By ALLAN KREDA<\/p>\n
Jonny Brodzinski scored twice, Adam Sykora scored his first goal and Dylan Garand made 27 saves for his first NHL win as the New York Rangers downed the Chicago Blackhawks 6-1 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
J.T. Miller, Matthew Robertson and Alexis Lafreniere also scored as the Rangers snapped a six-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old Garand, who\u00a0made his debut Sunday\u00a0at home against Winnipeg, a 3-2 shootout loss, allowed only a goal by Chicago\u2019s Nick Lardis late in the first period.<\/p>\n
Chicago has lost four of its last five.<\/p>\n
Lardis finished off a passing play with Tyler Bertuzzi and Alex Vlasic late in the first. But Miller tied it less than a minute later with his 15th goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Sykora, who debuted in\u00a0Wednesday\u2019s 4-3 loss\u00a0at Toronto, beat Blackhawks goaltender Arvid Soderblom cleanly at 8:20 of the second. The 21-year-old Sykora was a second-round pick in 2022.<\/p>\n
Brodzinski scored 16:07 into the second period, then added his second of the game with 4 minutes left.<\/p>\n
The victory was just New York\u2019s fifth home win in regulation. New York is 10-18-7 at the Garden.<\/p>\n
Defenseman Drew Fortescue also made his Rangers debut. The 20-year-old defensemen \u2014 a third-round pick in 2023 \u2014- assisted on Brodzinski\u2019s second goal.<\/p>\n
Soderblom made 33 saves.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: Visit the New Jersey Devils on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Rangers: Host the Florida Panthers on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ALLAN KREDA Jonny Brodzinski scored twice, Adam Sykora scored his first goal and Dylan Garand made 27…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[521,3670,5,78,7287,4,36,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-526880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-dylan-garand","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-jets","12":"tag-jonny-brodzinski","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-rangers","15":"tag-winnipeg","16":"tag-winnipeg-jets","17":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116304591262088921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526880","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=526880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}