Alexandar Georgiev made a season-high 44 saves for his seventh career shutout, Chris Krieder broke a scoreless tie late in the second period and the Rangers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 2-0 on Sunday night. NYR NoQuitinNY
The loss sent the Hurricanes to their first four-game losing streak of the season . It also marked the end to a 14-game home-ice points streak, one shy of a franchise record.
Kreider notched his team-high 41st goal at 16:39 of the second period on a redirection from Jacob Trouba's delivery. He has scored in three of the last four games and has seven goals in 10 games in March. This result gave them their first three-game road winning streak since a stretch that ended in mid-December.Carolina defenseman Tony DeAngelo was back in the lineup after an 11-game absence because of an upper-body injury. He's in his first season with the Hurricanes after arriving from the Rangers. He had three points in a victory against his former team in January.Carolina went with a lineup of seven defensemen, in part because of a shortage of forwards.