- SNY
Rangers dismiss Capitals, 3-1, take 3-0 first-round series lead
Igor Shesterkin made multiple marvelous saves after giving up an early soft goal and the Rangers’ special teams squashed the Washington Capitals in a 3-1 win to take a 3-0 series lead.
- New York Post
Rangers, Capitals have plenty of thrilling playoff history in nation's capital
WASHINGTON — I walked into the cramped visitors' locker room following Friday morning's optional skate hours in advance of this Rangers-Caps Game 3 and my mind's eye saw Chris Drury sitting in the first stall to the right. I wasn't envisioning Drury, the club's current general manager. Instead, I was envisioning Drury, No. 23 and the club's captain in 2011, talking softly to me, head bowed, after the Rangers' five-game, first-round elimination to the Caps. That turned out to be the final game of Drury's NHL career. I walked deeper into the room and when K'Andre Miller plunked himself down in the middle of the row to the left, my mind's eye saw Ryan McDonagh, hunched over and exhausted after getting
- SNY
Rangers’ depth proving to be difference early on in first round matchup with Capitals
The Rangers' depth has stepped up tremendously over the first two games of their first round series with the Washington Capitals.
All Players
| No | Player | P |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | C | |
| 72 | C | |
| 50 | LW | |
| 70 | G | |
| 84 | C | |
| 23 | D | |
| 21 | C | |
| 56 | D | |
| 6 | D | |
| 24 | RW | |
| 20 | LW | |
| 13 | LW | |
| 55 | D | |
| 14 | D | |
| 79 | D | |
| 10 | LW | |
| 32 | G | |
| 73 | C | |
| 96 | C | |
| 5 | D | |
| 4 | D | |
| 31 | G | |
| 38 | LW | |
| 16 | C | |
| 8 | D | |
| 26 | LW | |
| 91 | C | |
| 17 | RW | |
| 93 | C |