Recap
Lafrenière scores twice as Rangers beat Lightning 4-1
The New York Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-1 on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. Alexis Lafrenière scored twice in the first period, opening the scoring at 1:02 with help from Tye Kartye and Adam Fox, then making it 2-0 midway through the period off feeds from Kartye and J.T. Miller. Zemgus Girgensons answered late in the first for Tampa Bay with his first of the season, but Will Cuylle restored the two-goal lead late in the second, and Mika Zibanejad sealed it with a shorthanded empty-net goal in the third. The Rangers never trailed.
Lafrenière, Kartye, Adam Fox and Marcus Pettersson each finished with two points for New York. Dylan Garand made 25 saves on 26 shots to get the win, while Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 19 of 22 shots for Tampa Bay, which outshot the Rangers 26-23. Neither power play connected, with both teams going 0 for 4. The Rangers improved to 6-2-0; the Lightning fell to 4-2-0.
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