Vladislav Gavrikov didn’t look like he would finish the game.

Then, he helped end it.

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After getting drilled with a high slap shot early in the second period — requiring a stoppage of play and an on-ice visit from Rangers trainer Andy Hosler after Gavrikov fell to a knee — the team’s big free agent acquisition went to the bench, then returned to deliver a pair of game-deciding assists in the team’s 3-2 win over the Blues at Madison Square Garden .

“[It was] not in the face, that’s most important,” Gavrikov said. “Everything was fine after that. It just took a few minutes to get it ba

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