Rangers give up 5 goals in third period fall to Blackhawks 6
NHenrik Lundqvist
CHICAGO — It all unraveled quite quickly Wednesday night for the Rangers  who through 39 minutes were holding a one-goal lead as  Henrik Lundqvist  withstood a second-period siege.
Suddenly the improved structure that had pulled the Rangers out of their early-season pit of misery  keyed them to six straight wins and was even present against the Blackhawks in the first period started to fracture. So badly that  Henrik Lundqvist  was pulled in the third period of the Rangers’ 6-3 loss after  he  was stellar through two periods.
“We weren’t defending at all ” Alain Vigneault said of his decision to replace  Lundqvist  with Ondrej Pavelec at 6:28 of the third after Chicago scored three goals in the first 5:14 of the period to take a 4-1 lead.
The Rangers (9-8-2) were outshot 34-17 over the final two periods.  Lundqvist  was turning away everything in sight in a hectic second until an Alex DeBrincat shot  which  Lundqvist  said  he  saw late  trickled through  his  legs and rolled over the goal line with 51.6 seconds left in the period  tying the game at 1 apiece.
 NHenrik Lundqvist  was pulled after allowing four goals. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)
Anisimov’s first happened after Ryan McDonagh had the puck stolen in the corner by Patrick Kane and Anisimov was left open cutting to goal.  His  second  a power-play goal  came on a third-chance jam at the top of the crease. John Hayden’s goal to make it 3-1 came when Kevin Shattenkirk was caught puck watching and was then beaten to a loose puck in the slot.
CHICAGO — It all unraveled quite quickly Wednesday night for the Rangers  who through 39 minutes were holding a one-goal lead as  Henrik Lundqvist  withstood a second-period siege.
Suddenly the improved structure that had pulled the Rangers out of their early-season pit of misery  keyed them to six straight wins and was even present against the Blackhawks in the first period started to fracture. So badly that  Henrik Lundqvist  was pulled in the third period of the Rangers’ 6-3 loss after  he  was stellar through two periods.
“We weren’t defending at all ” Alain Vigneault said of his decision to replace  Lundqvist  with Ondrej Pavelec at 6:28 of the third after Chicago scored three goals in the first 5:14 of the period to take a 4-1 lead.
The Rangers (9-8-2) were outshot 34-17 over the final two periods.  Lundqvist  was turning away everything in sight in a hectic second until an Alex DeBrincat shot  which  Lundqvist  said  he  saw late  trickled through  his  legs and rolled over the goal line with 51.6 seconds left in the period  tying the game at 1 apiece.
 [TGT]  was pulled after allowing four goals. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)
Anisimov’s first happened after Ryan McDonagh had the puck stolen in the corner by Patrick Kane and Anisimov was left open cutting to goal.  His  second  a power-play goal  came on a third-chance jam at the top of the crease. John Hayden’s goal to make it 3-1 came when Kevin Shattenkirk was caught puck watching and was then beaten to a loose puck in the slot.