Will Cuylle scored the tiebreaking goal midway through the third period, Igor Shesterkin made 27 saves and the New York Rangers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 2-1 on Thursday night for their sixth straight win.
also scored for the Rangers, who have eight wins in their first 10 games for the second time in franchise history. The 8-2-0 start is second only to a 9-1-0 mark to begin the 1983-84 season.“I saw him kind of pinch down the wall and get the puck and then I saw a little lane,'' Cuylle said of the play that led to his winning goal. “I tried to sprint to the back post and he made a great pass to find me.
“He's been really good. I like his speed and physicality,'' Laviolette said of the 21-year-old Cuylle, a second-round draft pick in 2020. ”That's obviously a big goal at the right time — in the third period. It gets us a win."Shesterkin made 12 saves in the third to preserve the win, his sixth in eight games this season.
The Rangers had five power-plays, keeping the Hurricanes off-balance for stretches of the tight game.New York has won 10 of their last 14 regular-season games against the Hurricanes and the Rangers are 19-4-0 in their last 23 contests against Carolina at home. Kreider opened the scoring for the Rangers on the power-play at 2:41 of the first. Kreider converted a backhand pass from Panarin after the Hurricanes were assessed a bench minor for too-many-men. It was Kreider's seventh of the season — fifth on a power play.
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