Chris Kreider scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period and Igor Shesterkin made 21 saves as the visiting New York Rangers won their third straight game against the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Tuesday night.

Mika Zibanejad, Will Cuylle and Kaapo Kakko each had a goal and an assist and Adam Fox added two assists for New York, which improved to 7-1-0 along the way with a sixth win in eight games.

Quinn Hughes, Conor Garland and Kiefer Sherwood scored goals and Elias Pettersson had two assists for Vancouver, which finished just 2-4-0 in a six-game homestand. Arturs Silovs made 29 saves.

Going into the final period the match was tied 3-3. Zibanejad stole the puck near the Vancouver blue line and fed Reilly Smith, who passed it to Kreider in the low slot. He beat Silovs with a wrist shot to his blocking side for his ninth goal of the season.

Hughes gave Vancouver a 1-0 lead after just 34 seconds with his fourth goal of the season. Hughes, alone at the top of the left circle, skated into the slot and then beat Shesterkin with a backhand shot.

New York tied the score less than two minutes later: 1-1. Zibanejad directed K’Andre Miller’s shot from the left point inside the far right post.

Cuylle gave the Rangers a 2-1 lead at 14:38 with a breakaway goal. He fired a wrist shot into the top right corner for his sixth goal.

Vancouver tied the score less than three minutes later. Sherwood took a cross pass from Pettersson during an odd rush and fired a wrist shot into the near post. It was his fifth goal.

Kakko put New York back ahead, 3-2, midway through the second period with a wrist shot from the low slot. But the Canucks tied the game again at 13:02 on the wrister of Garland, who shot through traffic from the left circle. His fifth goal paved the way for Kreider’s game-winner.

–Field-level media