Bobby Bevilacqua

Rick Nash with a great game in the season opener, scoring 2 goals and tallying and assist.

The Rangers began the 2014-2015 with a victory in a surprisingly chippy game against a St. Louis team that won 52 games last year. New York won on a late goal in the third period by Rick Nash, who also scored another goal in the first period and assisted on Kreider’s goal in the third.

The Rangers came out firing on all cylinders. The first period was dominated by New York. They had twice as many shots as St. Louis, and skaters all over the ice were blocking shots and using the stick effectively, by making timely poke checks and deflecting shots from the Blues. St. Louis had just two shots at the nine minute mark of the first period. Read the rest of this entry →