OTTAWA, Ontario — With his team riding three straight wins and having a chance to sweep their first extended road trip of the young season, Rangers coach Gerard Gallant took the long view and opted to rest his No. 1 goaltender, Igor Shesterkin, and start backup Alexandar Georgiev in the finale of the trip Saturday afternoon.
The day got off to a rough start when Georgiev was beaten just 41 seconds in by a shot from Nick Paul, and things got worse when Josh Norris doubled the lead with a four-on-four goal 1:04 into the third period. But the Rangers rallied with three goals in the final 5:23 — two of them by Chris Kreider — to steal a 3-2 victory from the jaws of defeat and sweep the four-game road trip.
Kreider got the comeback started when he scored on a power play at 14:23, a play on which Ottawa goaltender Matt Murray was injured and forced to leave the game. It was the Rangers’ third power-play goal of the season, in 24 chances.
Ryan Lindgren then drove to the front of the net to jam in a feed from Adam Fox to tie it at 15:52, and Kreider scored the winner with 2:03 remaining.
The Rangers return home to face the Calgary Flames Monday at Madison Square Garden.
