The New York Rangers exercised their right of refusal Tuesday on an arbitrator's award to forward Nikolai Zherdev.

Todd White scored the game-winner Thursday in a shootout, boosting the Atlanta Thrashers to a 5-4 win over the New York Rangers. White was the 11th of 12 shooters in the shootout.

Scott Gomez scored the winning goal Tuesday and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 18 shots in the New York Rangers' 2-1 win over Minnesota. Nikolai Zherdev had a goal and an assist for the Rangers, who have won eight of their last 11 games.

Chris Drury scored the game-winner in the third round of an overtime shootout Tuesday to give the New York Rangers a 4-3 win over Montreal. Montreal's Andrei Markov began the round with a goal to tie the shootout at 2-2 but Drury then beat Carey Price with a shot from the slot to win the game for New York.

Nikolai Zherdev scored with 6:22 left to play and the New York Rangers held on Sunday for their third straight win, edging the Boston Bruins 4-3. The Rangers had led 3-1 after second-period scores by Nik Antropov, Scott Gomez and Ryan Callahan but Boston fought back to tie it in the third on goals by Zdeno Chara and Michael Ryder. The teams then battled for 10 scoreless minutes before Zherdev knocked in the game-winner from the right wing, assisted by Marc Staal. Boston's other goal, by Chuck Kobasew, came in the second period. New York goalie Henrik Lundqvist stopped 36 shots.