Rangers striker Artemy Panarin scored four goals in a game for the first time in his career – Carolina found itself under a hot hand. “” chronicles this historic event.
Panarin: “Today the match went like clockwork”
An absolutely brilliant game was given by Artemiy Panarin away against Carolina. He scored four goals in one game for the first time in the NHL, and his Rangers earned an impressive 6-2 victory over the Capital Division favorites.
Four goals, for the first time in my life,” Panarin said after the game. “If I knew how to explain it, I would. I don’t know what happened today. Maybe it’s just my day. It is a surprise. Sometimes I have the same feeling that today everything should work out, but in the end – zero points. But now the game was going like clockwork.
As they say in such cases, nothing foreshadowed. “Rangers” played the day before – against “Seattle” (6:3). It’s difficult to play in such a competitive league two days in a row. The game was away, and the most trusted veteran, Yaroslav Galak, failed to defend the gates for New Yorkers.
At the same time, Carolina rested for eight days and was cool to the point of impossibility. And who was supposed to win in this scenario? However, either the Hurricanes were too relaxed at the resorts, or the Rangers got frantic courage, but we saw a Broadway Boys extravaganza. Specifically, a guy, because there’s an expression “it wasn’t Beckham’s day”, but it really was “Panarin’s day”. February 11, mark it on your calendar.
Even in Carolina, caps in honor of Khlebushka flew on the ice
We will repeat again: nothing foreshadowed – in the middle of the match Carolina led 2: 1. Panarin played in a trio with Mika Zibanejad and Vladimir Tarasenko. A lot is expected from this link, and in the last game the team of Khlebushushka and Taras already scored a goal in the third minute. But still, the right chemistry has not yet developed there.
And if you are surprised that Panarin finally scored 5 points (4 + 1) with +4 utility, but Tarasenko did not score anything and remained at zero, then I will say that the Panarin-Zibanejad-Tarasenko link in equal compositions played seven minutes, and according to advanced statistics, it looked bad. This trio was dominated.
We also saw the Kreider – Zibanejad – Tarasenko link, and it also looked bad, judging by the advanced stats.
But the link that formed later Vesi – Trochek – Panarin completely died out, gaining 9 points (4 + 5), so it is not a fact that Tarasenko will continue to play on the same link with Panarin. The experiments at Rangers continue.
In the 38th minute, Artemy got to work rolling up his sleeves.
Once – Panarin broke through on the right flank and delivered a biting wrist shot, which the Carolina goalkeeper could not cope with.
Two – a dashing Rangers attack on the move, one shot, another, and Panarin puts the puck in the net.
Three – Panarin runs one down on the poor Hurricanes goaltender, implementing an impromptu shootout.
Caps flew off the ice in Raleigh because there were enough Rangers fans in the stands. Moreover, the Russian striker produced a ‘natural hat-trick’, scoring three goals in a row. If you count in the past 30 years, Rangers have scored eight hat-tricks: Mika Zibanejad (twice), Martin Straka, Marian Gaborik, Michael Grabner, Chris Kreider, Andrew Kopp and now Panarin.
Panarin scores his 200th career NHL goal
When the score became 2:4 in the 56th minute, Carolina simply stopped playing. The guests enjoyed it. Another goal was scored by Kaapo Kakko. And then Panarin actually sent the puck into the net with a turn, playing poker.
— I liked the game. We played a great game against a very good team,” said Rangers coach Gerard Gallant. The Hurricanes are one of the best teams in the NHL. They score a lot of goals, apply a lot of pressure and create a lot of good chances.
More importantly, Panarin scored his 200th NHL goal. In the history of Russian hockey, only 18 players have reached this height.
Although Panarin is more focused on passing, as two-thirds of the points scored are assists. More importantly, Khlebushek is among the 5 Most Valuable Russians in NHL history.
Sergei Fedorov – +261;
Pavel Datsyuk – +249;
Vladimir Konstantinov – +185;
Sergei Zubov – +148;
Artemi Panarin – +135.
In the last four games, Artemy has given a goal streak, scoring nine points. So Panarin is now really on a roll.
“The man with the Nokia phone”, as he says of himself. And if you ask the Topic something, he replies, “You know, I don’t read the news.”
But he is making the news. And today Khlebushek made our day!
Source : MatchTV
I’m Emma Smith, a dedicated journalist and avid storyteller. I have been writing for news websites for the past 5 years, reporting on hockey news and delivering in-depth analysis of the sport. In my current role as Author at Athletistic, I write about hockey events from around the world to keep followers up-to-date with what’s happening in the sport.
