NEW YORK — It wasn’t a six-goal outburst, as they’d produced in the third period of their blowout win over Detroit on Thursday. But the three goals the Rangers scored over a 9-minute, 34-second span bridging the second and third periods Sunday against the Arizona Coyotes counted as a mini-explosion, and one sorely needed for a team that had had reason to question itself.
Barclay Goodrow and Adam Fox scored in the final five minutes of the second period, and Chris Kreider tacked on a power-play goal at 4:39 of the third to put the Rangers in the driver’s seat, and they returned home from their two-game road trip to Detroit and Nashville to beat the Coyotes, 4-1, Sunday at the Garden.
Igor Shesterkin made 31 saves to earn his eighth win of the season as the Rangers improved to 8-6-3 before leaving for a four-game West Coast trip to Seattle and California this week.
