The Good: Rangers special teams ruled the roost in the second period with two shorthanded goals. Hagelin with the first goal, starting with a nice pass by Eminger along the glass which wound up right on Hagelin's stick who zoomed up along left wing with Dubinsky on a 2 on 2, and with the defenseman cheating slightly toward Dubinsky, Hagelin roofed it over Enroth's glove hand as he was going to his pads. The Rangers second goal was simply a case of hard work on Callahan's part, picking off Christian Ehroff's pass at the point, running down ice, and with his back turned to Ehroff somehow sneaks the puck under Enroth's pads. The Rangers kept rolling in the third period on Hagelin's second of the night, Biron left the puck off for Del Zotto behind the net who quickly passed the puck left wing to Hagelin while the Sabres were in the middle of a line change and Hagelin beat Enroth again with a well placed wrister to the glove side. Gaborik completed the scoring at 17:26 of the third period with a PP goal after Mitchell leaves Gaborik the puck in the high slot and Gaborik lays into a shot and beats Enroth high glove off the crossbar for his 14th of the year.
The Bad: Buffalo's lone goal tied the game up at 1, following a bad turnover by Gaborik at Buffalo's blueline, Vanek raced up ice and following a give and go with Pominville, Vanek blasted a shot past Biron 64 seconds after the first Ranger goal. Gaborik was subsequently benched by Torts for the remainder of the second period.
The Ugly: I hope the injury bug that plagued the Rangers last season isn't starting to come out of hibernation. Hopefully McDonagh and Anisimov are OK. McDonagh came back but Artie did not so we'll see tomorrow for the Ranger game against Florida back in NYC if both guys are able to play. The Rangers controlled the play for most of the first period but were unable to bury one. I thought the Rangers may have been a little fortunate to be ahead after the second period, following a couple short handed Ranger goals. As we like to see, the Rangers were able to step on the throat of their opponent in the third period, shut down Buffalo's offense and put in two insurance goals of their own. The Rangers are back at it again tomorrow night against the southeast division leading Florida Panthers.
How awesome is Carl Hagelin?!?!?!
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