from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

There was some dazzle and a dose of looking-good hockey from Artemi Panarin and his teammates Thursday night, but if you think that the Rangers got up off the floor in their 5-2 Game 2 victory over the Penguins at the Garden on skill and finesse, that would be incorrect.

That’s because the Blueshirts evened this first round at one-all by prevailing in just the street-fight kind of game that becomes prevalent in the playoffs. No one dropped the gloves, that’s not what this was about. Not at all.

But it was very much about the Rangers competing in tight corners and in the contested areas of the ice. It was about puck support and retrieval. It was about taking the body and taking a hit to make a play while working along the walls and in the hockey trenches.

It was responding to the numerous times the Penguins got a piece of Igor Shesterkin, sensational once again with 38 saves — nine of them in the first 6:51 of the third period while protecting a 3-2 lead.

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