{"id":482409,"date":"2024-04-26T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482409"},"modified":"2024-04-26T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T02:47:07","slug":"rangers-defeat-capitals-3-1-in-washington-to-take-3-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rangers-defeat-capitals-3-1-in-washington-to-take-3-0-series-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers defeat Capitals 3-1 in Washington to take 3-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Trocheck scored from power-play and had a short-handed assist, Igor Shesterkin stopped 27 shots, and the NY Rangers moved 1 victory away from eliminating the Washington Capitals after a 3-1 win in Game 3 at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, taking a 3-0 lead in their 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round matchup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GAME 3. \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\/t6RRf5MK73\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/t6RRf5MK73<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; x &#8211; New York Rangers (@NYRangers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYRangers\/status\/1784035996415209743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>New York notched goals at even-strength 5 on 5, up 5 on 4 and down 4 on 5 in a special teams showcase as Rangers secured the top record in the National Hockey League during the regular-campaign in part because of their power play.<\/p>\n<p>A major reason for the franchise from the Big Apple to have the chance to sweep their opponent is that they only trailed in this 1 for 34 seconds until Kreider evened the result. New York notched short-handed goals in straight postseason matches for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since April 1990.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"eu\" dir=\"ltr\">Igor Shesterkin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tS3WRKBR1e\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tS3WRKBR1e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; x &#8211; New York Rangers (@NYRangers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYRangers\/status\/1784042453890449696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s potential opponent in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round is the Carolina Hurricanes, as they also had a 3-0 series lead against the Islanders.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mZfHfnBHrzw?si=eIUWd06pDNgB1N9X\" 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 scored from power-play and had a short-handed assist, Igor Shesterkin stopped 27 shots, and the NY Rangers moved 1 victory away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482410,"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":"Special teams secured the victory for New York.","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\/482409"}],"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=482409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482411,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482409\/revisions\/482411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482409"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482409"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}