Marian Gaborik landed in Columbus, providing the trade-happy Blue Jackets' playoff push a nudge.
New York's Brad Richards found Marian Gaborik with just over five minutes left in the third overtime.
"It was a tough game to play, " said Pavelec, who stopped Marian Gaborik on a penalty shot.
Washington squandered a 5-on-3 early in the period and Holtby stopped Marian Gaborik's breakaway bid midway through.
Defenseman Marc Staal tied it at 7:36 and then assisted on Marian Gaborik's tipped game-winner 5:21 later.
The Rangers frontloaded that first line Marian Gaborik, Brad Richards and Rick Nash and that's worked.
The Rangers started the season with a high-powered top line of Marian Gaborik, Brad Richards and new acquisition Rick Nash.
New York had a couple of close calls in the scoreless third period, including a chance in front by slumping forward Marian Gaborik.
Nicklas Grossmann crushed Marian Gaborik on a clean check into the side boards early in the first period that brought the crowd to life.
He lost his shutout bid when Marian Gaborik cut the Rangers' deficit to 2-1 with 3:48 left, but Markstrom settled for wins in back-to-back games.
Rangers coach John Tortorella put his three biggest offensive threats Rick Nash, Brad Richards, and Marian Gaborik on one line against the Hurricanes.
The Rangers have been looking for depth at forward to complement their top line of Rick Nash, Brad Richards and former Wild star Marian Gaborik.
So as Ryan Callahan and Marian Gaborik alternately looked stranded at one end, New York relied as it often does on Lundqvist's outstanding performance at the other.
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Lundqvist stopped Tyler Seguin and Patrice Bergeron in the shootout, and Rask stopped Marian Gaborik before Nash went right and then left to slide the puck into the net.
Just four minutes later, Rangers forward Marian Gaborik, the hero in a 2-1 overtime victory Thursday over the Islanders, tripped Senators defenseman Gryba while pursuing the puck in the Ottawa zone.
Brassard, a pickup from Columbus in the deal that sent Marian Gaborik to the Blue Jackets at the trade deadline, also had five assists in the first five games of the series.
Marian Gaborik had perhaps the Rangers' best scoring chance during Washington's lone power play of the period, but he was stuffed twice in front, and New York couldn't put in the rebound.
No, not the deal that brought Rick Nash to Broadway, but the key move just before the trade deadline that sent Marian Gaborik to Columbus for a package of players that included Derick Brassard.
Many league observers figured the Rangers' power play scoring woes were solved by adding proven sniper Rick Nash to a top unit that now also includes winger Marian Gaborik (below) and center Brad Richards.
Then, with the Rangers on the periphery of the conference's playoff picture in early April and Tortorella bemoaning the team's lack of depth, Sather sent forward Marian Gaborik to the Blue Jackets for three players.
Given Marian Gaborik's resurgence (he leads the NHL with 22 goals after scoring 22 all of last season) and Richards's presence, the Rangers perhaps can afford to have Dubinsky settle into a less offensive-minded role.
Thanks in part to Lundqvist's fine play, the Rangers were able to stabilize themselves in the second, getting goals from Artem Anisimov and Marian Gaborik to enter the third period with the score tied at 2.
The Rangers got a free chance to score when Marian Gaborik was awarded a penalty shot after Byfuglien hooked him at 11:17 of the first period, but his attempt to stuff the puck under Pavelec's pad was unsuccessful.
Seventeen seconds into the third period of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, he inadvertently passed the puck to Rangers forward Marian Gaborik, who banked a shot off the back of Brodeur's leg for a game-tying goal.
"Throughout this process our focus was to add a player who could provide a boost to our offense, improve our goal scoring and power play, and we identified Marian Gaborik as the player we wanted, " general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said.
The Rangers were given their third power play the only ones in the game just seconds into the extra session, and Marian Gaborik ended his long scoring drought to give them a 2-1 win at 42 seconds of overtime.
Clowe came to New York on Tuesday night in a trade with San Jose, and Brassard was part of the package New York received on Wednesday in the deal that sent star forward Marian Gaborik to Columbus right before the NHL trade deadline.
New York and Columbus pulled off another big deal at the trade deadline this season, with the Rangers acquiring forwards Derick Brassard and Derek Dorsett and defenseman John Moore, but those pieces were brought in for Marian Gaborik a 41-goal scorer last season.
But the Rangers never found their stride during the regular season, and to replenish the lineup depth that he had sacrificed to get Nash, general manager Glen Sather made another blockbuster trade with Columbus, this time getting three players for talented forward Marian Gaborik.
"Throughout this process our focus was to add a player who could provide a boost to our offense, improve our goal scoring and power play, and we identified Marian Gaborik as the player we wanted, " Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said in a statement.
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