The Rangers dropped a shootout to the Canucks in their previous game at the Garden.
Rick Nash and Cam Talbot made sure that didn't happen again on Sunday night as the Blueshirts topped the Blue Jackets 4-3.
With a three-goal lead early in the second period, the Rangers appeared ready to cruise to a second straight victory.
But some careless play in front of Talbot — and some sloppiness from the goalie himself — meant the Rangers would have to hang on against the Blue Jackets.
Nash scored the winning goal in the shootout and Talbot stopped Cam Atkinson to clinch it.
Martin St. Louis drew a penalty that got the Rangers on the power play just nine seconds into a wild OT.
Nash was robbed by Curtis McElhinney, the first of many chances for the Rangers on the power play in the extra session. Derek Stepan was stopped twice and Mats Zuccarello had a shot.
David Savard scored at 15:41 of the third to tie the game at 3-3 on a shot that Talbot should have stopped. Talbot might have had more of a margin for error if the Rangers managed more than one shot on goal in the final period, as Chris Kreider's attempt at 3:33 was their lone chance.
The game didn't appear headed for drama when St. Louis scored his second of the night just 1:24 into the second to give the Rangers a 3-0 lead.
Kevin Hayes had opened the scoring at 5:57 in the first period after the Rangers refused to let Columbus clear the puck. Carl Hagelin fed Hayes, who wristed it past McElhinney for his 11th of the season.
St. Louis made it 2-0 at 8:06, set up by a pass from Derek Stepan from behind the net for his 17th.
The struggling St. Louis added another goal for what seemed to be a comfortable 3-0 lead early in the second, taking advantage of a nifty pass from Ryan McDonagh.
But as the Rangers are learning during life without the injured Henrik Lundqvist, there are few easy victories.
Columbus got back into the game in the second period, as Marko Dano trimmed the lead to 3-1 less than a minute later on a wrister at 2:17.
Mats Zuccarello missed on a good chance midway through the second that could have put the Rangers back up by three goals, but he was stuffed.
And after the Rangers failed to capitalize on a pair of power plays, Columbus cut the deficit to 3-2 when former Blueshirt Artem Anisimov jammed a goal by Talbot's left leg at 18:11.
Talbot, who spoke before the game about the benefits of getting his first game off on Friday since taking over for the injured Lundqvist, managed to survive the first period unscathed despite some close calls.
Anisimov had a good chance just 2:15 into the game, but Talbot was up to the task.
Later in the period, though, Talbot was nearly hurt by his own carelessness again, as some shoddy stickwork near the net almost led to a Columbus goal, but Talbot recovered in time to make the save against Matt Calvert and keep it 2-0.
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