Vincent Trocheck on Tuesday scored in the second overtime for the New York Rangers to the beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 to take a 2-0 lead in the second-round playoff series, while an overtime goal from Miles Wood gave the Colorado Avalanche a 4-3 victory over the Dallas Stars.
Trocheck struggled to describe the feeling when he scored a power-play goal off a rebound at 7 minutes, 24 seconds of the second extra period.
“I don’t know. I’ll watch it and let you know tomorrow,” he said. “Typically when those games go into overtime, double overtime, any team could win those games.”
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Alexis Lafreniere scored twice, Chris Kreider also had a power-play goal and Artemi Panarin added three assists for the Rangers. Igor Shesterkin stopped a season-high 54 shots.
“Igor played an Igor-esque type game. He was outstanding, kept us in the game,” Trocheck said. “It’s tough to beat our team when he’s making saves like he was tonight.”
The Rangers won their sixth consecutive game in the playoffs, and eighth straight dating to the regular season. New York got their first overtime playoff win since Game 7 of the first round in 2022 against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
In Texas, Wood screamed for the puck, and delivered the game-winner on a hard-charging backhander 11:03 into overtime after getting the puck from Andrew Cogliano.
After trailing by three goals in the first period, the Avalanche beat the top-seeded Stars in the opener of their second-round Western Conference series.
“Instead of just turning and firing it ... [Cogliano] gets his eyes up and Wood was fresh and went slashing through their D,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. “When Woody get’s going like that, he’s hard to stop. He’s fast and he’s powerful, and he just took it to the house.”
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