Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin has never quite encountered a stretch like this in his NHL career.
He has allowed three or more goals in the last six games. The last three starts, including, have featured four goals sneaking past the Rangers’ 27-year-old goalie. His save percentage has dipped to .912, which would mark the lowest of his career if it holds when the season ends. He led the league in goals saved above expected last season, according to MoneyPuck.com, and this season, Shesterkin sits in seventh at 14.0.
But troubling signs have emerged — and kept emerging — for the 2021-22 Vezina Trophy winner, who declined to speak with reporters following the Rangers’ latest loss.Robert Sabo for NY PostThe trend dates to Jan. 25, a few days before the Blueshirts’ All-Star break began, when Shesterkin allowed three goals in an overtime loss to the Maple Leafs.
These are issues that Shesterkin — in his fourth year with the Rangers after he signed his entry-level contract in 2019 — never quite dealt with prior to reaching the NHL, when he was a budding star in the KHL or a brief member of AHL Hartford. In the 2019-20 AHL season, he allowed three or more goals in three consecutive games once. That was it, with the five other instances never stringing together.This season, though, he had a stretch of five consecutive games — from Nov. 22 through Dec.
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