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11/24 20:52 CST Lafreniere scores go-ahead goal and Rangers snap 4-game skid
with 3-2 win over Blues
Lafreniere scores go-ahead goal and Rangers snap 4-game skid with 3-2 win over
Blues
By ALLAN KREDA
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) --- Alexis Lafreniere scored the go-ahead goal early in the third
period and Igor Shesterkin made 20 saves as the New York Rangers snapped a
four-game skid with a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues on Monday night.
Lafreniere put the puck past Blues netminder Joel Hofer 40 seconds into the
final period for his fifth goal this season.
Vincent Trocheck and Adam Edstrom also scored for the Rangers, who won for just
the second time in 10 home games. New York is 2-7-1 at Madison Square Garden.
Vladislav Gavrikov and Adam Fox each had two assists.
Dylan Holloway and Brayden Schenn scored for St. Louis, and Hofer made 17 saves.
Holloway opening the scoring late in the first period.
Trocheck tied it midway through the second, taking a pass from Jonny Brodzinski
and firing the puck past Hofer for his fourth goal.
After Lafreniere made it 2-1, Edstrom increased the lead with 11:04 left in the
third. Schenn got the Blues within 3-2 with 1:15 remaining.
The Rangers had to kill off a four-minute high-sticking penalty assessed to
Brett Berard in the third. Berard made his season debut following his recall
from Hartford of the AHL.
The Rangers (11-12-2) --- who played without injured captain J.T. Miller for
the second straight game --- are still last in the Metropolitan Division.
Up next
Blues: At New Jersey on Wednesday to conclude a five-game trip.
Rangers: At Carolina on Wednesday.
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