Steve Valiquette wasn’t thrilled with the perceived disrespect that Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin had gotten on a primary interval breakaway through the Blueshirts’ 5-1 loss to the Devils.
New Jersey star Jack Hughes tried to make use of a one-handed breakaway transfer on Shesterkin, which the Rangers starter turned away together with his left blocker, and Valiquette felt the transfer was an try to point out up the goalie.
“I don’t like that because Hughes set out to embarrass Shesterkin there by slowing down and going to one hand,” Valiquette stated.
The previous Ranger turned NHL analyst later known as the try “more Instagram hockey than intense hockey.”
Valiquette’s different difficulty seemed to be the dearth of response from the Rangers, who’ve now dropped six of their final seven video games following Monday’s loss.
Valiquette, who performed components of 5 seasons for the Rangers in addition to a 12 months on Lengthy Island for the Islanders, questioned the place the response was from the remainder of the Blueshirts squad.
“That should send a shockwave to everybody on the bench. I know in my day, Colton Orr would have been hanging over the bench banging his stick saying, ’I’m coming after you because you tried to embarrass us,’” the analyst defined. “And that’s blatant disrespect and I’m sort of surprised I didn’t see a response from the team that way.”
He later added: “I think the Rangers should be upset about that.”
Hughes was requested about Valiquette’s feedback after the sport and the Devils star responded with a deadpanned reply.
“I don’t even know what that means. Like what does that even mean?” Hughes responded.
The Devils managed to sneak 5 targets by Shesterkin, which included two targets within the second interval.
Hughes beat Shesterkin for his first aim of the evening with 7:22 left within the center body when he buried a rebound from in entrance of the web.
His second aim of the interval got here with somewhat greater than a minute left on the clock as he fired a wrist shot from the excessive slot that simply beat the Rangers netminder.
