Deep inside we knew it, that the New York Rangers will not give up. They proved it before a national audience with a stirring come from behind win over the Boston Bruins.
There is no quit in the New York Rangers. Time and time again this season they have responded to adversity and they will continue to do it until the roster is gutted in the next 19 days. They have gone into the third period trailing in 24 games this season. For the fifth time they came back and won.
How did they do it? The Zibanejad line led the way, yet again, but this time they got goals from Kevin Hayes and Filip Chytil, a future former Ranger and the Ranger of the future. In the shootout the scorers were ZIbanejd and Tony DeAngelo, both big parts of the future of the this team.
After a late first period Zibanejad goal gave them the lead, the Rangers fell asleep in the second period and the Bruins scored three goals in less than five minutes. Going into the third period down two goals the expectations were slim until Kevin Hayes got them within a goal with ten minutes to go.
But it took an ill-advised crosschecking penalty against Charlie McAvoy after a brilliant shift by the ZIbanejad line to get the Rangers to the power play and it was Filip Chytil who scored the tying goal off the rebound of a Pavel Buchnevich shot.