{"id":411966,"date":"2025-11-29T03:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/411966\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T03:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:09:21","slug":"rangers-cruise-past-bruins-to-complete-strong-two-game-road-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/411966\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers cruise past Bruins to complete strong two-game road sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 Less than a week removed from getting swept on the road, the Rangers rebounded with a two-game sweep of their own.<\/p>\n<p>The Blueshirts took advantage of two banged up Eastern Conference opponents this week, pulling one out over the Hurricanes on Wednesday before trouncing the Bruins, 6-2, Friday afternoon at TD Garden to extend their winning streak to three games.<\/p>\n<p>Both clubs \u2014 but especially the Bruins, who were without David Pastrnak, Charlie McAvoy, Pavel Zacha and Matej Bl\u00fcmel \u2014 may have been seriously hampered, but these were a notable pair of victories against teams toward the top of the conference.<\/p>\n<p>If they weren\u2019t able to best these teams in their current states, it would\u2019ve been a damning reflection on the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny time you go into two tough buildings and get wins, doesn\u2019t really matter who you\u2019re facing,\u201d said Carson Soucy, whose bullet one-timer in the first period gave the Rangers their first 2-0 lead going into the first intermission of the season. \u201cEveryone\u2019s kind of facing some injuries, obviously, with the shortened schedule. Just big going into two buildings and getting two wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37791979\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/new-york-rangers-celebrate-second-116345517.jpg\" alt=\"New York Rangers players celebrate a second-period goal.\" class=\"wp-image-37791979\"  \/>The Rangers celebrate a goal during their Nov. 28 win over the Bruins. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>While the 4-2 win in Raleigh, N.C. was more of a challenge, the Rangers dominated a Bruins lineup that could have been deployed in an exhibition game. Boston couldn\u2019t even get on the board until early in the third period, when Casey Mittelstadt tapped one in through some net-front chaos.<\/p>\n<p>One minute and 42 seconds later, however, Morgan Geekie got a stick on a Henri Jokiharju shot off a Bruins faceoff win to cut the Rangers\u2019 lead to two.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37791989\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/70-makes-save-new-york-116346058.jpg\" alt=\"Boston Bruins goaltender Joonas Korpisalo (70) making a save as New York Rangers left wing Artemi Panarin (10) looks for the rebound.\" class=\"wp-image-37791989\"  \/>Artemi Panarin attempts a shot during the Rangers\u2019 Nov. 28 win against the Bruins. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the expert take on the Blueshirts\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Rangers, a weekly Sports+ exclusive.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins upped their game in the final frame as the Rangers laid back a bit, but the visitors were able to clamp down. Alexis Lafreniere scored an empty-net goal before Vladislav Gavrikov deflected a Vincent Trocheck shot for the four-goal lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were controlling in the beginning, but after second period, we still lost our focus,\u201d Artemi Panarin said after his four-point effort (one goal, three assists). \u201cCan\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breaking the game open in the second period, the Rangers dumped 17 shots on Bruins goalie Joonas Korpisalo while limiting the home team to just five.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of Bruins high-sticking penalties, including a double minor on Hampus Lindholm, opened the door for the Rangers to pad their lead. They did not let the opportunity pass them by.<\/p>\n<p>Mika Zibanejad scored two power-play goals \u2014 45 seconds apart \u2014 to give his team a 4-0 lead going into the second intermission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe power play, obviously, was the difference maker in the game,\u201d head coach Mike Sullivan said. \u201cBut, I thought after [they outplayed us early in the second period], we responded. It happened a couple of times in the game, beginning of the third, everything we talked about in between periods, we tried to set out to do. We really didn\u2019t. And that was playing a simplified game and playing straight ahead and making them have to go 200 feet to work to get their scoring chances. That\u2019s the challenge when you get up with a four-goal lead going into the third period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re almost guarding against human nature where you want to exhale and you can\u2019t in today\u2019s game. \u2026 I thought after they scored, we started to respond again and started to play the game that we wanted to play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 Less than a week removed from getting swept on the road, the Rangers rebounded with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":411967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[28589,3103,49263,1302,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-411966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-artemi-panarin","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-mika-zibanejad","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411966","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=411966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}