“We want to finish first,'' Gallant added. 7 new CT restaurants to check out this May.
Norwalk High School Alumni Association adds five to Wall of Honor. Investigation into fire at Westport pet boarding facility continues. Fairfield’s Lou Lopez-Senechal transferring to UConn women’s basketball team. Westport bridge closed until November for rebuilding. New Canaan police: Stolen Land Rover was actually repossessed. Two cruise ships stopped in Connecticut this week. Both teams have five games remaining, including another meeting at Madison Square Garden next Tuesday. With the victory, the Rangers moved into a first-place tie with idle Carolina with 106 points atop the Metropolitan Division. It's been a real good year and a lot of fun,'' said Gallant, who replaced David Quinn as coach after last season and has expertly shepherded the Rangers' dramatic turnaround. Gallant won 51 games with the expansion Vegas Golden Knights in 2017-18, while Keenan had 52 wins for the 1993-94 eventual Stanley Cup-champion Rangers and 53 for the 1984-85 Philadelphia Flyers. Gallant and Mike Keenan are also the only coaches to win 50 games with two franchises in their first season. Gallant became just the second Rangers coach to reach the 50-win mark in his first season behind the bench. They also reached the plateau in 1991-92, 1993-12. The Rangers reached the 50-win mark for the first time since 2014-15, when they won a franchise-record 53 games. The Rangers haven’t allowed a goal since an empty-net score with six seconds left in the third period of a 4-2 home loss to Carolina last Tuesday. ”Our goaltender has been been really good, really strong. “He's been outstanding,'' Rangers coach Gerard Gallant said. He also improved to 21-3-2 this season when making 30 or more saves in a game. The 26-year-old Russian netminder is 36-11-4 this season and become the first Rangers goalie since Henrik Lundqvist in 2011-12 to with six or more shutouts in a season. 
He also denied Nikolaj Ehlers with just over five minutes left in the third to preserve the shutout. Shesterkin’s best save was a point-blank right-arm stop on Jets captain Blake Wheeler at 17:23 of the middle period. “I love playing and I love winning,'' Shesterkin said through an interpreter. It was the first time since the 1972-73 season that the Rangers recorded three straight shutouts. He also blanked Detroit 4-0 on Saturday after backup Alexandar Georgiev stopped Philadelphia 4-0 on April 13. The shutout was his second straight and sixth of the season. Shesterkin was stellar from the start, making six saves in the first, 12 in the second and 13 in the third.
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