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New York Rangers advance to NHL Stanley Cup last-eight

Carl Hagelin New York Rangers
Image: Carl Hagelin was on the mark in New York Rangers' win

​New York Rangers advanced to the last eight of the NHL Stanley Cup play-offs with a 2-1 win over Pittsburgh Penguins.

Carl Hagelin's overtime goal and spectacular goaltending by Henrik Lundqvist helped steer the hosts to a victory which completed a 4-1 series win.

In the day's other games, Ottawa staved off elimination again by winning at Montreal, and Minnesota moved within one win of a series victory by defeating St Louis.

Rangers' Hagelin netted the OT winner when he skated out from behind the net and put a wrist shot on the short side behind Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury.

New York recorded all four wins in the series by the same 2-1 score, will play the winner of the Washington-New York Islanders series, which the Capitals lead 3-2.

Lundqvist made 37 saves, including a memorable stop on Brandon Sutter in an entertaining overtime session.

The Rangers' problematic power play opened the scoring. Dan Boyle's weak shot from the point fooled Fleury, who knocked it down directly to Derek Stepan in front of him.

Stepan tapped in just 3:23 in but Pittsburgh's Nick Spaling levelled in the second period.

Ottawa won 5-1 at Montreal to reduce the series deficit to 3-2, having trailed 3-0 on the night.

Senators goalie Craig Anderson made 45 saves while Bobby Ryan, Patrick Wiercioch, Erik Karlsson, Erik Condra and Mike Hoffman scored for Ottawa. The Senators are trying to become the fifth team in NHL history to win a series after trailing 3-0.

Tom Gilbert had the lone goal for Montreal, and Carey Price stopped 20 shots.

Minnesota also claimed an impressive road win, beating St Louis 4-1 to go up 3-2 in the series.

Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk, who gave up six goals in two periods in Game 4, put in a much-improved performance, with 36 saves, including twice robbing Alexander Steen from close range in the second period.

Minnesota scored four straight goals after Vladimir Tarasenko gave the Blues the early edge with his playoff-leading sixth goal.

Nino Niederreiter scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, and Marco Scandella, Mikko Koivo and Charlie Coyle also scored for the visitors, who host Game 6 on Sunday.

Central Division champions St Louis will be trying to avoid their third straight first-round elimination and bring the series back home for Game 7 on Wednesday.

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