Panarin's double helped the Rangers to their first home win of the season.

New York Rangers Russian forward Artemi Panarin became a key figure in his club's victory over Nashville in the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season match. The match took place on November 11 and ended with a score of 6:3.

Panarin scored two goals, including the winning goal in the 28th and 54th minutes of the match. Besides him, Mika Zibanejad (11), Vladislav Gavrikov (19), Alexi Lafreniere (28) and Will Kailly (40) scored for the Rangers. Matthew Wood scored a hat-trick for the opponents (17, 53, 60).

Gavrikov also scored an assist in the first goal, and goalkeeper Igor Shesterkin blocked 27 of 30 shots.

As a result, the Rangers are in sixth place in the Metropolitan Division standings, with 18 points in 17 games. Nashville remains in seventh position in the Central Division with 14 points.

"It feels like a certain load has been lifted from the Locomotive"

Dynamo Moscow hockey player Artyom Sergeev talks about how the current Gagarin Cup winner has changed, the results of his team and the influence of goalkeepers on the game of the blue and white

Earlier in the day, it was reported that the Russian goalkeeper of Florida, Sergei Bobrovsky, rose to ninth place in NHL history in terms of the number of wins in regular championships, scoring the 437th victory in the match against Vegas. As a result, the hockey player shares the ninth position in the historical ranking with the six-time Stanley Cup winner. The record for wins belongs to Martin Brodeur (691), who played for New Jersey for most of his career.

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