Hurricanes ruin Rangers’ Cup party with shutout, third consecutive win

Petr Mrazek made 27 saves as the Carolina Hurricanes spoiled a celebration at Madison Square Garden that honored the last Rangers team to win the Stanley Cup, blanking New York 3-0 Friday. Warren Foegele scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period as the Hurricanes ended a 16-game losing streak at the Garden. He took a pass from Saku Maenalanen in the slot and wristed a shot past Henrik Lundqvist at 6:43.

Rookie Andrei Svechnikov and Brock Mcginn added empty-net goals as Carolina won its third in a row.

In a 45-minute pregame ceremony, Mark Messier, Brian Leetch and the players and coaches from the Rangers’ 1994 Stanley Cup team were introduced. They were seated at center ice as a sellout crowd cheered the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of that championship.

To honor that club, Lundqvist wore a goaltender’s mask similar to Mike Richter’s with the Statue of Liberty prominently displayed on the front. Lundqvist’s mask also has “1994” painted on the right side with a picture of Richter, his name and number.

Carolina, 13-4-1 in its past 18 games, climbed within a point of Pittsburgh for the Eastern Conference’s final playoff position. These Rangers are near the bottom of the East.

Predators: Nashville acquired center Laurent Dauphin, 23, and left wing Adam Helewka, 23, from Arizona for center Emil Pettersson, 25. All three have spent most of this season in the American Hockey League, with Helewka totaling 31 points in 41 games and Pettersson 33 goals in 49 games.

Flyers: The NHL fined left wing James van Riemsdyk $5,000 for high-sticking Los Angeles defenseman Alec Martinez during Philadelphia’s shootout loss Thursday. The incident, which occurred in the second minute, did not draw an on-ice penalty.

Coyotes: Defenseman Kyle Capobianco, 21, will miss the rest of the season after sustaining a right leg injury Thursday in Arizona’s loss to Columbus.

The Associated Press