NEW YORK – Sergei Bobrovsky put yet another stamp on an under-appreciated career that will one day see him enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame. At Madison Square Garden, the 36-year-old Florida Panthers netminder became just the 14th goalie in National Hockey League history to reach the 400 wins milestone, making 24 saves in his team’s 3-1 win over the New York Rangers, handing them their first regulation loss of the season. He’s one of only two active goaltenders with 400 or more wins — the Minnesota Wild’s Marc-Andre Fleury, who will retire after this year, is the other — and continues to add to a resume that saw a Stanley Cup title tacked on for good measure last year to go along with two Vezina Trophies, three All-Star selections and a gold medal at the worlds for his native Russia. Not bad for a guy who played on mostly underachieving Philadelphia Flyers and Columbus Blue Jackets teams until signing with the Panthers prior to the start of the 2019-20 season. “It’s incredible,” said Florida head coach Paul Maurice. “I don’t mean any disrespect, but his first nine years in the league, he was playing in front of necessarily elite teams, so he had to grind for those wins. Those numbers are hard-earned…to do something like that with so many great netminders this game has had, I’m happy for him that he gets that recognition while he’s at the peak of his game.” Bobrovsky became the fastest goalie in league history to reach the 400-win plateau as well, getting the job done in 707 games, which is 20 less than Henrik Lundqvist needed when he accomplished the feat with the Blueshirts. Typically humble and largely unwilling to speak on his own achievements, he was more pleased with helping to secure a win for his team than anything else. “At the moment, I don’t think too much about it,” he said. “It’s a big two points for us, we just beat a really good team, really balanced team; good goalie, good defense, good forwards, good power play.  It’s a big moment for us, an important moment to build the chemistry and the confidence in the locker room for the season.” It’s a fair point. A statement win for a team that made the biggest statement of them all last season isn’t a bad thing — knocking off the previously 5-0-1 Rangers in a rematch of last year’s Eastern Conference Final — and something they can build off of, even if the games likely won’t look like they did on Thursday night should the teams respective paths cross again this postseason. Anton Lundell, Carter Verhaeghe and Sam Bennett tallied the goals in a contest that felt far more wide open and end-to-end than the six games they played last postseason did, and understandably so with how the game seems to change at that time of year. “This was a low-scoring one tonight, and for the most part it was a low-scoring Conference Final,” said Panthers star forward Matthew Tkachuk. “They’ve got a lot of skill over there, so it’s up to us to defend first, and that’s how we get a lot of our offense created.”