DALLAS – The injuries are starting to pile up for the Rangers, but despite losing Vitali Kravtsov to what appeared to be a head injury, the Blueshirts got third-period goals by Zac Jones, Julien Gauthier and Vincent Trocheck to break open a tight game and snap their four-game winless streak with a 6-3 victory over the Dallas Stars in the front end of a back-to-back Saturday afternoon in the American Airlines Center.
Jones, a defenseman, broke a 3-3 tie with his first career NHL goal at 11:18 of the third period and Gauthier, called up during the week after forward Kravtsov missed a game with a different upper-body injury, followed that 19 seconds later with his first goal of the season to make it 5-3. Trocheck, who had scored a power-play goal earlier in the game, made it 6-3 when he scored on a delayed penalty at 13:25.
Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad scored the other Rangers goals, while goaltender Igor Shesterkin (4-0-2) made 30 saves.
