NEW YORK — They needed extra time, but the Rangers are on a roll now, winners of three straight after Chris Kreider took a pass from Mika Zibanejad and scored on a breakaway with 52.8 seconds left in overtime Tuesday night to beat the Philadelphia Flyers, 1-0, at Madison Square Garden.
Kreider was at the end of a shift, with Artemi Panarin ready to jump over the boards on a line change when Zibanejad came up with the puck on a turnover and found Kreider streaking up ice at the red line. He passed it and Kreider drove right at Flyers goalie Carter Hart, cut to his backhand and tucked it in for his third goal of the season, his second in three games.
The victory lifted the Rangers to 6-3-2 on the season, and dropped the Flyers to 5-3-1. The goal came on the Rangers’ 36th shot. Philadelphia managed only 19, but Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin, in his best game of the season, was brilliant and stopped them all.
