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An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Jason Robertson #21 of the Dallas Stars celebrates a goal against the New York Rangers during the third period at American Airlines Center on April 11, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. , Image 2 shows New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin (31) makes a glove save on a Dallas Stars shot during the second period at the American Airlines Center. <\/p>\n

DALLAS \u2013 The Rangers kept the third-best team in the NHL scoreless for nearly 53 minutes.<\/p>\n

Zero offense was generated by either team in the special teams game for a majority of the 60-minute contest, but the Stars came away with an empty-net-abetted 2-0 win after Jason Robertson was the first to make an impact by converting on Dallas\u2019 power play.<\/p>\n

A holding penalty against Matthew Robertson set the Stars up with their fourth man-advantage opportunity of the game.<\/p>\n

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Igor Shesterkin makes a glove save during the second period of the Rangers\u2019 2-0 loss to the Stars on April 11, 2026 at the American Airlines Center. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

An incensed Robertson argued former Ranger Colin Blackwell was holding his stick.<\/p>\n

The Robertson in green then collected a rebound and buried a backhander past Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin \u2013 for his 43rd goal of the season \u2013 with 7:11 left in regulation.<\/p>\n

The Rangers played this one to win, but the Stars won the special teams battle and, in turn, the two points.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think we\u2019re preaching to the players to stay in the moment. We got to do the same thing,\u201d head coach Mike Sullivan said in the morning, when asked if he\u2019s allowed himself to start thinking about next season while coaching these final games. \u201cSo, we\u2019re going to try to put our best game on the ice. We\u2019re going to look at that one challenge right in front of us, and we\u2019ll go through each experience as they come.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the process that we go through, and that\u2019s the journey we\u2019re on. There\u2019ll be a time when we\u2019ll look to turn the page, but right now is not the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

Jason Robertson (21) celebrates after scoring a third-period goal during the Rangers\u2019 loss to the Stars. Getty Images<\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t much space on the American Airline Center ice Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The Rangers limited the Stars to three shots in the first and six in the second, but the visitors were kept in the single digits themselves in each of the first two frames.<\/p>\n

It was more of a physical affair than anything else.<\/p>\n

Captains J.T. Miller and Jamie Benn dropped the gloves in the second period, after the latter landed a massive hit on Vladislav Gavrikov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Jason Robertson #21 of the Dallas Stars celebrates a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[1801,5,2273,2685,3733,1800,6883,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,33,4645,2099],"class_list":{"0":"post-551648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-colin-blackwell","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-igor-shesterkin","11":"tag-j-t-miller","12":"tag-jamie-benn","13":"tag-jason-robertson","14":"tag-matthew-robertson","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-rangers","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkrangers","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-rangers","21":"tag-the-rangers","22":"tag-the-stars","23":"tag-vladislav-gavrikov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116396360742017561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551648","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=551648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}