Igor Shesterkin made 29 saves to help the New York Rangers edge the Tampa Bay Lightning by a 3-2 count in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final at Madison Square Garden.
After Nikita Kucherov opened the scoring with a power-play marker 2:41 into the first period, the Rangers forged ahead on goals from K’Andre Miller and Kaapo Kakko.
Mika Zibanejad beat Andrei Vasilevskiy blocker-side early in the second to put New York up by a pair.
Nick Paul stuffed a shot home with 2:02 left in regulation to draw the Lightning within one, but the defending champions could not come up with the equalizer and now head back to Tampa down two games.