
Rangers’ Game 1 goose-egg vs. Panthers a Garden rarity
NY Post
Sergei Bobrovsky saw 23 shots on Wednesday night, and he stopped every last one of them.
The Panthers netminder accomplished a rarity in the Eastern Conference Final-opening 3-0 win at the Garden, serving the Rangers with their first blanking of the postseason — and only the second since the 2023-24 season began.
The last time the Blueshirts were held goalless was a 4-0 Dec. 9 loss to the rival Capitals.
Washington was also the last visiting team to serve up a shutout at MSG, another 4-0 result, on Dec. 27, 2022.
But one would have to go back even further to find the last time a team held the Rangers to a goose egg on home ice in the playoffs.
The last time they failed to score at the Garden in a playoff game was a 5-0 loss to the Penguins in Game 4 of an eventual first-round loss during the 2016 postseason.

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












