Gilmour scores OT winner, Lundqvist stops 50 as Rangers top Canucks 6-5
VANCOUVER — After enduring a long losing streak, goaltender Henrik Lundqvist didn’t much care how the New York Rangers won a hockey game.
Lundqvist made a season-high 50 saves but the Rangers still needed John Gilmour’s overtime goal to defeat the Vancouver Canucks 6-5 Wednesday night in a wild NHL game.
“It just feels good to win a game, to sit here and smile for once,” Lundqvist said. “I am just tired of losing so I don’t care how we win it, just as long as we win it.”
The win snapped a seven-game New York losing streak (0-6-1). It also came after the struggling Rangers had jettison several of their high-profile players at Monday’s NHL trade deadline.