GLENDALE, Ariz. _ Henrik Lundqvist was superb while making 37 saves through overtime, and then stopped all three shootout attempts, to lead the Rangers to a 2-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes.
Mika Zibanejad scored the only goal of the shootout when he beat Antti Raanta.
In the shootout, Lundqvist stopped Anthony Duclair's backhander with his left pad, Clayton Keller with his right pad, and then Derek Stepan's slap shot.
The Rangers, who have won nine straight against Arizona, are 22-14-5 for 49 points at the halfway mark of the season. They are 7-7-2 away from Madison Square Garden and visit Las Vegas for the first time Sunday in the final game before their bye week.
The teams exchanged chances early in the third period. With Raanta down, Coyotes defenseman Kevin Connauton got his stick down to deflect a loose puck, then swiped with his glove and banged the puck off the crossbar with about 4:30 gone. Lundqvist robbed Alex Goligoski from point blank when the Rangers, plagued by giveaways all evening, allowed another great look against Lundqvist. Seconds later, he stretched out on the ice to deny a shot by Brad Richardson, protecting an open net with his right arm.
Jimmy Vesey, who scored in the second period to tie the game, shot wide on a breakaway in overtime. Then Brady Skjei went off for slashing with 1:29 left in OT and Lundqvist came up big a few times to send the game into a shootout.
The Coyotes were prowling right after the puck dropped at Gila River Arena. On the first rush, Josh Archibald just whistled the puck wide left of Lundqvist, and minutes later, Lundqvist slid to his right to deny Tobias Rieder in front with his pad off a pass from Derek Stepan on the right wall.
Kevin Hayes had a break-in on Antti Raanta, but with Jakob Chychrun harassing him from behind with his stick, lost control of the puck on his backhand and whiffed on a chance seconds later on that shift.
But a two-man Coyotes forecheck, combined with sloppy play in the defensive zone by the Blueshirts began and continued through the period. Lundqvist denied Christian Dvorak in front, then Jordan Martinook threaded a pass through Brady Skjei to Dvorak, but it went through his legs.
The Rangers tried stretch passes to no avail, while the Coyotes came in north-south waves. Raanta was in perfect position to absorb J.T. Miller's wrister from the left circle with 11:37 left, and the Coyotes came close when Lundqvist blocked Luke Schenn's wrister from right point through a screen then dove on it for a stoppage. The Coyotes could've had at least one goal by that point, and soon connected.
After more pressure, Kevin Shattenkirk was penalized for dislodging the net with his right hand after being pushed from behind at 10:43, and just seven seconds later, former Ranger Anthony Duclair, from the left side, scored on a rebound of Stepan's shot for a 1-0 lead. Grabner's wrister glanced off Raanta's right shoulder for only the sixth shot of the period.
In the last minute of the period, Marc Staal delivered a big hit to Nick Cousins in the corner and that seemed to jolt the Rangers awake, likely along with some raised voices in the Rangers' locker room.
The Rangers were better in the first few minutes of the second. Jesper Fast slipped a pass to Hayes for a deflection in front that Raanta stopped, along with a point shot. He held onto Holden's slapper, too. Then Vesey stole the puck on right wall, stickhandled in and beat Raanta high short side, to tie the game at 1 at 5:11 of the second period. It was his ninth goal of the season and third in the last seven games.
Without a stick, Lundqvist danced left and right to foil more Coyotes chances with about nine minutes left and the shots climbed to 22-11 in favor of the Coyotes. Coach Alain Vigneault began shuffling, trying to create offense lines, moving Pavel Buchnevich down and Fast to the first trio.
Raanta stopped a wide open Staal off a cross-ice pass with 3:30 left and got his right arm on Nieves' shot with 1:40 left. The Blueshirts had their first power play with 57 seconds left when Rieder was sent off for tripping.
