Game 1: Game 2: Game 3: Game 4: Thursday's result: Saturday: x-Monday:
Carolina 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, OT Carolina 2, N.Y. Rangers 0 N.Y. Rangers 3, Carolina 1 N.Y. Rangers 4, Carolina 1 Carolina 3, N.Y. Rangers 1 at N.Y. Rangers, TBA at Carolina, TBA challenge of putting away a team that has been resilient, even stubborn, when facing a series deficit.
The Rangers rallied from a 3-1 hole to beat Pittsburgh in a sevengame first-round series, then lost the first two games against Carolina before fighting back to even at home.
“The way I look at it, we've played a lot of mustwin games lately, and we've done a pretty good job,” said New York's Ryan Strome, who had a secondperiod goal negated by a successful offsides challenge from Carolina.
“We've played some desperate hockey . ... We seem to like being in this position a little bit.”
The Hurricanes sustained their aggressive style while giving the Rangers little room to operate, finishing with a 3417 shot advantage to keep the pressure on Shesterkin while also easing the burden on Antti Raanta (16 saves) in Carolina's net.
Mika Zibanejad scored
OILERS 5, FLAMES 4 >> Connor McDavid scored at 5:03 of overtime and Edmonton won at Calgary to win the second-round playoff series in five games and advance to the Western Conference finals.
The Edmonton captain scored his seventh goal of the postseason, beating Jacob Markstrom off a pass from Leon Draisaitl to send the Oilers spilling over the bench in celebration.
Zach Hyman had a goal and two assists and Darnell Nurse, Jesse Puljujarvi and Evan Bouchard also scored for the Oilers. Mike Smith made 32 saves as Edmonton claimed the first postseason Battle of Alberta in 31 years.
Draisaitl added four assists — his fifth straight contest registering threeplus points to build on the NHL playoff record he set in Game 4.