The large story for the New York Rangers going into Thursday’s Recreation 5 of the Jap Convention Last in opposition to the Florida Panthers was the dearth of offense from forwards Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad.
The 2 star forwards had mixed for no objectives and no factors over the primary 4 video games of the collection, a shocking lack of manufacturing for 2 of their greatest and most essential gamers.
They lastly broke via early within the second interval with Kreider scoring the sport’s first objective with a helper from Zibanejad.
Not solely was it Kreider’s first objective of the collection, it was additionally a shorthanded objective that already provides the Rangers six shorthanded objectives within the playoffs.
Here’s a have a look at the play.
