NEW YORK (AP) — Artémi Panarin And Alexis Lafrenière brand, Igor Shesterkin stopped 40 shots and New York Rangers beat the Ottawa Senators 2-1 Friday night.

Panarin scored his team-best seventh goal 3:03 into the game, beating the Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark with a low shot. Alexis Lafrenière made it 2-0 on the power play at 2:56 of the third with his fifth goal.

Shesterkin kept the Senators at bay until Adam Gaudette scored with 7:32 left in the third. Gaudette made a cross pass from Brady Tkachuk for his fifth goal of the season.

Shesterkin improved to 5-2-1 as the Rangers bounced back from Tuesday’s 5-3 loss at Washington, which was just New York’s second regulation loss this season.

Ullmark made 16 saves for the Senators.

Takeaways

Rangers: The Rangers improved to 3-1-1 at home. They are 4-1-0 on the road.

Senators: Ottawa fell to 1-4-0 on the road. The Senators are 4-1-0 at home.

Key moment

Shesterkin refused to score a high goal Claude Giroux with a spectacular glove save from point-blank range with 2:48 left in the second period. He also stopped Josh Norris twice during a power play in the third period and made a sliding skate save on the defender Nick Jensen with just over four minutes left in the third.

Key statistics

Panarin has points in nine of 10 games and leads the Rangers with 16 points. The 33-year-old Russian forward led the Rangers with 120 points – including a career-high 49 goals – last season.

Following

The Senators host Seattle on Saturday, and the Rangers host the New York Islanders on Sunday.

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