CALGARY, Alberta — The answer to the boos was in the stat sheet. Rangers rookie defenseman Adam Fox collected three assists while he was jeered almost every time he touched the puck during Thursday’s 4-3 loss to the Flames.
Fox was drafted by Calgary in the third round (No. 66 overall) in 2016, but spurned the Flames after three years at Harvard to become a free agent. They traded his rights to the Hurricanes, who then traded his rights to the Rangers, who got him to sign an entry-level deal this summer.
So with the long memories of Canadian hockey fans being heard, the 21-year-old Fox put together the first three-point contest of his 40-game NHL career. With two power-play assists in the first period and another at even strength in the second, Fox became the first Rangers defenseman 21 or younger to record three assists in a game since Brian Leetch on March 2, 1990, against the Islanders. Fox also had two assists in the 7-5 loss in Edmonton on Tuesday, becomming the first Rangers rookie defenseman to post multiple assists in two consecutive games since Sergei Zubov in 1993.
Artemi Panarin had one of his worst games in a while, finishing with no points and a minus-3 rating. It broke his streak of three games with three or more points. He was just the ninth player in franchise history to accomplish that and the first since John Ogrodnick in 1990. Only two players in franchise history have had three-plus points in four games: Frank Boucher (1929) and Andy Bathgate (1961).
Earlier, Panarin was named the NHL’s third star of December, with 10 goals and 22 points in 14 games during the month. He is the first Ranger with consecutive months of 20-plus points since Jaromir Jagr in November and December 2005.
Lias Andersson recently returned to his native Sweden after the Rangers suspended the No. 7-overall pick from 2017 following his choice to leave AHL Hartford. This came in the wake of his trade request just before the Christmas break.
The Rangers are allowed to loan him to a Swedish team, but that would only happen if they thought it would increase his trade value, not to appease Andersson.
Henrik Lundqvist and Marc Staal became the sixth and seventh players in Rangers history to play at least one game in three different decades, joining Boucher, Walt Tkaczuk, Ron Greschner, Brian Leetch, and Mike Richter. … Chris Kreider played in career game No. 500. … Rangers president John Davidson, who played junior hockey in Calgary, was named a 2020 inductee into the Alberta Hockey Hall of Fame.
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