The Canadiens trailed 3-1 after two periods. But Cole Caufield scored his 14th goal 4:16 into the third and Nick Suzuki tied it at 14:07. Trocheck tipped the puck past Montreal goaltender Sam Montembeault at 19:56 to put New York ahead after Panarin and Montreal’s Mike Matheson scored earlier in the first.

Kaapo Kakko scored the tiebreaking goal during a four-minute power play with 23 seconds left as the New York Rangers ended their first five-game losing streak in over three years with a 4-3 victory over the visiting Montreal Canadiens on Saturday afternoon.

With Montreal’s Kirby Dach serving a four-minute, high-sticking penalty, Kaapo Kaako got his fourth goal of the season

The Rangers fixed their start. They couldn’t execute a perfect ending, but they got it close enough to give the dressing room, and perhaps management, an exhale-worthy win against Montreal. Their losing streak — which felt even more dire after word leaked that Chris Drury reached out to teams about making trades and mentioned Chris Kreider and Jacob Trouba by name — is over at five games.

There is still fight in New York. It’s been a whirlwind of a week for the Rangers, who had descended into a state of unrest amid a five-game losing streak that set off a siren throughout the organization.

The New York Rangers ended their five-game losing streak when Kaapo Kakko scored a power-play goal with 24 seconds remaining […]