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12/16 20:47 CST Thatcher Demko stops 23 as Canucks blank Rangers 3-0
Thatcher Demko stops 23 as Canucks blank Rangers 3-0
By ALLAN KREDA
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) --- Evander Kane and Liam Ohgren scored and Thatcher Demko made
23 saves as the league-worst Vancouver Canucks defeated the New York Rangers
3-0 on Tuesday night.
Conor Garland added an empty-net goal as Vancouver, which had won only three of
its previous 12 games, smothered the Rangers from start to finish. New York is
4-10-3 at home.
Kane scored his sixth goal 1:46 into the contest, when he beat Rangers
netminder Jonathan Quick after defenseman Matthew Robertson's path was briefly
blocked by a linesman.
Ohgren, acquired Friday from Minnesota in the Quinn Hughes trade, made it 2-0
at 3:24 of the second. It was Ohgren's first goal with Vancouver. The
21-year-old Swedish forward also played 18 games without a point for the Wild
this season.
Demko stopped Artemi Panarin with 4:16 left in the second to preserve the
shutout, his first this season and the 10th of his career.
Garland scored shorthanded into an empty net with the Rangers with 3:08
remaining in the third.
Vancouver has only 29 points in 33 games.
The Rangers' power play, which has struggled since defenseman Adam Fox was
injured against Tampa Bay on Nov. 29, failed to convert on four chances.
The Rangers have been blanked six times and scored one goal four times in their
10 regulations loses at the Garden.
Quick made 14 saves.
New York will play seven of their next eight games on the road, including the
Jan. 2 Winter Classic against the Florida Panthers in Miami.
The Rangers were coming off a 4-1 home loss to Anaheim on Monday in the return
game for former Rangers Chris Kreider and Jacob Trouba.
Rangers forward Mika Zibanejad returned after he was scratched against Anaheim
for missing a team meeting.
The Canucks were without leading scorer Elias Pettersson (upper body) for the
fifth-straight game. He was placed on injured reserve Sunday.
Up next Canucks: Visiting New York Islanders on Friday. Rangers: Visiting St. Louis Blues on Thursday. ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL
Up next Canucks: Visiting New York Islanders on Friday. Rangers: Visiting St. Louis Blues on Thursday. ___ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL
