It looked like it might have been a long night for the Penguins when the Rangers scored on the very first shot of the game. But after that bump in the road, it was the home team that opened up the gates and ran NYR starting goalie Igor Shesterkin out of the game early for the second game in a row to emphatically take Game 4 and serious control of the series.
The Rangers struck just 2:06 in, after Jeff Carter and Mike Matheson failed to clear the zone. Braden Schneider got the puck off the wall and into space for Alexis Lafreniere to fire a hard shot past the right handed catching glove of Louis Domingue and open the scoring early.