The Rangers and the Pittsburgh Penguins were destined to play a one-goal game Friday night at Madison Square Garden.
Sure enough, the teams were tied, 1-1, and playing in overtime — for the second in the series — when Carl Hagelin rifled the puck on the short side past Marc-Andre Fleury at 10 minutes 52 seconds of the extra session to give the Rangers a dramatic 2-1 victory in Game 5 and vault them into the Eastern Conference semifinals against the winner of the series between the Islanders and the Washington Capitals.
“I can’t describe it,” Hagelin, 26, said of his first playoff overtime winner.