Vesey SO good in Rangers win

Jimmy Vesey scored the tying goal early in the third period and added the winner in the seventh round of a shootout to give the Rangers a 4-3 victory against the Vancouver Canucks yesterday in New York.

Henrik Lundqvist made 29 saves to help the Rangers extend their winning streak to four games.

Vesey tied it at 5:05 of the third with a nifty forehand backhand combination for his fifth goal of the season. Rick Nash set up the goal with a spinning pass.

Jesper Fast and Michael Grabner also scored for New York.

Loui Eriksson, Jake Virtanen and Sam Gagner scored for Vancouver. Jacob Markstrom stopped 17 shots.

Grabner tied it 19 seconds into the third with his 10th goal of the season, beating Markstrom with a wrist shot. Gagner put the Canucks back in front 41 second later. Tomas Vanek forced a turnover behind the net and fed Gagner in the slot.

Vancouver opened the scoring at 7:54 of the first when Eriksson snapped a wrist shot past Lundqvist. Rangers forward Paul Carey had trouble controlling an outlet pass from his teammate and turned over the puck. Canucks captain Henrik Sedin assisted to extend his points streak to four games. The Canucks outshot the Rangers 11-4 in the period.

The Canucks made it 2-0 at 7:21 of the second when Jake Virtanen fired a wrist shot over Lundqvist’s glove. Fast scored with 2:20 left in the period on a redirection.

Hurricanes 4, Predators 3 — In Raleigh, N.C., Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen scored in a shootout and Carolina collected the extra point against Nashville.

Aho beat Predators goalie Juuse Saros with a wrist shot over his blocker on the Panthers’ second attempt. After Hurricanes goalie Scott Darling stopped Filip Forsberg’s second attempt for Nashville, Teravainen lifted a backhand over Saros’ left shoulder for the winner.

Josh Jooris, Victor Rask and Justin Williams scored in regulation for the Hurricanes, who snapped a twogame skid. Scott Darling finished with 32 saves.

Viktor Arvidsson, Mattias Ekholm and Craig Smith scored for the Predators. Smith’s goal tied it with 8:45 remaining in the third period. Saros made 33 saves and the Predators had their fourgame winning streak end.

Saros recorded an assist on Arvidsson’s first-period goal. It was the Predators goalie’s second career assist.

Rask had a goal and an assist for his first multipoint game since opening night.