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THIRD PERIOD
0.0: Final shot count in the game was 28-27 for the Rangers.
1:13: Strome added an empty-net goal. | NYR 6, NJD 3
2:13: Nate Bastian’s shot from the left circle beat Georgiev short side to draw the Devils within a pair of goals. | NYR 5, NJD 3
11:22: Chytil had the puck at the hashmarks and backhanded the puck by Blackwood to move the Rangers in front by three. | NYR 5, NJD 2
19:20: A penalty to Johnsson put the Rangers back on the PP.
20:00: Period three will start soon.
SECOND PERIOD
0.0: Shots on goal in the second period were 12-9 for the Devils; 23-17 Rangers overall through 40 minutes.
6:00: Rangers killed off the penalty. Shots on goal were 7-5 for the Rangers in the period with six minutes left.
8:27: K’Andre Miller tripped up Pavel Zacha to give the Devils their first power play of the game.
12:35: Rangers went back to the power play after Ty Smith tripped up Adam Fox.
18:31: Dmitry Kulikov was called for holding, putting the Rangers back on the power play.
18:55: Just over a minute into the middle frame, a screened wrist shot from the point by Libor Hajek found its way past Blackwood to regain the Rangers’ two-goal lead. | NYR 4, NJD 2
20:00: Period two is underway.
FIRST PERIOD
0.0: After one, shots on goal were 14-5 for the Rangers.
2:54: Chytil backhanded the puck across the crease to Kevin Rooney, who quickly fired the puck past an outstretched Blackwood to put the Rangers back in the lead. | NYR 3, NJD 2
4:49: MALTSEV BEAUTY! Nate Bastian made a nice backhand feed to Mikhail Maltsev, who roofed the puck on the fly to tie the game up. | NJD 2, NYR 2
5:06: SUBBAN’S BLAST! P.K. Subban teed up a shot from the right point that flew over the blocker of Rangers starting goaltender Alexandar Georgiev just inside the post to put the Devils on the board. | NYR 2, NJD 1
Subomb!
🚨: Subban
🍎: Zacha
🍏: Bratt pic.twitter.com/VB0HeYrPFj— New Jersey Devils (@NJDevils) March 6, 2021
7:45: Filip Chytil broke in all alone but his breakaway shot was kicked away by Blackwood’s right pad.
8:35: Shots on goal were 7-2 for the Rangers with just over eight minutes to play.
12:45: Ryan Strome took a backhand feed from Chris Kreider and backhanded the puck high over Blackwood to double the Rangers lead. Devils had tried to clear the puck but Kreider intercepted it. | NYR 2, NJD 0
15:48: The Devils were able to kill off the second half of Vatanen’s minor.
17:54: After skating coast-to-coast, Adam Fox got in behind the Devils defense and fired it five-hole on Mackenzie Blackwood to put the Rangers on the board. | NYR 1, NJD 0
18:27: Sami Vatanen got his stick up high, drawing blood. Result was a double minor and four-minute Rangers power play.
20:00: Today’s game is underway.
DEVILS LINEUP
Bratt – Zacha – Gusev
Johnsson – Hughes – Kuokkanen
Bratt – Zajac – Palmieri
Sharangovich – Maltsev – Bastian
Smith – Severson
Kulikov – Subban
Butcher – Vatanen
Blackwood
OUT: Hischier (injured), Murray, Dell
RANGERS LINEUP
Lafreniere – Zibanejad – Buchnevich
Kreider – Strome – Kakko
Chytil – Rooney – Gauthier
Lemieux – Howeden – Blackwell
Lindgren – Fox
Miller – Smith
Johnson – Hajek
Georgiev
OUT: Bitetto, Di Giuseppe
DEVILS MINUTE
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