Callahan's hat trick helps Rangers beat Philly again
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02/11/2012 -
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ryan Callahan's second career hat trick
helped the Rangers continue their winning ways against the Flyers this season,
as New York exited Philadelphia on Saturday with a 5-2 victory.
Marian Gaborik added a goal and three assists for the Rangers, who have won
all five of their meetings with the Flyers this season and increased their
winning streak in the series to seven games.
Artem Anisimov also lit the lamp for New York, which now leads Philadelphia in
the Atlantic Division standings by six points. Henrik Lundqvist made 31 saves
in the victory.
Wayne Simmonds had a goal and an assist for the Flyers, who have lost four of
five. Claude Giroux also scored.
Sergei Bobrovsky turned aside 21-of-26 shots in defeat.
The story of the game was the power play. New York was 3-for-7 with the man
advantage, while Philly went 0-for-4.
The Rangers started the game with a power-play goal from Callahan at the 8:25
mark of the first period. After taking a pass from Gaborik, Callahan managed
to score from a tough angle along the goal line.
Simmonds made it a tie game at the 13:03 mark. Andrej Meszaros' blast from the
right point deflected off Simmonds' leg and past Lundqvist.
New York, though, scored again on the man advantage with 3:20 left to make it
2-1. Brad Richards controlled the puck at the top of the right circle and
passed in front to Gaborik, who quickly redirected the puck past Bobrovsky.
The back-and-forth battle continued 6:36 into the middle stanza. A nice pass
from Simmonds put Giroux on a breakaway. Lundqvist put his arm down along the
line to stop Giroux's initial shot, but the Flyers forward was able to jam the
puck into the net.
But the Rangers swung the momentum back in their favor with another power-play
goal. The visitors got set up in the offensive zone, which resulted in Michael
Del Zotto controlling the puck in front of the net. His pass across the crease
led to Callahan's second goal of the contest.
New York put the game away with a pair of goals in the third stanza. Just 6:28
into the frame, Gaborik slid a pass from below the goal line to the right
circle for Derek Stepan, who slid the disc to the slot. From there, Anisimov
put the puck into the back of the net for a 4-2 margin.
Callahan completed his hat trick at the 11:25 mark. With Bobrovsky sprawled
out on the ice, Callahan lifted the puck over the goaltender and into the net.
Game Notes
Both of Callahan's hat tricks have come against the Flyers...New York was
without forward Ruslan Fedotenko after he took a shoulder to the head from
Tampa Bay's Dominic Moore on Thursday...The Rangers have outscored the Flyers
29-10 over the past seven encounters, shutting them out twice...The Rangers
scored three power-play goals in a game for the first time since March 15,
2011.
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