The New York Rangers hoped to find their first win on a three-game road trip in Ottawa. They’re still searching after losing 6-3 to the Senators.
- New York Rangers 6 (27-27-5 59 pts.)
- Ottawa Senators 3 (21-27-9 51 pts.)
- NYR Goal Scorers: Grabner (24), Zibanejad (17) PPG, Grabner (25)
- OTT Goal Scorers: Stone (19), Oduya (4), Duchene (15), Brassard (17), Chabot (5), Paajarvi (4)
- Final, Boxscore
- Venue: Canadian Tire Centre
It only took 51 seconds—51 seconds—for the New York Rangers to fall behind 1-0. The season-long mistakes were once again magnified as the Rangers trailed throughout. Henrik Lundqvist was pulled in the third period for rookie Brandon Halverson, who was making his first career NHL appearance. The Senators had no trouble in this one as they handed the Rangers their third loss in a row, winning 6-3.
Ottawa opens the scoring a minute into the game as Mark Stone scores.
Johnny Oduya scores top shelf to give the Senators a 2-0 lead.
Michael Grabner puts the Rangers on the board as the Blueshirts trailed 2-1.
Matt Duchene scores on a beautiful deflection from a Cody Ceci pass to give the Senators a 3-1 lead.
Mika Zibanejad scores a power-play goal to get the Rangers within one.
Derick Brassard gets one past his former teammate to give the senators another two-goal lead 4-2.
Thomas Chabot gets a wraparound past Lundqvist. This ended the night for Lundqvist as he was pulled for Halverson.
Michael Grabner scored his second of the game and 25th of the year to make it 5-3, but the Senators scored the last goal of the game, a goal that appeared to be goaltender interference, but was still allowed.
The Rangers are back on the ice tomorrow afternoon against the Philadelphia Flyers at 12 p.m. ET on NBC.
