Rangers Win Another Wild One

Wow.  What a game.  Talbot was shaky in the first and gave up a quick goal.  Then Hayes, who is really coming on, gave Kreider a perfct pass across the goal mouth for Kreider's first goal of the night and Hayes's first assist.   Then Marty St. Louis took the first of two really idiotic offensive zone penalties which lead to an AZ power play, which lead to 2 goals agains when Klein also went off for knocking the puck out of play.   Bad, bad stuff.  The two first pick player would later commit his second offensive zone penalty with under 2 minutes left and the Rangers protecting a 1 goal lead.  Ponderous.

Anyway, it was 3-1 after one and Talbot was probably in danger of being pulled.   He came out for the second and so did the Ranger.  Stempniak scored his first goal of the night redirecting a John Moore shot.    Then Kreider scored his second of the game to tie it up.

The Rangers were swarming in the third, but didn't break through till Stempniak scored his second goal on a nice effort play after the AZ goalie had lost his stick.  And that was Hayes's second assist.   The Rangers then held on to win, yet another thriller.   Sheesh.  Lots more scouts in the house, but they just need to work with who they have and who's in the system.