Rangers Weather the Hurricane

The Rangers beat the Carolina Hurricanes by a score of 5-3 last night. They are now on a 4 game winning streak, and will play the Tampa Bay Lightning Saturday night.

Thoughts-

• Anyone else notice Stepan didn't take any more faceoffs after he lost the one that lead to Carolina's first goal? He really needs to work on that. 
• Stepan redeemed himself later in the game with a pass to Gaborik, setting up the Avery goal. 
• I don't think anyone blamed Stepan for that first goal after the blocked that shot in the closing minute of the 3rd. It scared the hell out of me to see him crawling around on the ice like that. He didn't miss a shift though, even though he was grimacing the rest of the game. The Rangers tweeted that Stepan was "OK" and he was hobbling around the locker room. Hope he gets the day off tomorrow. 
• Speaking of blocked shots, Mitchell is a beast. He jumps right up after getting slammed in the face with the puck, and later says he was frustrated because "who wants to block a shot with your face?" Forget Torts and Avery, I wanna see this guy on 24/7. Going by the way he's playing, he might be able to stick with the Rangers far awhile. 
• Once again a great game by Gaborik. has there been a game this season where we haven't said that? He had 1 goal, 1 assist, and a great diving play in the end of the 3rd period to knock the puck out of the zone when Carolina had an extra skater. 
• Hagelin also had a great night, and got an assist on the Sauer goal, meaning he has a 4 game point streak, like Richards.
• The Rangers are really scoring up and down the roster, including the defense. Only 4 players didn;t record points. The Rangers scored 5 goals, so, if a different player had a goal or assist each time, 15 different players would have point. 14 Rangers did because Gaborik got a goal and an assist.