Artemy Panarin became one of the main characters of the last game day in the NHL.

The New York Rangers striker scored four points against the Chicago Blackhawks to help his club win their seventh straight win.

The game became the most productive for the Russian this season.

Also, the forward broke the 500-point mark in his career.

Most recently, Panarin has already met with his first team in the NHL.

Chicago had visited Madison Square Garden three days earlier, and the Russian showed no sympathy for his former teammates.

He took part in all three goals of the Rangers - he scored one goal himself and distributed two more to his partners.

The winning goal then brought Panarin the 499th point in the NHL regular championships.

After that, the Rangers came to Chicago themselves.

Celebrating a productive anniversary did not take Panarin much time.

At the end of the first minute, he entered a foreign zone with the puck, found free Jacob Truba on the right, and he opened the scoring with a powerful throw.

457 games were enough for Panarin to score 500 points - only Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby, Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeny Malkin could cope with this task faster.

“Chicago” was able to quickly recoup and even come out ahead by the eighth minute, but the owners of the ice could never upset Alexander Georgiev, who took the place of Igor Shesterkin, while he was recovering from an injury. At the beginning of the second period, the Blackhawks were outnumbered for the first time, and this gave Panarin the opportunity to go to six hundred points. While he was on duty in the left throw-in circle, a puck bounced to him from a patch, and the Russian immediately sent it into the goal. This goal allowed him to catch up with Valery Kamensky and share the 20th place in the list of the best Russian NHL scorers.

The next episode in the match was no longer so joyful.

In the 27th minute, forward of "Chicago" Jujhar Khaira took the puck from a partner and did not notice how the pipe stood in front of him.

The Canadian collapsed onto the ice and could no longer move himself.

He was urgently taken to the hospital, where he nevertheless came to his senses and began to talk.

Truba escaped punishment, although soon the Rangers were still in the minority due to the removal of Panarin.

For some time, the players were clearly not up to hockey, but in the third period, the Rangers continued to tear apart the hosts' defense.

Another removal allowed the guests to come forward, and again it was not without the help of Panarin - he signed up as an assistant to Chris Krider.

This goal was followed by another goal by Kevin Rooney.

“Chicago” was forced to remove the goalkeeper three and a half minutes before the siren, but this did not bring any benefit to the team.

After 20 seconds, Panarin was able to shoot accurately from the middle of the site and scored his 15th goal into an empty net.

At the same time, he scored 30 points in a season and briefly became the fifth scorer in the regular season, but was soon pushed aside by Kirill Kaprizov, who continued his six-game streak for the Minnesota Wild.

The Rangers were already leading with a score of 5: 2, but did not stop there.

Barkley Goodrow put an end to the match.

With a seventh straight win, the New Yorkers climb to fourth place in the Eastern Conference, just a point behind the leading Washington Capitals, Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs.

For Panarin's team, which has lost only one match out of the last 12, the standings are extremely important, since last season even the high performance of the Russian did not help it to break into the playoffs.

The efforts of the striker, recognized as the second star of the day, was noted by Rangers head coach Gerard Galland.

He noted that it was Panarin who allowed them to get out of the hole, into which the team fell at the beginning of the regular season.

“We had a difficult start to the season, but then Panarin felt his game and since then has been simply incredible.

In every meeting, he creates poignancy and scores points.

In addition, he is a wonderful person with whom it is always pleasant to be around.

When you see the smile on his face, you understand that today he will enjoy hockey and provide the result, "Sport-Express quotes Gallan.