Friday night’s Original Six matchup between the Rangers and Canadiens featured a little bit of everything: A lot of scrapping, a few shots that rang off the posts and a lot of stuff you don’t regularly see.
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Take this sequences from the Ranger goalie:
Let’s run down the really weird things that happened there:
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- He leaves his crease to chase Max Pacioretty like Rocky Balboa chasing a chicken. Incredibly aggressive play that shows him end up behind his own net.
2. He loses his stick somewhere in the corner, and finishes the rest of the play without it.
He dodges bodies like DMs from an ex on his way back to the crease.
He takes a shot off the chest like Happy Gilmore in the batting cages.
He ends up with the puck in glove.
All in all, a crazy sequence from “The King,” even if the Rangers fell to the Canadiens in OT. He finished with a career-high 54 playoff saves.
New York and Montreal are knotted at one game apiece with the series shifting to New York on Sunday — hopefully there are more games like this one left in the series.
