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They can’t stop these guys.
The New York Rangers, who closed out Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, who survived Washington’s Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom, have a problem on their hands. They’ve yet to slow the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Tyler Johnson, Nikita Kucherov and Ondrej Palat.
Hey, join the club.
It was Kucherov who finished it Wednesday night in Game 3 at Amalie Arena — saving all by snapping a wicked wrist shot past Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist early in overtime for a 6-5 win and a 2-1 series lead.