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Rangers beat Ducks 5-2, stay perfect at the Garden

Oliver Bjorkstrand scored twice and the Rangers matched their 1983-84 home start at six wins, two short of the franchise record; the Ducks arrived at 2:30 a.m.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's eleven-forty Eastern, this is Finally, Some Good News, and tonight it's the New York Rangers, who beat the Ducks five to two at Madison Square Garden.

  2. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSean Durzi scored seventy-eight seconds in, Oliver Bjorkstrand added two, and the Rangers have scored first in all six home games.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd they haven't trailed for even one second at the Garden this season. I've had a facial that went worse than last year. I'm fine.

  4. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistLast year they won fourteen of forty-one. I took that one personally. I took all twenty-seven personally.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDon't, I'll lose it.

  6. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe Ducks spent fifteen hours getting to New York, and the Rangers were nice enough to wait. Hotel at two-thirty a.m.

  7. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistBjorkstrand says they just love playing here, and tonight, so do I.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSix games, zero seconds behind, and I've cried through every one of them. We're back tomorrow, same time, with more good news.

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