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Zibanejad two-goal scorer against Florida: "Maybe better if I fail with my feints"

1/2/2023, 6:06:39 AM

Mika Zibanejad gave the Rangers crowd a nice start to the new year when he scored twice to lead his team to a 5-3 victory against the Florida Panthers. - Of course, it feels good to start in that way. Especially when every point means so much, he tells Sportbladet.


The first goal looked somewhat lethal, when he "dropped" the puck behind Sergej Bobrovsky in the Panthers goal to make it 1-0.

- Yes, that first goal...I wish I could claim that I cheated the goalkeeper and I certainly did, but it wasn't intentional.

I dropped the puck.

Maybe it will be better if I fail with my feints in the future too, says Zibanejad to Sportbladet.

He then also sent in 2–0 from the right drawing circle.

The goals were his seventeenth and eighteenth of the season.

Rangers are in fourth place in the Metropolitan division.