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barkov tried to find it. Now a chance for reinhart. Shesterkin thrown back in front. Barkov with a shot that goes wide. Trouba tried to play it away. Tarasenko dropped his stick. He gets it back. Now checked by trouba. Penalty coming up to the rangers though. It will be a tripping call right inside the circle. Or interference maybe. One of the two. Either way florida power play. >> Garry: barclay goodrow will head to the box. >> Referee: new york rangers number 21, two minutes interference. >> Garry: for interference as you see reinhart, he gets caught -- he's a right-hand shot. So it's a little bit tougher. Couldn't really get good wood on it to get it up and over. We heard kelly hrudey say if you have enough patience to get it up quickly, and the good goal scorers do, and reinhart couldn't get it done. He's as good as they come as goodrow's not happy with the call. He doesn't think it was more than just barkov losing his balance. And because it's barkov, the penalty was called. >> John: worked around in the corner. Lundell has got it. Played in front. Knocked away by zibanejad. He'll clear it off and ekman-larsson has to go back for florida to retrieve it. Ekman-larsson plays it up ahead for bennett at centre. Got it across. It's sent back to the net. Up the boards. Lundell stops it. Anton lundell forced by kreider. Moves it over to bennett. Gets it back for ekman-larsson. Bennett dumps it around behind the net. Grabbed by rodrigues. Rodrigues waiting with it. Comes out. Tried a shot and missed. Bennett grabs it off the glass. Has to reach for it at the line. Can't hold it in. Rodrigues for bennett. Bennett throws it towards the net. Lundell tried to get a piece of it. Back up the boards for bennett. Hands it across. Carter verhaeghe drags, shoots, scores! Carter verhaeghe with a power-play goal right along the ice and in, and the panthers have tied it at one. >> Garry: late in the period, too. Those are normally really big boosters as the MPPs find a -- the florida panthers find a way to solve the new york rangers' penalty killing. The puck movement is quick, but verhaeghe is alone when he fakes the shot. Once he fakes the shot, wennberg goes down and he gets out of position kneeling and actually leaning to his right. So verhaeghe takes advantage of that. And simply sliding it on the ice. Who's in front? Rodrigues providing the screen. You needed to score goals at this level. But at the end of the day, an aggressive rangers' penalty kill, and usually there's one area of the ice where the greggs starts. If it's on -- the aggression starts. On the half wall the first penalty killer will go and the other ones are on the way to the other locations. If you mess it up and it gets open, verhaeghe can be wide open in the middle and wennberg fails to get in the shooting lane and we have a tie game. >> John: eighth of the playoffs for verhaeghe. Goals in back-to-back games. Eight-point streak. Panarin tried to chop it out. Couldn't. Lindgren turns away from verhaeghe and got it up ahead at centre. Lafreniere is on it. Thrown towards the net where he can't get a stick on it and the pass from fox. Fox on it again trying to get it in front. Tkachuk turns it up ice. In behind verhaeghe. Down it goes. And verhaeghe will be first on it so no icing. Gustafsson goes after it. Verhaeghe played it around and panarin got it to the point. Picked up by reinhart. Thrown towards the net and that one just goes wide. Forsling fires. Oh, that was off the skate of gustafsson in front and -- >> Announcer: last minute of play in the first period. >> John: tarasenko tied up along the boards. Fox bumps into reinhart. Tarasenko tried to play it back for barkov off a stick and forsling will turn back with it. Ekblad from centre dumps it in. Schneider around the goal and k'andre miller gets it up the wing. Ekblad played it back down low. Gustafsson around for roslovic. Pass to centre for panarin. He'll feed it back into his own end. Gustafsson up for wennberg. Tried to tip it in. Can't get it by forsling. Luostarinen hands it back for ekblad. Played over to forsling. Bouncing puck chopped away. Bennett will carry it in. Here's bennett. Tees it up. That goes wide. Kulikov from the point. Worked it back for bennett. His shot is blocked. Wennberg got it away. That will do it for period number one. >> Garry: real good finish for the florida panthers. They draw a penalty. They take full advantage of it. And we'll see gustafsson here on the shot that comes from the point. It goes off his right skate and that nearly ended up in the back of the net.

that would have been a catastrophe if the rangers blew a 1-0 lead in the last few minutes of the first period and found themselves down 2-1 going to the locker room. Right now 1-1. A lot of work to be done here coming up in the next few periods. >> John: trocheck and verhaeghe the goal scorers in the first period. Ron, rick, kevin, and kelly coming up in our first intermission with the rangers outshooting the panthers 8-7 in a physical opening 20 minutes in new york where it's 1-1 on "hockey night in canada" and the stanley cup playoffs. I'm back back in the new york groove This period, brought to you by Scotiabank. with a new Scotia banking package. Sign up for Sportsnet+ and get six months free. Visit scotiabank.com/nevermisshockey Ram Power Days are here.The power to choose fromthe most awarded truck brand over the last five years. Like Ram Classic.As versatile as it is capable. Ram 1500, voted bestlarge pickup in Canada. Or Ram Heavy Dutywith a no-charge Cummins. And you don't pay for 90 days. The power is yours.The time is now. Get 20% off msrp on Ram Classic for up to $14,200 in discounts. Plus get 4.99% financing. Look. At. This! Team Smooth cuts it close! He definitely chooses Gillette Labs for effortless shaving in one efficient stroke. What a smooth finish! Choose your game face. Gillette. The Best a Man Can Get™. This is our private travel hacker. See all the ways that I can save you money? Ooh. She works harder than any of our other employees. I just use Skyscanner. It searches billions of prices to get you the best deal in just one tab. -Billions? -How lux. Operatic singing ( ) ( ) ( ) When you're looking for effective pain relief choose Tylenol. It's clinically proven to start working in 15-20 minutes. ( ) Tylenol. Once upon a time... The ferry was the only way to visit Prince Edward Island. Some say... It still is. Announcer:Andre De Grasse! [tense] - -[crowd cheers] Conference Finals!” Time to turn things up a notch” Are you ready?” Heres where I go to work!” Unbelievable!” Wild action!” Im here... so keep your head up!” a Richter scale hit!” You get an opportunity... you gotta take it!” Whos going to be the big factor in the game?” Draisaitl scores!” Im here for that” Im here...” Im here...” Im here for...” The Stanley Cup!” This is a guy.... who wants to get to the Stanley Cup Finals!” Im here... To win!” The show goes on!!!!” (Cheering and clapping) Announcer:Who cries more, winners or losers? Cry if you want to cry. Announcer:Can heartbreak help break records? You want to be great, you need to sacrifice. Announcer:Do bigger fans have higher blood pressure? How's your heart rate? Announcer:Why do we love rooting for underdogs? I support the home team. Announcer:What makes top dogs go the distance? How far will champions go to win? I was just curious. Announcer:Does it matter if they have nothing to lose? Is that a yes? Announcer:When you get curious, you getCBC. >> Ron: start of the memorial day long weekend in the usa. A friday night florida 1-new york 1 on the stanley cup playoffs on sportsnet presented by rogers. Our special guest again tonight and tomorrow, rick bowness. And good buddy kevin bieksa, of rick bowness, that is, not ours. >> Kevin: pupil. >> Ron: and kelly hrudey. We're all pupils. Take us through the anatomy of the tying goal. >> Rick: it starts fourth line against fourth line. Stenlund is out nylander. Rempe does a great job winning the face-off. There's fourth line against fourth line. Now the rangers ice the puck. All of a sudden paul maurice sees who is on the ice for the rangers and out comes the barkov line. Now you have the best line against the rangers' fourth line and that leads to the penalty which lead to the game-tying goal. The game within the game is always going on. Paul maurice sees what's going on. See he is the fourth line out there on the icing and comes back out with his number one line. >> Kevin: this goal right here, though, the power-play goal, that's a great hesitation

by verhaeghe to change the angle. But it's rodrigues in front of the net and then it's a secondary flyby screen by -- I think it was tkachuk. Was it tkachuk? >> Yeah. >> Kevin: so shesterkin. Going off a skate. No chance. >> Ron: kell. >> Kelly: great breakdown. We were all talking in the back with about seven or eight minutes left in the first we're saying, look at florida? Rangers a great start. You can kind of sense that florida is gaining a little bit of momentum. That was hard to say. >> Ron: let's go to the hit. Kulikov, he rocks wennberg. What did you think? >> Elliotte: I thought that was part of it -- >> Kevin: I thought that was part of it, kell. Sometimes you have to do this. It's your classic weak side "d" coming from the other side, the blind side, looking for the big hit. He probably wanted wennberg to receive that pass and have it on his stick. But he was committed to that hit. So even after it hits wennberg's stick and explodes, kulikov still is going through him. Now, it's a bit of a shoulder elbow to the head, but it's one of those calls where you call a five, you review, it and then you break it down, look at it slow motion. Is his head leaning forward where it's the only really principle point of contact because he's leaning forward? But the rangers' bench, they saw this happening. It's usually the bench's responsibility when you see a big hit like that happening or materializing to let him know. So if we run the clip you can hear it. [ Shouting ] >> Elliotte: I'm plett -- >> Kevin: I'm pretty sure it was. >> Mike: beck, one of the biggest hitters of his era -- mike peca -- unfortunate that the rangers only got a two. That was the right call. >> Kelly: what do you think? >> Rick: I think the referees made the right call. They call a major. Now they can look at it and make sure they get the right call. >> Kevin: slow it down, right? >> Rick: take a look at it. Make sure they're not overreact aing to give the guy an automatic game misconduct and a major because -- overreacting -- because it looks like a hit to the head. A clean hit in terms of he's not leading with his elbow. He's coming in strong. The kid has his head down. Sometimes the responsibility has to be on the guy that's getting hit. Keep your head up because of what's coming at you. It was a bad sucker pass, a suicide pass, and he's reaching for it. But he is leaning really forward. But he didn't leads with his elbow like that. So he had it tucked in -- lead -- it's unfortunate he got a head shot. >> Kelly: I like how we see the game differently, all of us. We've warned forever. >> Rick: you're a goalie now? >> Kelly: no. I played in an era with tough hockey. I still think this is a five-minute major. But it's interesting to me. My phone lit up like everybody's. And 50/50. Everybody was saying to me, it's either two minute or not even a penalty or it's a five-minute major. So we all see it differently. We've all been around. I still say that's a five-minute major. >> Kevin: 'cause it was to the head? >> Kelly: yes. That's what they're trying to get out of the game. >> Rick: I'll agree with that. >> Ron: I agree with you identifying panarin as being a key. [ Laughter ] >> Kelly: in the pre-game we talked about. It I thought he had more to give. Was he ever dynamic in the first period. To me he was the most noticeable player and you look at the first goal that the rangers didn't score. What a great play there. He knows ekblad will come. He doesn't give up on the puck. Pushes it forward and comes to trocheck. Trocheck scores. But he was all over. Watch this nifty little play with zibanejad. They'll go back and forth a little bit here. The puck was following him everywhere. He gets it in front to kreider. There's panarin, of course, chasing it down. Nowal' get it to fox -- now he'll get it to fox. Garry galley was talking about this play. Everywhere panarin was the puck was following him. This was a really fantastic play. Quick. He knows he'll get hit, but he's all around it. Quick little hands. And, you know, for panarin I said -- this is my comparison earlier. He has to play more like patrick kane. And he did 'cause you know sometimes he'll get hit. They are about the same size. They are both only about 175 pounds give or take. But you can still be effective. You can still win puck battles with a little play here and thanks, ron, for picking this one out. I didn't catch this one. I was away from the desk for a minute. Unbelievable. >> Ron: low shot again though. >> Kelly: right? >> Ron: yeah. You're all over that. The rempe-state building. >> If he's going to play, let him play to his game. Get it deep and run around. Get his presence felt. And the rangers again, that whole period we talked about the 1-3-1. They were playing a far more aggressive game. But if you look at him here, the puck is in deep. Now he can use his size and you can feel his presence out there. He was taking advantage. He's not picking any particular guy. He's running at every chance he gets. And give him credit here. Steps in and wins a big face-off. I know. >> Kevin: steph is a good -- stenlund is a good face-off guy. >> Kevin: and he gets an ovation from the crowd. It's the little things. The rempe factor for me, bones, is everyone in the lineup now feels two inches taller and 0 pounds heavier and they were. They started off so good physical, and obviously florida had pushback. >> Ron: certain people score. Team feels good, too. Carter verhaeghe, they've won 16 of the last 17 when he scores in the stanley cup playoffs. That was a big goal. As was trocheck's.

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