“Spectacular play. Better save.”
MSG analyst Dave Maloney’s four-word analysis of Minnesota Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson’s highway robbery on a third-period Grade A+ scoring opportunity by New York Rangers forward Mika Zibanejad said it all on Monday night.
The Rangers needed less than a minute of play to end their home scoring drought at 180:57 – the problem was that Artemi Panarin’s goal was the only one the Rangers scored in a disheartening 3-1 loss at Madison Square Garden.
The Wild, who had lost the first three games of a five-game trip, tied the game less than five minutes later on a goal by defenseman Jonas Brodin and dominated play for the rest of the period.