Timo Meier scores two goals to lead Devils over Rangers 4-0
Timo Meier scored twice and Jacob Markstrom made 26 saves as the New Jersey Devils defeated the New York Rangers 4-0 on Saturday in an outcome that clinched the Tampa Bay Lightning their eighth straight playoff berth.
Jesper Bratt and Nico Hischier also scored as New Jersey won its third straight while the Rangers had their two-game winning streak snapped.
After a scoreless first, Meier scored on the power play at 10:56 of the second, beating Rangers netminder Igor Shesterkin just four seconds after Sam Carrick took an interference penalty.
Bratt made it 2-0 — shorthanded at 12:23 — with his 21st goal.
Meier scored his second of the game and 24th of the season at 15:01 of the third. Hischier made it 4-0 at 16:12 with his team-leading 35th goal. Hischier added two assists.
Markstrom denied the Rangers the rest of the way for his fourth shutout of the season and the 24th of his career. The 35-year-old Swedish netminder is 26-14-6 in his first season with the Devils.
The Rangers, a year after finishing with the league's best record, are in danger of missing the playoffs. They trail Montreal by two points with six games remaining. Montreal has seven games left.
New York failed on its two power-play chances and have scored only twice in their last 43 man-advantage opportunities.
New Jersey is solidly in third place in the Metropolitan Division with 89 points.
Shesterkin made 12 saves in tghe loss, falling to 25-27-5 this season.
Rangers:
Fell to 18-16-4 on the road, including a 5-0 drubbing at Prudential Center in their previous visit on Dec. 23.
Devils:
Improved to 19-13-15 at home with their fourth win in five games overall.
Meier's goal midway through the second period snapped a scoreless tie and the disjointed Rangers generated little offense for the second half of the contest.
New Jersey is 34-1-2 when leading after two periods. The Devils have nine shutouts overall this season.
Rangers:
Host the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday.
Devils:
Host the Boston Bruins on Tuesday.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
41 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Willson Contreras' RBI groundout
Chris Kreider Clears The Air About Transparency With Rangers Management And Explains Reasoning For Waiving No-Trade Clause For the entirety of Chris Kreider's career, he's been with one team until now as the New York Rangers traded the veteran forward to the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday. 3:42 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
NBC Sports
3 hours ago
- NBC Sports
Mondo Duplantis breaks pole vault world record for 12th time
Sweden's Mondo Duplantis has broken the men's pole vault world record for a 12th time. Duplantis, born and raised in Louisiana with a Swedish mother, cleared 6.28 meters (20 feet, 7 inches) on his first attempt at a Diamond League meet in Stockholm. He improved on his most recent world record of 6.27 meters set Feb. 28 at an indoor meet in France. Duplantis has increased the world record by one centimeter for all 12 of his records, the first on Feb. 8, 2020. Duplantis, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, adopted the same record-breaking strategy as Ukrainian Sergey Bubka, who maximized bonus money by raising the bar one centimeter at a time on many occasions in the 1980s and '90s. Bubka broke the outdoor world record 17 times and the indoor world record 18 times between 1984 and 1994, before World Athletics shifted to one world record combining indoor and outdoor. Before Duplantis, the world record was 6.16 meters, set by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie in 2014. Duplantis, 25, has lost just four times since the start of 2020, while racking up more than 70 victories, according to Nick Zaccardi,
Washington Post
3 hours ago
- Washington Post
Rangers sideline Tyler Mahle with shoulder fatigue and call up Kumar Rocker
The Texas Rangers placed right-hander Tyler Mahle on the 15-day injured list Sunday with fatigue in his throwing shoulder. The move is retroactive to Thursday and right-hander Kumar Rocker was called up from Triple-A Round Rock to take his place on the roster. Rocker is scheduled to take Mahle's spot in the rotation and start Sunday against the Chicago White Sox. Mahle, who was limited to just three starts last season while recovering from Tommy John surgery, is 6-3 with a 2.34 ERA in 14 starts this season. The 25-year-old Rocker is 1-4 with an 8.87 ERA in six starts for the Rangers this season. ___ AP MLB:
