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With Shesterkin out, Georgiev steps in for Rangers

New York Rangers goaltender Alexandar Georgiev makes a glove save against the New Jersey Devils in the second period of an NHL hockey game at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke

The sight of Igor Shesterkin getting helped off the ice and into the locker room during a game is the last thing anyone in the Rangers organization wanted to see. But everything has been going right for the Rangers these last three weeks or so, and, in a weird way, if there was ever a good time for an injury to happen to their best player, now might be it.