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Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin out for the season with knee injury after fall against Capitals · Best of: Features

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  Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin out for the season with knee injury after
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  fall against Capitals. This article is being read by an automated voice
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  generated by Everlet. New York, the AP. New York Rangers Goldender Igor
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  Shesterkin is out for the season after injuring his right knee Friday
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  night in a game at Washington, the team announced Saturday. Shesterkin did
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  not put any weight on his right leg, as he was helped
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  off the ice by teammates after an awkward fall into his own
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  net against the capitals. Shesterkin came well out of his crease to
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  challenge a shooter midway through the second period, and fell as he
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  scrambled back to the net. The thirty year old Russian jammed his
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  right skate into the right post as he slid back into the
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  crease and collapsed into the net in pain. It's awful, you know.
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  He's a pillar of this team. It stinks, Rangers Captain J. T.
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  Miller said following the three one loss to the Capitals. Coach Mike
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  Sullivan said after his team's four game winning streak was snapped, He's
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  an elite goaltender and you never want to see anyone get hurt.
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  Obviously, he's an important player for us. The 2022 Vizina Trophy winner
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  missed a month last season, with a lower body injury, contributing to
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  the Rangers finishing last in the Eastern Conference. Shesterkin was off to
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  a strong start this season with a 3 1 record and 1.76
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  goals against average. Last week, he became the first Rangers goalie to
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  score a goal when he lofted the puck the length of the
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  ice into an empty net late in New York's home opener against
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  Tampa Bay. We're not going to let that take the wind out
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  of our sails, Miller said about Shusterkin's injury. We love the way
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  we're playing most of the time. Chesterkin stopped thirteen of fourteen shots
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  and left with the score tied one all. He was replaced by
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  twenty-four-year-old backup Dylan Garand, who gave up the go-ahead goal late in
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  the second but finished with 11 saves on twelve shots. It was
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  the fifth NHL appearance and second this season for Garand, recalled last
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  week from Hartford of the American Hockey League, after clearing waivers. Garand
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  made twenty two saves in a two zero shutout at Detroit last
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  Friday, with the Rangers playing their second game in two o nights.
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  Gurand went two zero one with a one point six two goals
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  against average and point nine four eight save percentage in three starts
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  for the Rangers last season. New York acquired veteran goaltender Junas Corpisolo
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  from the Boston Bruins last summer to be Shesterkin's backup, but the
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  thirty-two year old Finn was placed on injured reserve last week and
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  was week to week with a lower body injury. See the AP's
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  full NHL coverage here.