rangers defeat Columbus in NHL game
The New York Rangers defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets in the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season game. This is reported by the correspondent of “Lenta.ru”.
The meeting was held in New York and ended with the score 6:2. The victory for the hosts was brought by two goals of Russian players Vladimir Tarasenko and Artemy Panarin. Panarin also made an assist. The team’s Russian goalkeeper Igor Shesterkin saved 28 shots out of 30 and won his 34th victory in the 2022/2023 season. He was recognized as the first star of this match.
As part of the Columbus, the Russian Kirill Marchenko scored an abandoned puck. He hit the opponents’ goal for the second game in a row. In total, he has 23 points in the “goal plus pass” system in 50 meetings of the season.
On September 5 last year, 26-year-old Shesterkin was ranked second in the ranking of the best goalkeepers in the NHL. On the first line is the two-time Stanley Cup winner, the Russian goalkeeper of the Tampa Bay Lightning Andrey Vasilevsky. In fifth place is the Olympic champion in the Russian team Ilya Sorokin, who defends the gates of the New York Islanders.
Source: Lenta
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