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MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – MacKenzie Weegar, Carter Verhaeghe and Anthony Duclair scored successful the 3rd play to rally the Florida Panthers past the New York Rangers 4-3 connected Wednesday nighttime arsenic some teams returned from an extended vacation break.
Artemi Panarin had a extremity and 2 assists for the Rangers. Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider besides scored for New York. Igor Shesterkin, backmost successful the nett aft missing 8 games with a lower-body injury, made 28 saves.
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Anton Lundell besides scored for Florida, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 31 shots.
Weegar fired a wrist changeable precocious to Shesterkin’s instrumentality broadside for his archetypal extremity of the season, tying it 2-all astatine 5:56 of the third.
Verhaeghe netted the go-ahead extremity with a wrist changeable from the near ellipse astatine 10:31.
Duclair’s goal, his 10th, gave the Panthers a 4-2 vantage astatine 14:40.
Kreider scored astatine 19:15 aft the Rangers pulled Shesterkin for an other skater.
It was the Panthers’ archetypal crippled successful 13 days and the Rangers’ archetypal successful 12 pursuing the NHL’s extended Christmas interruption due to the fact that of rising COVID-19 cases.
The Rangers went up 2-1 astatine 12:43 of the 2nd play erstwhile Zibanejad scored his eighth extremity by firing successful a provender from Panarin.
Lundell scored disconnected a rebound to necktie it 1-all astatine 5:09 of the second. It was the rookie’s sixth goal.
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Panarin scored his 10th extremity to springiness the Rangers a 1-0 pb astatine 11:08 of the first. Panarin, shadowed by defenseman Aaron Ekblad arsenic helium skated toward the net, pulled the puck betwixt his legs earlier slipping a brushed backhand past Bobrovsky.
NOTES: Six of 7 Panthers who had been successful COVID-19 protocol returned. Sam Bennett, Ekblad, Radko Gudas, Ryan Lomberg, Brandon Montour and Verhaeghe each played. Frank Vatrano was scratched.
Florida besides welcomed backmost Aleksander Barkov, Maxim Mamin, and Mason Marchment from injuries, and Gus Forsling from a non-COVID-19 illness.
New York manager Gerard Gallant coached the Panthers for parts of 3 seasons (2014-16) and led them to an Atlantic Division rubric successful 2015-16.
Panarin has a nine-game constituent streak (three goals, 13 assists) vs. the Panthers.
New York had been 10-0-3 erstwhile starring aft 2 periods.
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