Mike Sullivan gushes over Igor Shesterkins latest…
BUFFALO — Goalie Igor Shesterkin has been spectacular through the Rangers’ first two video games of the season, combining for 65 saves on the 66 pictures he’s seen.
After years of enjoying against him as head coach of the Penguins in the Metropolitan Division, new Rangers head coach Mike Sullivan was requested about having Shesterkin on his facet of the ice now.
“It sure is nice,” Sullivan said with a smile after the Rangers took a 4-0 victory over the Sabres on Thursday night time at KeyBank Center. “I mean, he’s a world-class goalie. He’s one of the best. You get timely saves like he gives you, he makes it really hard on other teams sometimes. We certainly don’t take that for granted. He was terrific tonight, he was terrific the other night also.”
Shesterkin stayed in entrance of all 37 pictures the Sabres despatched his method Thursday, including 12 in the third period alone.
Even when the Sabres rattled off three energy performs in the center body, Shesterkin tracked all the pieces, including Tage Thompson’s harmful shot.
“It’s always nice having a goalie that you have confidence in,” said Carson Soucy, who scored his second objective as a Ranger in the third period for a 2-0 lead. “We just try to do our best of giving him clean looks at the pucks. He’s going to make those saves a lot of the time.”
Igor Shesterkin stops the shot of Jason Zucker (17) for one of his 37 saves in the Rangers’ 4-0 street win over the Sabres on Oct. 9, 2025. AP
Conor Sheary rapidly separated himself from the remainder of the perimeter gamers who got here into Rangers training camp three weeks in the past.
Despite having spent the earlier season in the AHL with comparable gamers he was competing with for a spot on the Blueshirts roster, Sheary’s veteran presence and relentless hustle simply stood out among the children who have been still in center faculty when he hoisted his first Stanley Cup in 2016.
As a end result, the Rangers rewarded Sheary with a one-year, two-way deal for the league minimal of $775,000.
“I was thrilled,” Sheary told The Post of his response to receiving a contract. “I’ve talked about coming in on a PTO [professional tryout contract] and how different that was for me. Coming into a new locker room and making an attempt to show your self to teammates and coaches and management. To ultimately end up with a deal and be on the Opening Night roster was fairly particular for me.
“My goal was to get back to the NHL and stick here and prove that I can still play. So hopefully throughout this year I can continue to do that.”
There was little doubt Sheary was going to make the Rangers roster out of training camp, particularly with spots on the third line nearly large open.
Not only is Sheary a Sullivan form of participant, after the 2 gained two Stanley Cups together in Pittsburgh, but the undersized wing was fueled by the prospect of proving people fallacious throughout the preseason.
Will Borgen skated in his three hundredth NHL contest Thursday.
Will Borgen features control of the puck during the Rangers’ street win over the Sabres. Timothy T. Ludwig-Imagn Images
The Rangers will observe in Pittsburgh on Friday before they face the Penguins on Saturday night time.
Sullivan will return to Pittsburgh for the first time since parting methods with the staff he led for the past 10 years.
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