Image this: Matt Rempe will get the puck on his stick skating full velocity at Senators goalie Anton Forsberg.
His linemate Adam Edstrom had handed the puck off the wall to himself earlier than chipping it to Rempe within the center streaking down Broadway inside a rumbling Madison Sq. Backyard.
For a second, time slowed down because the 6-foot-8 ½ ahead finessed the puck to his backhand earlier than burying with out hesitation for a three-goal lead on the way in which to the Rangers’ 5-0 drubbing of the Senators on Tuesday evening.
“It’s fairly thrilling, me and Eddy — one in all my finest buddies — to attach like that,” Rempe stated. “I believe that we’ve been taking part in rather well collectively. I believe we simply hold it going.”
Tuesday evening was Rempe’s seventh straight look after serving an eight-game suspension for elbowing/boarding Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen.
The Rangers are 5-0-2 over that span.
Whereas there’s a lot extra that has gone into the Rangers’ turnaround, it could be negligent to not acknowledge how Rempe’s presence has factored into it.
The fourth line, of Rempe, Edstrom and Sam Carrick, outshot the Senators 6-1 once they had been on the ice. This along with proudly owning a 3-1 edge in high-danger possibilities, in line with Pure Stat Trick.
“I believe I can convey lots of physicality, however I believe I could make performs with the puck and use my physique and velocity, be good defensively,” stated Rempe, who has a objective and help on the season. “I’ve been working quite a bit on my performs with the puck and I believe the extra I work the extra snug I get, the extra I could make performs.
“Take a breath on the market, attempt to discover the following go, attempt to proceed O-zone sequences and I believe I can do this.”
Head coach Peter Laviolette credited Rempe with the poise he confirmed to attain the objective he did.
When it got here right down to needing a bodily deterrent, nevertheless, Rempe was current and accounted for.
An enormous scuffle broke out within the third interval after Brady Tkachuk barreled into Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin, who appeared shaken up earlier than he sought retribution and went after the Senators captain.
Rempe instantly went to affix Shesterkin and though refs had Massive No. 73 tied up, he nonetheless got here out of the scrum with Tkachuk in his grasp. The 2 tried to commerce punches across the ref who was holding them aside.
“A bit of nervous trigger I don’t need something to occur to him, however I find it irresistible,” Rempe stated of what was going via his thoughts when he noticed Shesterkin go after Tkachuk. “Simply trigger he’s a competitor. Simply wish to be certain I get in there and nothing occurs. It was superior, Igor’s the person.”
The Rangers prolonged their level streak to 9 video games (6-0-3) to achieve the 50-point mark on the season.
Shesterkin posted back-to-back shutouts for the fifth time in his profession and second time in as many seasons.
The star Russian netminder is one in all solely three goalies in franchise historical past to perform the feat on 5 events, following Lorne Chabot (six instances) and Ed Giacomin (5).