{"id":363722,"date":"2025-11-08T04:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363722\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T04:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:16:42","slug":"noah-laba-delivers-in-michigan-homecoming-to-help-rangers-beat-red-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363722\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Laba delivers in Michigan homecoming to help Rangers beat Red Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT \u2014 Growing up in a western suburb of Detroit, Noah Laba frequented Red Wings games at the old Joe Louis Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Friday night against that very team, the rookie scored the game-winning goal to help secure a 4-1 win for the Rangers in front of a Little Caesars Arena crowd that included 30-plus members of his friends and family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to really explain,\u201d Laba said of his emotions after the game. \u201cTo be able to score in this building in the National Hockey League is pretty special.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This was a feel-good win for more reasons than just Laba\u2019s dream homecoming.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Rangers posted four goals or more for the sixth time this season, scoring twice in the third period to run away with a game they controlled for a majority of the 60 minutes. <\/p>\n

Key players returned to the scoresheet and the team stayed poised from start to finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Artemi Panarin \u2014 a bit lighter after shaving his curls off again<\/a> \u2014 snapped a career-long streak of six games without a point with a three-point effort in the victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re scored his second goal of the season and the first in 12 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Detroit Red Wings right wing Patrick Kane (88) attempts to score a goal as New York Rangers defenseman Braden Schneider (4), defenseman Carson Soucy (24) and goaltender Jonathan Quick (32) defend the net during the second period at Little Caesars Arena. Tim Fuller-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

And goalie Jonathan Quick picked up his third straight win behind a 32-save performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All it took was getting away from Madison Square Garden, where the team is still winless through six games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur best players were our best players,\u201d Rangers head coach Mike Sullivan said. \u201cI think that\u2019s an important element of the game tonight. These guys, they care a lot. I\u2019ve been saying that for a while now. They care a lot. It hasn\u2019t been for a lack of effort that we haven\u2019t generated the offense from a goal-scoring standpoint. I think they\u2019re very capable and they showed that tonight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

With three goals and two assists so far, Laba has brought a strong presence to the Rangers lineup through his first 15 NHL games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As his experience grows, so does his confidence and comfort with the puck. Sullivan has rather quickly entrusted Laba with more ice time and special teams responsibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Detroit Red Wings center Marco Kasper, left, and New York Rangers center Noah Laba chase the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

As Vincent Trocheck missed his 13th straight game on long-term injured reserve with an upper-body injury, the Rangers have benefited greatly from Laba\u2019s ability to step up and fill some of the void left by No. 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Rangers\u2019 power play, on an 0-for-12 skid in the previous five games, opened the scoring with just its fifth goal of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After getting promoted to the first power-play unit in practice Thursday, Will Cuylle wristed home a slick cross-ice pass from Mika Zibanejad for his third goal of the season and just the fifth man-advantage goal of his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Red Wings, however, responded less than five minutes later. J.T. Compher buried a feed from Mason Appleton behind the Rangers net to tie it up at one-all. <\/p>\n

Still, the visitors held an impressive 5-1 edge in high-danger chances through the first 20 minutes on the way to finishing with a 17-4 advantage, according to Natural Stat Trick<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New York Rangers left wing Will Cuylle (50) celebrates his goal during the first period against the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Jonathan Quick of the New York Rangers celebrates the win against the Detroit Red Wings with teammates during the third period at Little Caesars Arena on November 7, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Just as the Rangers second power play of the evening expired, Panarin found Lafreni\u00e8re by the back post. Lafreni\u00e8re then chipped the puck in front to Laba, who flipped it in to retake the lead for the Rangers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Rangers slowed the pace as they comfortably skated with a lead. Panarin later whipped his third goal of the season past Red Wings goalie (and former Ranger) Cam Talbot off a feed from Zibanejad before Lafreni\u00e8re capped the scoring in the third period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked if shaving his head was really the reason for breaking out of his funk Friday night, Panarin couldn\u2019t help but smile.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope so,\u201d the star Russian wing said. \u201cJust one game. It\u2019s not like [it] makes me a better hockey player, but more ugly, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 Growing up in a western suburb of Detroit, Noah Laba frequented Red Wings games at the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":363723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,28589,2993,405,403,1302,5226,5225,293,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,1300],"class_list":{"0":"post-363722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-artemi-panarin","10":"tag-detroit-red-wings","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-rangers","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-will-cuylle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115512146907516720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}