Igor Shesterkin gave the New York Rangers a chance. Alex Wennberg got just enough of his stick on the puck to become the hero.

And just like that, the Rangers reclaimed home-ice advantage in the Eastern Conference final.

past Sergei Bobrovsky 5:35 into overtime, as the Rangers survived an all-out barrage from the Florida Panthers in the final minutes before escaping with a 5-4 victory 91裸聊视频� one that gave New York a 2-1 lead in the series.

91裸聊视频淭his is a team,91裸聊视频� said Wennberg, who had one goal in his first 31 games with the Rangers since being acquired in March from Seattle for draft picks. 91裸聊视频淚t doesn91裸聊视频檛 matter who91裸聊视频檚 the hero. It doesn91裸聊视频檛 matter who does it, we have everyone fighting for one another. Yeah, maybe I haven91裸聊视频檛 put up the same amount of points, but we91裸聊视频檙e a team. Everything we do we do together.91裸聊视频�

Ryan Lindgren took a shot from the left point and Wennberg 91裸聊视频� a former Panther, who was parked in front of the Florida net 91裸聊视频� redirected it past Bobrovsky for New York91裸聊视频檚 second consecutive OT game-winner in the series.

Shesterkin made 33 stops, while Alexis Lafreni猫re scored two goals and Barclay Goodrow continued his surprising playoff barrage with two more scores for the Rangers. Goodrow has six goals in the playoffs, after four in the entire regular season.

91裸聊视频淗e91裸聊视频檚 been a key contributor,91裸聊视频� Rangers coach Peter Laviolette said.

Sam Reinhart had two power-play goals, while Aleksander Barkov and Gustav Forsling also scored for the Panthers, who91裸聊视频檒l play host to Game 4 on Tuesday night. Bobrovsky stopped 18 shots for Florida, which has dropped back-to-back games for the first time in these playoffs.

91裸聊视频淪ometimes you want to keep the growl,91裸聊视频� Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. 91裸聊视频淎 lot of times in the playoffs, it91裸聊视频檚 making sure that you keep that energy full, that you cut off your losses and let it go. Then there91裸聊视频檚 times you want to keep it and eat it and let it burn for a while and find a different kind of energy source. 91裸聊视频� Tonight, you should be a little growly.91裸聊视频�

New York led 4-2 going into the third. The Rangers were 26-0-1 this season entering Sunday in games where they led by two or more goals with 20 minutes remaining.

They made it 27-0-1 91裸聊视频� but it took some serious doing, and survival of Florida throwing everything it could toward Shesterkin.

Barkov and Forsling scored less than two minutes apart in the third to erase that two-goal deficit, and Florida caught a break 91裸聊视频� the right break 91裸聊视频� with 7:34 left when Barkov was originally called for a high-stick that would have given the Rangers a 4-minute power play. But after review, it was determined that Mika Zibanejad was hit with his own stick and the Barkov penalty came off the board.

From there, the rest of regulation was, depending on perspective, either all Panthers or all Shesterkin.

Over the last 8:10 of the third, the NHL credited 24 shot attempts 91裸聊视频� all of them by Florida, as the Panthers just unleashed a barrage on Shesterkin. Of the 24 shot tries, only six were on goal and needed to be saved; nine were blocked, eight missed and one hit the post.

None found the back of the net, and to overtime the teams went.

91裸聊视频淥bviously, we91裸聊视频檙e not happy with the end result,91裸聊视频� Barkov said.

Probably long forgotten by the finish was the wild start, a complete flip of how the first two games went at Madison Square Garden when Bobrovsky gave up two goals and Shesterkin gave up two goals 91裸聊视频� not including an own goal and an empty-netter 91裸聊视频� in 134 minutes of play.

Sunday was different. It was 2-2 after 15 minutes.

Reinhart opened the scoring, Lafreni猫re and Goodrow scored 25 seconds apart 91裸聊视频� the fifth-fastest pair of goals in Rangers playoff history 91裸聊视频� for a 2-1 New York lead. Reinhart tied it later in the first on a goal very similar to his first one, a backhander he lifted past Shesterkin from down low.

Lafreni猫re and Goodrow each tallied again in the second, Florida answered in the third. But it was the Rangers who struck last, and they91裸聊视频檙e now just two wins away from their first trip to the Stanley Cup Final since 2014.

91裸聊视频淭his team, we have that belief,91裸聊视频� Wennberg said. 91裸聊视频淢aybe not the most vocal kind of thing, but we all look at each other and we know what to do.91裸聊视频�

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