Today, on the night of February 21, Moscow time, the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season game took place, with the New York Rangers hosting the Winnipeg Jets. The match played at Madison Square Garden stadium in New York ended with the victory of the Canadian team with a score of 4:1.
Winnipeg scored two goals in the first period. Distinguished defender Josh Morrissey and forward Mark Scheifli. In the second period, Jets forward Kyle Connor destroyed his team’s advantage. In the second quarter, Rangers striker Vincent Trochek reduced his team’s backlog with a pass from Russian forward Vladimir Tarasenko. At the end of the third period, Scheifli scored a double goal to set the final score.
Thus, “Winnipeg” ranks third in the NHL Western Conference standings, earning 71 points. The Rangers are fifth in the Eastern Conference with 75 points.
Previously reportedFlorida Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky repeated Yevgeny Nabokov’s record for winning NHL games among Russian goalkeepers.