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    Post by jedi17 Tue 07 Mar 2017, 4:29 pm

    Game 66: NYR 1 TB 0 OT, Raanta steals one, Glass fights, Clendening sits
    March 7, 2017, 8:32 AM ET [297 Comments]
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    The Rangers found a way. More precisely, Antti Raanta provided that way, enabling New York to escape Tampa with a 1-0 overtime win, thanks Mike Zibanejad's game winner with 1:04 remaining. New York gets no time to enjoy the victory, as they head down the coast to face the Panthers tonight.

    As NHL.com noted, Tampa Bay was 6-2-2 in its last 10 heading into Monday's game and just three points out of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference despite trading several pieces of its lineup prior to last week's trade deadline, including Ben Bishop, Brian Boyle and Valtteri Filppula. The Lightning came in to Monday's game off a 2-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres Saturday night and were 17-11-2 at home this season. What does the above mean? It meant that Tampa was a desperate team, trying to remain and move up in the playoff hunt, so the game had bigger implications for them than maybe New York.

    But the Rangers entered Monday's game at a cross roads. Called out by their coach for their lackluster and soft play, management decided to call up Tanner Glass to stir the pot. If you are going to call him up, then you have to play him, which is what AV did. In addition, Steven Kampfer was promoted, which as you will see didn't sit with Adam Clendening when he was sat for Kampfer last night.

    New York did display much better effort. Whether it was causation or correlation or mere happenstance driven by the game and the opponent, the Rangers were much more engaged. Glass did his part the set the tone, fighting Luke Wilkowski at 6:34 of the first period. But I am reluctant to say that one fight spurred the attitude adjustment. That's just fitting the one event into your broader remit, though maybe knowing he had their back did have some level of an impact. In addition, most of the game was marred by the opening of the penalty box for another call on the ice, creating a special team's game during which neither PP was able to capitalize.

    Antti Raanta started for New York and was absolutely spectacular between the pipes. He stopped all 38 shots he faced, including all 16 shots in the second period, to earn his 13th win and third shutout of the season. While there have been some bobbles along the way, because of Raanta and Henrik Lundqvist, the Rangers have allowed two goals or fewer in regulation in 13 of the last 21 games and in 39 games this season. In 18 starts this season Raanta 13-3-0 with a 2.03 goals against average and .933 save percentage. Look at those numbers and let them sink in. No imagine if they lose Raanta to Vegas in the expansion and the cost to acquire a new, good back up, regardless of Benoit Allaire's magic touch.
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