Igor Shesterkin on Tuesday made 41 saves as the New York Rangers beat the Dallas Stars 3-1 for their eighth straight win.
Adam Fox, Kaapo Kakko and Vincent Trocheck scored for the Rangers in the matchup of division leaders. Miro Heiskanen scored for Dallas, who lost their third straight game.
The Rangers are 9-1-1 in their past 11 contests. They were coming off a dramatic 6-5 overtime win against the Islanders in an outdoor game on Sunday at the MetLife Stadium.
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Shesterkin improved to 23-12-1 and has allowed two or fewer goals in 17 of his wins.
“He did everything he had to do to get the win,” Rangers coach Peter Laviolette said. “Shesty was fantastic.”
Shesterkin made an acrobatic glove save on Wyatt Johnson 17 minutes, 28 seconds into the second period, stopped Jamie Benn with a sliding pad stop 13 minutes, 57 seconds into the third, then smothered several chances in the crease less than three minutes later.
“I thought their goalie was their best player,” Stars coach Pete DeBoer said. “Our goalie was really good, too. Considering the back-to-back situation, that was a 2-1 game and we played right to the buzzer. We gave them everything they could handle.”
New York have won four of their past five games against Dallas.
Fox opened the scoring seven minutes, 46 seconds into the first period, one-timing a pass from Artemi Panarin past Stars netminder Scott Wedgewood, who made 23 saves. Defenseman Ryan Lindgren, who needed stitches under his left eye during Sunday’s game, also assisted on Fox’s ninth goal.
“I thought we battled hard,” Fox said. “They are a good team over there. We were ready from the start. Obviously a nice win.”
Fox has points in nine of his past 12 games. Despite missing 10 games due to injury, he is seventh among NHL defensemen with 46 points. Panarin leads the Rangers with 75 points, including 32 goals, and has points in 45 of New York’s 56 games.
Kakko made it 2-0 at eight minutes, 23 seconds into the second period, finishing off a passing play with defensemen K’Andre Miller and Erik Gustafsson. Kakko fired a high shot past Wedgewood from the left wing for his seventh goal.
The 23-year-old Finnish forward has points in five straight games.
“Kakko had another strong game,” Laviolette said. “He looks confident on the ice. That was a really nice goal.”
Heiskanen put the Stars on the board 47 seconds later with his seventh goal on the power play with assists from Benn and Joe Pavelski.
Trocheck added an empty-net goal at 18 minutes, 19 seconds into the third period to seal the win.
The last time the Rangers had a winning streak of eight or more games was during the 2015-2016 season, when they won nine in a row.
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