BOSTON — Vincent Trocheck scored his second goal of the game 2:03 into overtime and the New York Rangers rallied to beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 Saturday night in a matchup of the Eastern Conference’s top two teams.
Igor Shesterkin made 22 saves for the Rangers, who have won three of their last four games.
New York is tied with Boston with 43 points atop the conference, but the Rangers have two more wins.
Trent Frederic scored for the Bruins and Jeremy Swayman stopped 31 shots.
Boston had won five of its last seven games.
Trocheck tied it with a power-play goal on a wrister from the slot with 9:10 left in the third period.
On the game winner, Artemi Panarin sent a pass from the slot to Trocheck near the left side of the crease, where he fired it past Swayman.
As part of the Bruins’ 100th season in which they’re honoring different team eras, they had a pregame on-ice ceremony to commemorate what they called the “Lunch Pail Era” from 1977-85.
Frederic’s goal, appropriately, fit into that type of play when he went hard to the net and knocked a loose puck behind Shesterkin 2:07 into the second period after forward James van Riemsdyk sent a backhand pass from the right circle.
Frederic later fought Jacob Trouba after Boston rookie Matt Poitras left the ice favoring his right shoulder following a hit into the boards by Erik Gustafssson.
Boston star David Pastrnak was given a 5-minute major and a game misconduct for boarding Ryan Lindgren.
The Bruins killed off a 3-minute power play, with Swayman making a right-shoulder stop on Trocheck’s wrister from the slot.
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