RALEIGH, N.C. — If the Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes meet in the playoffs next month, it has the potential to be a really great series.
The teams met for the second time in three days Thursday at PNC Arena and produced an instant classic. It was a taut nailbiter that saw Igor Shesterkin turn in another dynamite performance to keep the Hurricanes at bay until Adam Fox’s goal at 4:01 of the third period broke a tie and pushed the Rangers to a 2-1 victory.
For Fox, the goal, a snap shot over the right shoulder of Carolina goalie Frederik Andersen, broke what had been a 24-game goal drought, his last goal having come in a 6-2 win over the Florida Panthers on Jan. 23. For Shesterkin, who made 29 saves, many of them brilliant, the victory was his sixth in his last seven starts, and improved his record to 33-12-7.
