The Rangers started the game with their fourth line and had a much better start than they did the night before in Washington. Through the first half of the opening period, the Rangers were moving the puck well, maintaining much better possession than they had at any point the night prior and seemed to have more of an identity to their play.
Just as Joe Micheletti was saying on the broadcast that he would like to see the Rangers shoot the puck more frequently, Ryan Lindgren dumped the puck into the zone which took a crazy bounce off the boards. With Pheonix Copley already headed behind the net to play the puck, the redirect resulted in the puck ending up right in front of the wide open net. The Kings would be able to settle it down but a pretty good scoring chance for the Rangers off of the fortunate bounce.
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