WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) \u2014 Alexis Lafreniere had a goal and an assist to lead the New York Rangers to a 6-3 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Adam Edstrom, Gabe Perreault, Tye Kartye and Adam Fox also scored, and Noah Laba added an empty-net goal for New York, which scored five goals on only 16 shots. Igor Shersterkin stopped 24 shots.<\/p>\n
Gabriel Vilardi, Kyle Connor and Isak Rosen scored for Winnipeg. Connor Hellebuyck made 11 saves as the Jets slipped to 3-2 on their eight-game homestand.<\/p>\n
The Rangers scored goals 4:11 apart in the third to take a 5-3 lead. Perreault gave New York the edge when he shoveled the puck past Hellebuyck at 6:57. Edstrom beat Hellebuyck from in front at 11:08.<\/p>\n
The Rangers led 1-0, 2-1, 3-2 and 4-3. Every time Winnipeg tied the score, New York re-took the lead, taking advantage of getting players in front of the net.<\/p>\n
The Rangers opened the scoring 68 seconds into the game. Only nine seconds after Winnipeg\u2019s Gabe Vilardi took a hooking penalty, Fox scored on a shot from the blue line.<\/p>\n
Rosen tied it at 1 early in the second with his first goal as a member of the Jets, deflecting a shot from the point past Shesterkin.<\/p>\n
Lafreniere gave New York a 2-1 lead when he deflected a point shot from Will Borgen past Hellebuyck.<\/p>\n
Connor tied it at 2 late in the second, taking a pass from Mark Schiefele, then beating Fox and lifting the puck over Shesterkin.<\/p>\n
New York took a 3-2 lead early in the third when Kartye deflected a pass from Matthew Robertson past Hellebuyck 1:15 into the period.<\/p>\n
Vilardi made it 3-all about three minutes after New York had taken the lead, scoring on a backhanded shot off an Adam Lowry rebound.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
Jets: Host Colorado on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Rangers: At Minnesota on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) \u2014 Alexis Lafreniere had a goal and an assist to lead the New York Rangers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[304,5,78,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-500978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-alexis-lafreniere","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-rangers","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkrangers","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-rangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116220935658070320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500978","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=500978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}