MONTREAL – As the frustration level kept rising after the Rangers kept getting stoned by hot goalies and failing to find ways to score goals and win games, the players and coach Mike Sullivan kept repeating that if they kept generating chances they had been, the goals would come, eventually.
They got some goals Saturday night in the finale of their two-game road trip, one in the first period and three in quick succession in the third, and the relative offensive explosion helped them rally from an early two-goal deficit and push them to a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre.
Mika Zibanejad’s power-play goal midway through the first period was the first of four straight for the Rangers, who also got goals from J.T. Miller, defenseman Matthew Robertson and Artemi Pana