PA Parenteau Shootout Winner Leads Rangers Over Senators 2-1 - Nov. 14th '09

Game Highlights:


"10 out of 10" as far as how satisfied Henrik Lundqvist was with this win.

It was round 7 in the shootout, Henrik Lundqvist is showing signs of fatigue after a 35-save performance through regulation with an additional 5 minutes of man-down overtime.

The roster is squelched of known scorers, and John Tortorella sends out PA Parenteau (with probably Gilroy and Avery as his only other options) who skates in down the left, and at the last second jerks right firing a shot beating Brian Elliott on the far side. Lundqvist makes one last save on the speedy Milan Michalek and the Rangers collect 2 points on the road - something they have accomplished only 4 other times out of 10 (bringing the Rangers' to the .500 mark of 5-5-1 on the road).

Overall another hard-fought contest by the Rangers. Particularly in the final 1:30 of OT when Ales Kotalik took a tripping penalty - the Rangers PK was exceptional. Ryan Callahan, moving at the same speed of the puck being passed among Sens, looked like Blair Betts getting right in front of the shooters and frustrating some of the league's best. Marc Staal (jumped in front of Daniel Alfredsson's final slapshot from the slot) and Dan Girardi (who led the night with 5) put up stellar performances, blocking several shots each as well.

* PA Parenteau, although scoring the shootout-winner, missed a wide open net in the third that would have won the game. Literally - I could have headbutted that puck into that net.

* Vaclav Prospal scored his first short-handed goal in his highly-exalted career.

* Sean Avery, who'd mentioned been seeming to slump recently, led the team with hits (4) and had some pretty good setups. When he is throwing big hits, it seems to improve his skating and thus overall game.

* Much better job by the defense after the game against the Thrashers. I feel like all our defense needs to do to be successful is have good communication between who's going to skate up and who's going to stay back - it doesn't really matter who as long as they are both aware of what is happening. The key is just to do this consistently and not 1-of-every-4 contests.

* Aaron Voros needs to just hit the puck towards the net when he is as close to the goalie as he gets. It seems the play moves too fast for him and anything then just whacking it on-goal becomes a turnover or a play-killer.

* Daniel Alfredsson, although prolific as he may be, always seems to have Henrik Lundqvist's number.

* 5 penalties is still too many.

Henrik Lundqvist, Vaclav Prospal, PA Parenteau Post-Game:


John Tortorella Post-Game: