San Francisco Chronicle

Rangers rally to beat Knights

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The Rangers’ Mika Zibanejad netted the tie-breaking goal with 5:39 left and host New York scored four times in the third period to rally for a 6-4 win over the Golden Knights on Tuesday night.

Jimmy Vesey, Mats Zuccarello, Chris Kreider, Pavel Buchnevich and Michael Graber also scored for the Rangers.

“I think we responded great in the third and hopefully we can build off that,” Zibanejad said after his team erased a 4-2 third-period deficit. “We’ve got to find a way to bring it early and maintain it to be a little more consistent throughout the game. Hopefully, it’s a step in the right direction.”

Reilly Smith scored twice, Oscar Lindberg got a goal against his former team and David Perron converted a penalty shot for Vegas, which has lost consecutiv­e games after winning five straight.

Red Wings 5, Coyotes 3: Gustav Nyquist and Luke Glendennin­g scored in the first 2:37 as host Detroit took control early against Arizona, which had ended its seasonopen­ing 11-game losing streak in overtime a night earlier.

Jets helped Minnesota 2, made Wild Winnipeg power 1: 28 Connor saves blunt plays and Hellebuyck all as five the visiting in their past Jets improved eight games. to 6-1-1 Nikolaj Ehlers and Kyle Connor scored for Winnipeg. Former Sharks goaltender Alex Stalock stopped 17 shots for the Wild, who had won two in a row.

Briefly: Anaheim center Ryan Getzlaf was placed on injured reserve and is expected to miss at least three games — including one in San Jose on Saturday — after he was hit in the face by a shot Sunday . ... Vegas placed goalie Oscar Dansk on IR with a lower-body injury. The Golden Knights are also without their top two goalies, Marc-Andre Fleury (concussion) and Malcolm Subban (lower-body injury) . ... Minnesota activated forward Nino Niederreit­er from injured reserve. He missed six games with a sprained ankle.

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