“Zibanejads show in the night: ”Maybe not the best looking””
“NEW YORK. Mika Zibanejad had a party in Manhattan in the night.”
“He scored two goals and played up to two additional when the New York Rangers broke the recent negative trend and swept to the Carolina with 6-2.”
“– It is nice to get that type of dividends. When growing self-confidence so you dare to do a little more stuff, “says the 25-year-old centre party to Sportbladet”
“It doesn’t matter that they themselves are in the middle of perhaps his best season in a decade – and that the New York Rangers at the same time find themselves in a not entirely smooth, the ”rebuild”.”
“the Carolina Hurricanes just can’t win at Madison Square Garden. They have not done it since January 2011 – not a single time in eight years! and they did it not in the night either.”
“this time it was mainly Mika Zibanejad, with the willing assistance of kedjekamraterna Mats Zuccarello and Chris Kreider, and the powerplay-his companion Pavel Buchnevich, who destroyed the visit on Broadway.”
“in Total, the quartet for eleven points and the sharpest of all was the ”DJ Zbad” with two goals and two assists – and several bids on the completed the hat-trick.”
“– Yes, hehe, I have a little difficult to close when it is time for the third goal, ” he says happily smiling when we meet him afterwards.”
“– It is nice to get that type of dividends. When growing self-confidence so you dare to do some more stuff. Now they were here, the objectives and the press before maybe not the prettiest in his career, but still.”
“Well, at the end of the first period, as the ”Zucca” played up to, with a neat little pass backwards between their own legs without looking, it was really no fault.”
” I’ve seen him do it several times and missed on a couple of occasions, he he. But now I was on it. He is the type of player, he has eyes in the back of the neck. One of those, it is fun to play with.”
“Mika heaping all praise on the kedjekamraterna – and the whole team.”
“– In and of itself, I think we were even better over the 60 minutes against the Islanders on Saturday. But it still felt like we were on our toes directly tonight. The whole team. We took our chances and we took advantage of our powerplay. It was nice.”
“Henrik Lundqvist was back in the bag after two straight games on the bench at the weekend and he responded with his most solid bet in a couple of weeks; stopped 34 shots and made a couple of really refined, however, with a benparad at the end of the second period as the particular exclamation point.”
” Mm, now it feels okay. We defend ourselves well in this match, especially in penalty killing, and when we do it, it feels like we have a good chance, for objective we can do. You just have to get to it defensively,” he said.”
“– But it is a little especially with the situation we find ourselves in. I have seen you write that we are in crisis and hi, and ha, but this is no crisis. We have staged a ”rebuild” and knew that the season would be a challenge. We expected to be where we are, so it’s just. But you want to anyway, so much and sometimes it is difficult to find the right ”mindset”. Fixed that said, today it worked and we will try to build on it.”
“San Jose–Pittsburgh 5-2 (2-1, 1-0, 2-1)nSan Jose: Tomas Hertl 3, Marcus Sörensen (9) (Erik Karlsson), Joe Thornton. Goalie: Martin Jones 91,7 percent. Pittsburgh: Kris Letang, Derick Brassard. Goalkeeper: Matthew Murray 85.7 per cent.”
“Dallas–Tampa Bay 0-2 (0-1, 0-0, 0-1)nDallas: Goalie: Anton Khudobin 90,5 per cent. Tampa Bay: Ondrej Palat, Mikhail Sergatjev. Goalkeeper: Andrei Vasilevsky 100 per cent.”
“Winnipeg–Vegas 4-1 (0-0, 2-0, 2-1)nWinnipeg: Kyle Connor 2, Mathieu Perreault, Mark Scheifele. Goalie: Laurent Brossoit 97,7%. Vegas: Brandon Pirri. Goalkeeper: Marc–Andre Fleury 92.0 per cent.”
“Nashville–Washington, 7-2 (2-0, 4-1, 1-1)nNashville: Viktor Arvidsson 3 (17) (Mattias Ekholm 1, Filip Forsberg 1), Nick Bonino 2 (Ekholm 1), Rocco Grimaldi, Calle Hook (8). Goaltender: Juuse Saros 92,9 percent. Washington: Nicklas Backstrom (12), T. J. Oshie. Goalkeeper: Phoenix Copley 75,9 per cent.”
“the Minnesota–Los Angeles, 3-2 e str (0-0, 1-1, 1-1, 0-0, 1-0)nMinnesota: Nino Niederreiter (Joel Eriksson Ek), Eric Staal, Jason Zucker (key str). Goalie: Alex Stalock 93,9 per cent. Los Angeles: Ilya Kovaltjuk, Jeff Carter (Adrian Kempe). Goalie: Jonathan Quick 95.2 percent.”
“the Montreal–Florida 5-1 (0-1, 3-0, 2-0)nMontreal: Shea Weber, Phillip Danault, Max Domi, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Brendan Gallagher. Goalie: Antti Niemi 98.1 per cent. Florida: Mike Hoffman. Goalie: James Reimer 85,2 per cent.”
“the Detroit–Anaheim 3-1 (0-0, 0-1, 3-0)nDetroit: Anthony Mantha, Gustav Nyquist (11), Darren Helm. Goalie: Jimmy Howard was 95.8 per cent. Anaheim: Rickard Rakell (7). Goalkeeper: John Gibson 88.0 per cent.”
“the NEW Rangers–Carolina 6-2 (3-1, 1-0, 2-1)nNY Rangers: Pavel Butjnevitj 2 (Mika Zibanejad 2), Anthony DeAngelo 2, Mika Zibanejad 2 (14). Goalie: Henrik Lundqvist 94.4 percent. Carolina: Saku Mäenalanen 2 (Victor Rask 1). Goalie: Curtis McElhinney 78.6 per cent.”
“NY Islanders–St. Louis 2-1 e l (1-0, 0-0, 0-1, 1-0)nNY Islanders: Jordan Eberle, Valtteri Filppula. Goalie: Robin Lehner up 96.8 percent. St. Louis: David Perron. Goalkeeper: Jordan Binnington 92.0 per cent.”
“Columbus–New Jersey 4-1 (3-0, 1-1, 0-0)nColumbus: Cam Atkinson, Boone Jenner, Artemij Panarin, Pierre–Luc Dubois. Goalkeeper: Joonas Korpisalo 96.7 per cent. New Jersey: Blake Coleman. Goalie: Keith Kinkaid 88.2%.”
