PHILADELPHIA – Mika Zibanejad made three goals and three assists, Adam Fox made five assists and Rangers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 8-3 on Thursday night.
Pavel Buchnevich scored two goals, and Ryan Strome, K’Andre Miller and Filip Chytil also scored in Rangers’ victory for the third consecutive time and for the fifth in the last seven games.
Claude Giroux, Kevin Hayes and Sean Couturier scored for the Flyers, who lost four in a row and 10 of 14.
The teams would meet eight days after the Rangers’ 9-0 home win over the Flyers, and New York continued where it left off at the start of this one.
Rangers scored three consecutive goals in the opening period and then scored two power-play goals in the first 2:06 of the second to chase goalkeeper Carter Hart, who allowed five goals in 10 shots. They scored another goal 36 seconds later on their first shot at Brian Elliott.
Eleven kicks, six goals and a 15-0 goal take place in two games.
Ryan Strome provided three assists for Rangers, led by coach Kris Knoblauch for the fifth straight game. Igor Shesterkin made 41 saves.
Zibanejad scored the first with 6:24 towards the end of the first half, after a deflection by a kick from Fox in the end to make it 3-0. His second 54 seconds in the second period in the power play was a stopwatch after a cross pass by Fox, and he got his third 1:12 later in a slap shot from the slot.
That was the end of the day for the sunken Hart, who allowed 16 goals in a three-game skid.
Miller scored on a blue-line wrister who looked to have hit defender Shayne Gostisbehere on the first shot at Elliott.
Zibanejad got the sixth point with the third assist to Buchnevich’s goal, 33 seconds into the third.
Strome extended his streak of points to seven straight games with his 11th goal of the season at 8:01 in the competition to give New York a 1-0 lead, finishing off a beautiful pass from Artemi Panarin with a one-timer to Hart’s left . Strome has two goals and 10 assists in a row.