That held up until Filip Chytil banked a pass off Lafrenière’s skate and in on a Rangers power play at 2:56 of the third. Adam Gaudette finally beat Shesterkin with 7:32 to play, but that was all for the Senators despite 33 shots over the last 40 minutes of the game.

Igor Shesterkin’s teammates owe him a dinner or two on the New York Rangers next road trip. The Rangers were outshot, outchanced and just about out-everythinged by the Ottawa Senators at Madison Square Garden pm Friday night.

Igor Shesterkin made 40 saves and Alexis Lafreniere collected a goal and an assist to lift the host New York Rangers to a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Friday. Artemi Panarin responded to seeing his season-opening eight-game point streak come to a halt in New York’s 5-3 loss to the Washington Capitals on Tuesday by scoring his team-leading seventh goal of the season.

Shesterkin played out of his mind, leading the Rangers to a 2-1 victory over the Senators. As former Ranger goalie Henrik Lundqvist said in the post game show on MSG, "They're not winning this game with good goaltending.

The Rangers got goals from Will Cuylle 58 seconds after Ovechkin’s first, Chris Kreider on the power play and Filip Chytil on a deflection but could not give Shesterkin enough support.