ST. LOUIS — After the Rangers won a high-scoring and emotional affair against the Lightning at the Garden the previous night, Thursday night’s matchup with the Blues didn’t have any high-stakes feel to it.
Still, the Rangers’ power play came up clutch and tied the game on two separate occasions to secure at least one point before Blues forward Kasperi Kapanen scored 1:16 into overtime to hand the visitors a 3-2 loss at Enterprise Center.
It was an uneventful contest in which there were no injury scares, which is always a positive at this time of year for teams that are playoff bound. The Rangers have just three games remaining until the end of the regular season.
“It might be the first time in my career I’ve done a back-to-back in different conferences,” captain Jacob Trouba said after the loss, which put the Rangers four points behind the Devils, who are now within one of the first-place Hurricanes after their win over the Blue Jackets on Thursday. “Getting in late, it was obviously an emotional game [Wednesday] night for a lot of our guys. Big win for us. I don’t want to make excuses, but obviously tough to come in here with little sleep and turn it around. I thought there was an effort there.”
In his return to St. Louis for the first time since the Blues traded him to New York on Feb. 9, Vladimir Tarasenko knotted the game at one-all with a power-play goal early in the third period.
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The Blues managed to regain the lead off a goal from Tyler Pitlick later in the frame.
After Mika Zibanejad drew a slashing call on Justin Faulk, however, Vincent Trocheck swept in a six-on-four man-advantage tally for the Rangers to ultimately force overtime.
“The power play was good,” head coach Gerard Gallant said. “It wasn’t a great game, obviously. It was sort of one of those games where there wasn’t a lot of energy with our group.”
The Blues, who were eliminated from playoff contention earlier this month for the first time since 2017-18, happen to be one of just two teams Rangers goalie Jaroslav Halak hasn’t defeated in his NHL career.
The other is the Seattle Kraken, which Halak has not faced since the club’s inception last season. Halak finished with 18 saves in the loss, his ninth of the season.
Artemi Panarin handed the Blues the first goal of the game at the eight-minute mark of the second period, when Alexey Toropchenko stripped the puck from the Russian wing and buried it at the other end of the ice.
There was a little too much puck handling and zone circling by Panarin, who had some trouble with the same thing while adjusting his game to the playoff style last year.
“I just see Vladi, because I wanted him to score tonight,” Panarin said of the play. “I [saw] he [was] too high, he was too high for a goal I think. I tried to go lower with [the] puck and give [it to] him, try to find him lower. I made a mistake, go other way, goal, my bad.”
The Rangers were forced to dress 11 forwards and seven defensemen again with Patrick Kane sidelined for a second straight game with a lower-body injury. Holding Kane out again was out of “precaution,” according to Gallant.
Kane did come on the trip, however, so he could be an option for Saturday’s matchup in Columbus.
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