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-- he'll dump it -- trouba is there. Trouba will hang on. Now played it for miller. Up ahead at centre. Goodrow will take his time and lift it in. The rangers get a change. Kulikov checked by panarin. And he'll work it up the wing over the head of luostarinen down the ice. That's going to be an icing call against the panthers. >> Garry: well, the last three defensive draws the rangers have had they've iced one, turned one over, and then struggled to get out of their zone. You win those clean draws, you have to exit quickly and now the panthers will be challenged with the same thing. A defensive draw to the left of bobrovsky. Got to know your assignments off these face-offs. >> John: luostarinen and trocheck for the face-off. Luostarinen won it. Ekman-larsson back for kulikov. Up the boards, bennett can't get it by fox. Fox held it in again against ekman-larsson. Forced it into the corner. Kulikov back of the net. Bumped by panarin. Luostarinen on the puck hands it off for ekman-larsson. On to the wing. Here comes rodrigues. Forced back of the goal by lindgren. Adam fox had his pass blocked by the leg of bennett. Now tarasenko will get it back into the rangers' zone. Lindgren tangled up with tarasenko. Fox for reinhart with a drive and he picked it up off the boards and fired it on goal. >> Garry: and that's what rick bowness has been talking about. If you're fox and he took the penalty earlier because he turned the puck over 'cause they don't look off you. They are coming through you every single time as we see lindgren take rodrigues out, but at the end of the day, if you're fox, you want to wait them out. You want to wait them out. But, tame, you can't wait 'til the last second and then it goes off bennett's skate -- at the same time -- and all of a sudden they come back at you. It's a fine line between waiting it out to find a better play and just making the safe play. >> Reporter: reinhart after the puck. Taken to the boards by miller. Zibanejad for kreider. At the point. Ekblad will fire it in. Trouba clears it out. It's knocked down by chytil. But the panthers get it back. Reinhart on the pass from forsling. Takes it in. Bumped by miller. Trouba goes after it. Runs into reinhart. Barkov is on it. Barkov to the point. Forsling the drive and that one gets tipped out of play. >> Garry: I'm not sure if that went off trouba or reinhart, but bodies in front of shesterkin. You know, if you let someone in there then when you go in to play him you have even more traffic in front of him. Barkov will lay it off the wall. A little indirect to forsling. John, we know he has a pretty good ripper here. And this one might have gone off the shaft of the stick of reinhart and then up and over the top of the net. We saw that in the boston series, man. That forsling, he can really bring the heat from the blue line. >> John: lundell will square off against goodrow. Tkachuk goes after it. Checked into the boards. Schneider will get it out. Schneider trying to slip it past mikkola. That didn't work. Tkachuk will flip it back in the rangers' end. Gustafsson goes after it. Verhaeghe on him. He comes free for schneider. He'll backhand it down the ice. This will be an icing call against the rangers. >> Garry: there is so much care when you have the puck in a game like this because both teams are pretty good defensively. And you got to be really careful if you're going to make a soft play up through the middle of the ice. So the guys are tending to make them firm, but we're seeing a lot of icings. Way too many for my liking. >> John: >> John: barkov takes the draw against goodrow. Picked up by wennberg. He has the room. Coming in with a shot. That goes wide. Reinhart after it. Backs it up for barkov. Sent across for montour. Had to try to find it in his feet. Now rolled it back of the net. Tarasenko trying to give it back for montour, but it's taken away. Gustafsson will lead it forward and the rangers get it to centre. Trocheck checked by cousins. Down goes trocheck. Panarin to the point for fox. Rides it across. Lindgren with a chance blocked by cousins. Ekman-larsson steps into his man as lafreniere will lift it back into the corner. Ekman-larsson then bowls over trocheck in the corner. He didn't like him. He gave ekman-larsson a little two-handed what going back up the ice. Here comes lafreniere. Trying to drop it off for trocheck in front. Montour let's his goaltender cover it up. >> Garry: you have to be careful. You don't want to be the one guy going off as bobrovsky shuts it down. Now remember, jimmy vesey has vacated this game. He is not in the lineup for the rangers.

they're short a guy. And then they also have rempe in the lineup, a guy that you know laviolette won't overplay in overtime. He may use him eventually maybe if he has to, but at this point you don't think so. So now that kind of puts you down a couple forwards and you have to keep that in mind as the overtime starts to lengthen. >> John: zibanejad will step in against luostarinen. And the rangers win it. Fox has got it. Fox throws it in front off the stick. It's free and rodrigues will clear it away. Zibanejad hands it off. Lindgren back for fox. Tipped in by kreider. Ekblad goes after it. Ekblad hit by zibanejad. Kreider joins the party. They jam at it along the boards. Zibanejad poked it free behind the net. Forsling after it. Met by roslovic. Forsling trying to lift it out. Zibanejad got a piece of it. Lindgren along the boards. Holds it in and got it down low. Got away from roslovic back of the net. Now it is kreider watched by rodrigues. Slides it down for roslovic. Trying to kick it away from forsling. Roslovic bats at it. Wennberg has it. Stops! Trying to go the other way. Ekblad works him over. Roslovic knocked the puck free. Bennett and roslovic all tangled up. Fox got a piece of it. Ekblad will lift it out at centre. It's stopped by trouba. Wennberg sends it in. Forsling is on it. Cuylle goes after forsling as it's flipped down the ice. Lundell after the puck. Miller comes up with it for new york. He'll hand it off. Marquise goodrow right into the panthers' end and then into the rangers' bench. >> Garry: well, down low, wennberg trying to jam the brakes on and come back the opposite direction. He can black does a nice job -- ekblad does a nice job coming in. Take man and eliminate. Eliminate man and wait for the support to help you out and we'll do it as a team like they always seem to do defensively down low as ekblad continuing to bark out instructions probably to the forwards asking for a little help down low. >> John: goodrow will square off against stenlund. They all fry to get in the right spot for the face-off -- try to -- now they're set. Goodrow scramble off the draw. Rempe tried to get to it. Dropped to the point. Miller has it. Miller with the shot. Bouncing puck comes free. Goodrow around the boards. Trouba is there. Rempe parked in front trying to cause some traffic, but it's off the stick and into the seats. >> He's a big body. If he can park in front of bobrovsky off the face-off like that you know he'll have to look around him or literally through his legs if he gets low enough. That is a big body that takes up a lot of space. That's what you have to do if you're rempe. Win the draw, get to the front of the net. Create a screen and hopefully it finds its way through and off you and whatever. Can you imagine if he found a way to find the back of the net in this overtime. The roof would below off this place. >> John: zibanejad and barkov now for the face-off. Zibanejad won it on the boards. Miller after it. Trying to folk it free. Zibanejad can't get it by barkov and he'll take it out. Barkov will send it into the rangers' zone as trouba is after it. Tarasenko came flying in. Miller checked. Reinhart tried to get a piece of it. Chytil trying to tip it by mikkola and he gets it out to centre as montour knocked it back in. Trouba throws it across in his own zone. Won't be a hand pass so chytil can take it. Now to trouba. Back behind the net. K'andre miller with it. Over for trouba. Off the middle and it's off the skate of chytil, but he's able to knock it deep. Bobrovsky sets it up for bennett. Panarin reaching in. Bennett up on to the wing. Over the stick of fox. Luostarinen sends it across the ice and montour will play it back of the net. Schneider is on it. Pass up ahead. Panarin's got it. Up the middle. Lafreniere tried to get by kulikov. Now runs into kulikov on the corner. Kulikov hands it off for bennett at centre. Bennett cuts in. Looks to the net. Holds on. He's checked by schneider. Rodrigues follows up. Got it back for bennett. Dumped down behind the goal. Got away from rodrigues. Panarin bumped by rodrigues. And panarin will lift it out. Ekman-larsson settles it down. Quick pass up for lundell. Watched by schneider.

anton lundell checks up. Dropped it down for tkachuk. He flips it around to carter verhaeghe. Tried to go back for tkachuk. Over his stick. Schneider comes up with it. And it's off the boards to the point and up. Roslovic up with it. Roslovic shoots! High shot sailed over the net. Panarin will keep it in. Now it's wennberg back of the net. Wennberg waiting, centred. And it's taken away by tkachuk. And he's going to clear it out to centre with verhaeghe up there, but fox got in his way. Lindgren will dump it back in for new york. Tkachuk trying to backhand it out. It was stopped up along the boards. Now tkachuk will get it out off the stick of lindgren. Rangers trying to control it here. Fox has got it. Fox can't get it up for cuylle as forsling will send it down the ice. Shesterkin directs traffic getting it for lindgren. Fox out to centre. Race for it. Bouncing puck. Chytil can't come up with it. Didn't bounce the right way on him. Cuylle had to clear the zone to get back on side and the panthers have it. Reinhart with it. Here comes sam reinhart. Reinhart to barkov. Thrown towards the net. Backhand is high. Mikkola follows up. Played to the corner. Lindgren up the boards for chytil. Chytil flips it in the air and it will make it out as reinhart knocked it down and played it back in. Past the midway mark of the first overtime in game two. Kreider on the attack for new york. His shot is blocked. Follows up! Rebound! Oh, what a chance for chytil! Wide open net, couldn't get it to go. Shesterkin out of the net around the boards and chytil will let trocheck get to it first at centre and he dumps it in. Ekblad on it for florida. Played it off to forsling. Sent ahead, lomberg tipped it in. In. Miller after it. Checked by cousins. Left it for trouba. Trocheck with it. Pass across for panarin. Back for trocheck. Runs over forsling. Bobrovsky stopped it and played it for ekblad. He lifts it high in the air. It get back to centre and schneider is on it. Pass up the wing intended for barclay goodrow, and that's going to be called icing against the rangers, but the shovels will come out, so they'll get the break and the breather. >> Garry: they're upset. They thought there was a pinch on the wall. That shouldn't have been icing. But what an opportunity for the new york rangers to send this back to florida all knotted at one, and oliver ekman-larsson is going to be in the right place at the right time. First of all, roslovic comes in. He trips over the top of the net. Didn't even have -- that wasn't even close. And then here's the back end of oliver ekman-larsson on the original shot that came to the net. That's where the rebound ended up was on the stick of chytil. And there's the kicked rebound and here's the shot coming after as bobrovsky is diving across. It hits the back end of ekman-larsson and they are thankful for that. We've had a few chances in overtime. You have to fight for every inch of ice you get in this game. Long shot by roslovic. Kuehl ithrows it out in front -- cuylle throws -- lundell off his stick. Bobrovsky shuts that down. This wrist shot, not much to that, but a rebound, that was available that we haven't seen a lot of. Net drive by lomberg, shesterkin gloves that. And then fox turns it over and a slapper from the boards, an easy save. Roslovic goes high above. Maybe he nix the top of the cross -- knicks the top of the crossbar. You have got -- you have got to fight for every inch of ice you get in this game as we have a look at the guys who have the pleasure of lighting the lamp in overtime, which is something you run around as a kid playing street hockey, and dreaming that one day you'll score in overtime, a winning goal in the stanley cup playoffs. They have all had the opportunity to do that. Verhaeghe leads the way with five of them. Panarin big one in game seven. How much bigger does it get than that, game seven to eliminate a team. Who will be the hero in this one? Certainly if you're the rangers, a loss here would be devastating. As I mentioned, it's not that it hasn't been done. It's been done as early as this year, dallas did it to vegas. But it doesn't happen very often. And for the florida panthers, you can sense it. If you can just take this one here, how much of a trackalhold do you have? And it just trips at the will of your opponent -- chips at the

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