It’s been a difficult season for Alexandar Georgiev, the Rangers’ backup goaltender. While the Rangers have ridden the almost unbelievable performances of Igor Shesterkin to the upper reaches of the Metropolitan Division standings and the cusp of their first playoff berth in five years, Georgiev has seen his ice time shrink more and more, and his results get worse and worse.
Georgiev had lost his last five starts but he stopped that streak Tuesday night when Adam Fox scored the game winner 55 seconds into overtime to give the Rangers a 4-3 victory over the Anaheim Ducks in the Blueshirts’ return home to Madison Square Garden after a four-game road trip.
Fox, at the end of his shift, raced up on a two-on-one with Artemi Panarin and banged in Panarin’s pass for his ninth goal of the season to give the Rangers their second straight win and give Georgiev his first victory since Jan. 8. For the Ducks, it closed a miserable five-game road trip East, where they finished 0-3-2.
