{"id":482283,"date":"2024-04-23T22:33:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T02:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482283"},"modified":"2024-04-23T22:33:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T02:33:06","slug":"rangers-defeat-capitals-4-3-in-new-york-for-2-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rangers-defeat-capitals-4-3-in-new-york-for-2-0-series-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers defeat Capitals 4-3 in New York for 2-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Trocheck and Mika Zibanejad each notched and assisted, and the Presidents&#8217; Trophy-winning NY Rangers held on to defeat the Washington Capitals 4-3 at Madison Square Garden for a 2-0 lead in their 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round postseason matchup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GAME 2. \u2714\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoQuitInNY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NoQuitInNY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/letLYTII7A\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/letLYTII7A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; x &#8211; New York Rangers (@NYRangers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYRangers\/status\/1782949728071692623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jack Roslovic and K&#8217;Andre Miller also notched for New York, and Erik Gustafsson and Alexis Lafreniere each provided 2 assists. Igor Shesterkin made 22 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers, looking for its 1<sup>st<\/sup> Stanley Cup trophy in 30 seasons, has triumphed in 4 consecutive and 12 of its last 15 matches. New York, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> on the power play during the campaign, was 2 for 6 with the advantage and notched a short-handed goal.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Wilson scored and assisted, and Connor McMichael and Dylan Strome also notched for Washington, who had won 4 of 5 to close the campaign and secure the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> wild card in the East. Goalie Charlie Lindgren stopped 23 shots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IT. TAKES. EVERYONE. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PSt6nomLnM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/PSt6nomLnM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; x &#8211; New York Rangers (@NYRangers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYRangers\/status\/1782952782695186630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Game 3 of the best-of-7 matchup is Friday at the USA capital.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UBrYfSG3_8o?si=L2z_mPUNFLR76SGx\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Trocheck and Mika Zibanejad each notched and assisted, and the Presidents&#8217; Trophy-winning NY Rangers held on to defeat the Washington Capitals 4-3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482284,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16716,17844,17091],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[17850,17894,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The team from the Big Apple won the 1st 2 games of the series.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482285,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482283\/revisions\/482285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482283"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482283"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}