CBHT - Friday, May 24, 2024 - 10:00 p.m. (ET) - Segment #2

opening draw of period number three here in game two. >> Puck dumped in by trouba. Fresh ice for florida. Verhaeghe hands it off for reinhart. Dropped back for barkov. Played over to reinhart. And he'll zip it in. Trouba goes after it. Verhaeghe in the corner knocked down. Puck picked up and cleared down the ice. >> Garry: we'll have a penalty call here. It looks like verhaeghe is coming over and that happened deep down in the offensive zone. Taking a penalty in the offensive zone drives coaches crazy. Taking the penalty in the offensive zone when you're on the power play -- >> Referee: minor penalty, high-sticking. >> Garry: and there's the high-stick. It comes up and smacks trouba in the face. The referee makes the call on. That it's the right call. And they'll have 47 seconds of four on four play and then the new york rangers will have an opportunity to go on the power play and try to take the lead in this game two, a game that they really feel like they got to have and it's hard to believe that in game two you're saying that, but when you lose the first one at home, that's the kind of pressure you dump on yourself. >> John: rangers announced that jimmy vesey will not return tonight. Upper body the reason as barkov has got it. Played it ahead for montour. Montour down the wing. Watched by miller. Throws it on net. Shesterkin stopped it. Wennberg has the puck. He's chased by barkov. Barkov lost his stick. He'll just vacate it in the zone. Gustafsson buries it in and he'll send it back to the florida net. Mikkola after it. Around the boards it goes. Lundell has got it. Anton lundell to reinhart. Dropped it for montour. Montour in front! Lundell with a chance! Great save made by shesterkin. >> Garry: well, they call him the mini barkov. And they had a good chuckle about that this morning, the two of them at the press conference. Lundell, such a smart 200-foot player. He takes it off the wall. There you see miller. He has it. He moves it to the middle. Gets to your centreman. Let him distribute it. Miller leaves him. He leaves him and moves over and he leaves him wide open. I think this was a three on two and it was never really a three on three. What an opportunity for lundell. That is a big save for shesterkin. >> John: 11 seconds to go in the four-on-four hockey. Rangers win the draw. Millar has it. K'andre miller holds on. Pass goes off the stick of stenlund. Forsling up with the puck. He'll fire it down the ice. That will be blown down and brought back on the icing call. >> Garry: 1-1 game every face-off is so, so important. 1:10. That's what the rangers will have on the power play. And a power play that they really need to step up and notch one here. I mean, it's got to be a difference maker for ya. It's been so in the playoffs for your team. It's been a real strong area, and the penalty killing is fine, but the power play has to ante in. >> John: the penalty just expired. Fox with a shot blocked in front. Cleared away. That one actually the netting as fox will loop back in his own zone with it now with a minute to go in this power play for new york. Fox up for zibanejad. He'll get to centre and ring it in. Ekblad got a stick on it. Luostarinen will get it by fox. Ahead for stenlund. Tried to dump it in and he shot it into the linesman ryan daisy, and now it's brought back by mika zibanejad. Zibanejad flips it by kulikov. Kreider centred in front. Nobody there. Fox will hustle after it. Back for trocheck. Trocheck with it. Over for panarin. Back to fox. Down for zibanejad. Back to the net. Kreider on. It around the boards to trocheck to the point. Fox. Panarin with a shot. Bobrovsky with a save and he'll hold on. >> Garry: very aggressive up top, and fox almost has it down low to zibanejad, but it ends up on the wrong side of him. But trocheck will get this puck back to fox over to panarin and to the net it goes. You see where zibanejad is? You see where kreider is? And where they're not is in the eyes of bobrovsky. He sees this clean coming to the net and makes a save. >> John: 16 seconds still to go on the power play.

zibanejad and reinhart for the face-off. They shuffle early there. Zibanejad is tossed out. Kreider had come in. Will come in. [ ] reinhart trying to get his stick in early. He gets a word from linesman devin berg and reinhart is tossed out. Barkov now squares off with kreider. Tangled up off the draw. Comes to the point. Fox mishandled it. And he's got to back out with it. Adam fox to the red line and dumps it in. Montour after it. Panarin there as well. Mikkola takes a hit from kreider. Kreider will dump it in. The broken stick for panarin. He's forced to go to the bench. Power play over. Kreider stopped it at centre. Tipped it up for fox. Played back for gustafsson. Gustafsson dumps it in on bobrovsky and he'll move it to the corner for mikkola. Tkachuk tipped it out. Miller at centre. Trying to dump it in. Stopped by tkachuk. He backhands it into the rangers zone. Trouba on it. Up for wennberg. Checked. Verhaeghe comes up with it. Flips it down for tkachuk. Off to lundell. Anton lundell trying to go to the point. Picked off by lafreniere. Alexis lafreniere slows up. He has it down low. Roslovic with a chance. Can't beat bobrovsky. >> Garry: you remember wennberg had that suicide pass up the middle. Took a huge hit from kulikov. And trouba gives him one up the middle again. I think he has his head up here. Yeah, I can feel it coming, and it's tkachuk this time, and that's what they do to youal they get your head up and then roslovic, he gets the puck, but he backs himself closer to the goal line before he shoots it -- that they'll do to you -- if he pulls the trigger right away -- there's more net available to him. The minute he keeps backing up down low it gives the advantage to bobrovsky. >> John: zibanejad will take the face-off against rodrigues. Kreider keeps moving around and forsling is trying to follow him. So now they're all going to have a chat here. Chris rooney comes over to talk to kreider. >> Garry: kreider's saying they have to set first. And the referee is coming over to tell him once you've set, you've set. And so that's where he's going to stay. They'll let the defensive team get into position. And set up this one-timer. Look for ekblad to come firing through here. >> John: ekblad chipped it free. Forsling has got it. Moves it up ahead. Luostarinen. Now at centre ice. But he'll dump it in and rodrigues is on the puck first. Rodrigues tried to centre it. Taken away by fox. Up ice comes kreider. Tried to get by forsling. Bennett goes after the puck. Swiped it up the boards. Fox was there. It's blocked. Forsling takes a hit. And the puck gets dumped back in by fust -- gustafsson. Chytil tried to get it in deep. Stopped at centre. Off side call against the rangers. A little shoving here along the boards. >> Garry: a little bit of a late hit. If you're ekblad, you're willing to take this risk. I don't know if I'd be willing to take a risk in a 1-1 game, but the whistle had long gone. Cuylle even let the puck go and ekblad comes across. And you know your excuse is always I didn't hear the whistle. I didn't know there was a whistle. This is a loud building even when it's in its quietest moments. There's still a lot of noise. The game within the game. That's always the way you look at the playoffs. Take advantage of it if you can. Ekblad does that and gets a lick on cuylle. >> John: montour with a hook on zibanejad at the line as well. This series continues to grow its identity and character that we've seen. Battles continue. Cuylle gets it back. Lindgren hands it off. Schneider dumps it in. Cousins having a look over his shoulder. Barclay goodrow was there. A bouncing puck and rempe came in and bumped lomberg. Ekman-larsson up the ice. Turned back by the rangers. Cuylle has it. Slides it ahead. Rempe goes after it. Pokes it away from cousins. Rempe, big hit on kulikov. [ Cheering ] cousins up for the puck. Checked by goodrow. Rempe at centre. Off to cuylle.

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