Boston, though, answered immediately on a goal by David Pastrnak just 21 seconds later. Patrice Bergeron scored Boston's second goal 6:44 into the third period before Rick Nash iced the game with an empty-net goal with 7.7 seconds left.
Collectively, the Rangers turned in one of their best 60-minute efforts of the year at both ends of the ice. Defensively, New York gave the Bruins little to work with and killed off all four penalties they took, and are now perfect in their last 17 times they've been shorthanded.
"There were a lot of things I liked about this game," said coach Alain Vigneault, who earned his 200th win with the Rangers. "I liked our start. I liked the fact that the goals we scored, we scored by going to the tough areas. Buchy went to the tough areas, Jimmy's both goals were right from in tight. PK came up big for us tonight, and this was probably the best Hank has looked as far as in control. There were a lot of good things about tonight."