Ok’Andre Miller was all over the place throughout Rangers’ first-period explosion
The Rangers exploded for six objectives within the first interval.
Defenseman Ok’Andre Miller had a hand in 4 of them.
Ending Sunday night’s 7-0 win over the Predators with two objectives and two assists, Miller grew to become the primary defenseman in Rangers historical past to report 4 factors in a single interval.
He additionally joined Adam Fox, Tony DeAngelo and Tom Poti because the fourth Rangers blueliner this century to report 4 factors in a recreation.
The 23-year-old defenseman scored his seventh and eighth objectives of the season to ascertain a brand new career-high within the blowout victory.
Along with giving the Rangers a 4-0 lead after which a 6-0 lead within the first interval, Miller assisted on Filip Chytil’s opening rating and notched the secondary helper on Tyler Motte’s 3-0 purpose.
“I can’t complain,” Miller mentioned after the win, which improved the Rangers to 41-19-10.
“It was fairly enjoyable. I can’t let you know the final time one thing like that’s occurred, however the puck was discovering me. Couple good bounces. Like I mentioned, can’t complain.”
Miller has already surpassed his earlier career-highs in assists (13) and factors (20).
After Sunday’s four-point night time, Miller now has 38 factors in 67 video games.
It was additionally the primary multi-goal recreation of his NHL profession.
“He’s coming each recreation,” head coach Gerard Gallant mentioned of Miller. “Clearly, tonight’s recreation, Ok’Andre was excellent. He wasn’t dishonest, he wasn’t dishonest the defensive aspect of the sport. He made his rushes and he made his performs and he put pucks to the online.
“I assumed he was excellent tonight and getting 4 factors in a single interval is one thing else for him.”
Ryan Lindgren was sidelined with a shoulder injury for the eleventh straight recreation.
Gallant mentioned he would “guess lots” that the defenseman will likely be prepared for the following recreation on Tuesday in opposition to Carolina.
Jaroslav Halak earned the beginning nod Sunday, his twentieth begin of the season.
The Slovakian netminder posted his first shutout since he blanked the Rangers twice through the 2020-21 season, when he was with the Bruins.
The Rangers celebrated Girls’s Historical past Month on Sunday by internet hosting Girls’s Empowerment Evening.
Within the days main as much as the occasion, the Rangers hosted Girls’s Ball Hockey NYC on the Backyard ice and donated $10,000 to the group to assist fund its programming and entry to gear.
A panel of ladies inside the hockey and sports activities neighborhood held a pre-game dialogue specializing in the significance of gender fairness, women and girls in sports activities and the expansion of ladies’s hockey.
The U.S. Nationwide Crew’s Megan Bozek, Maria Dennis, who’s the NHLPA’s director of gamers well being and security, in addition to Stephane Matteau of the Rangers alumni group, sat down with MSG Community’s Michelle Gingras.
The Rangers additionally wore customized jerseys designed by native artist Lily Padula.
These jerseys will likely be auctioned off between March 19-26 and the proceeds will go to Women Inc. — a non-profit devoted to life reworking packages for women and younger girls all through New York Metropolis — and the Backyard of Goals Basis.