The Garden faithful were treated to an absolute gift of a game at the world’s most famous arena today — one that requires a lot of unwrapping from yours truly. This afternoon tilt against the Philadelphia Flyers on Broadway had basically everything a hockey fan could ask for, and then some.
Artemi Panarin was back in the lineup for the Blueshirts after being a healthy scratch in St. Louis on Thursday due to illness, and he looked completely reinvigorated throughout the matchup. He opened the scoring late in the first period with a blistering wrist shot that ripped past Sam Ersson.