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New York Rangers center Vincent Trocheck (16) shoots the puck past Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Stuart Skinner (74) during a shootout in an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in New York. Associated Press<\/p>\n
NEW YORK \u2014 Vincent Trocheck scored the shootout winner and Igor Shesterkin made 31 saves and the New York Rangers rallied to defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 Saturday.<\/p>\n
After an overtime in which each team had several good scoring chances, Trocheck beat Penguins goaltender Stuart Skinner with the only goal of the shootout as the Rangers snapped a five-game losing streak. Shesterkin made five saves in overtime.<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad and Taylor Raddysh also scored for the Rangers. The last-place Rangers are 7-15-5 at home this season.<\/p>\n
Anthony Mantha and defenseman Ryan Shea scored for the Penguins, who had their two-game winning streak stopped. Pittsburgh is 8-1-2 since Jan. 17.<\/p>\n
Mantha beat Shesterkin at 2:08 of the first with his 21st goal of the season. Shea made it 2-0 at 1:59 of the second with his fourth goal.<\/p>\n
Zibanjead scored his team-leading 24th goal on the power play at the 10-minute mark of the second.<\/p>\n
Raddysh tied it with his ninth at 2:57 of the third with assists to Vladislav Gavrikov and Brendan Brisson. It was Brisson\u2019s first point as a Ranger.<\/p>\n
Forward Tye Kartye, claimed off waivers from Seattle on Friday, made his Rangers debut.<\/p>\n
Shesterkin made his second straight start since returning for Thursday\u2019s 3-2 home overtime loss to Philadelphia. Shesterkin had suffered a lower-body injury suffered on Jan. 5<\/p>\n
Skinner made 23 saves in defeat.<\/p>\n
The Penguins under first-year head coach Dan Muse \u2013 a former Rangers assistant \u2014 lead the Rangers by 20 points in the Metropolitan Division.<\/p>\n
The Rangers, coached by former Penguins coach Mike Sullivan, are last at 23-29-7.<\/p>\n
The Penguins were without captain Sidney Crosby who suffered a lower-body injury at the Winter Olympics in Milan. The 38-year-old center leads Pittsburgh with 27 goals and 59 points. He is expected to miss four weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Rangers center Vincent Trocheck (16) shoots the puck past Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Stuart Skinner (74) during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[12526,12518,12513,12533,12539,12541,12087,12521,12519,1155,12520,12525,12516,12538,12532,12515,12536,12524,12514,5,12527,997,12540,12530,40,4,12517,118,562,12531,1469,100,5216,1011,12522,12535,12534,12523,9809,12529,12528,12537],"class_list":{"0":"post-480091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-bruin","9":"tag-butler","10":"tag-butler-eagle","11":"tag-cabot","12":"tag-callery","13":"tag-cherry-valley","14":"tag-community-news","15":"tag-connoquenessing","16":"tag-cranberry","17":"tag-crime","18":"tag-east-butler","19":"tag-eau-claire","20":"tag-education-news","21":"tag-evans-city","22":"tag-fairview","23":"tag-government-news","24":"tag-harmony","25":"tag-harrisville","26":"tag-high-school-sports-news","27":"tag-hockey","28":"tag-karns-city","29":"tag-local-news","30":"tag-mars","31":"tag-mount-chesnut","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-nhl","34":"tag-obituaries","35":"tag-penguins","36":"tag-pennsylvania","37":"tag-petrolia","38":"tag-pittsburgh","39":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","40":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","41":"tag-political-news","42":"tag-portersville","43":"tag-sarver","44":"tag-saxonburg","45":"tag-slippery-rock","46":"tag-valencia","47":"tag-west-liberty","48":"tag-west-sunbury","49":"tag-zelienople"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}