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The Rangers are at home today in a Super Bowl LI kickoff pregame, taking on the Calgary Flames. The Flames are pretty bad, with limited scoring depth and bad goaltending. Outside of their top three blue liners, they are weak there as well. All in all, the Rangers are better than Calgary, so this makes for a solid trap game.

I checked with officials ahead of time, and they assured me that the pucks will be properly inflated for the game. That’s good, we don’t want any distractions and sidebar conversations during the game. It would take away from the on-ice product. Am I right?

Flames Systems

Glen Gulutzan is the new guy in Calgary, and I honestly know nothing about him or the systems he runs. I googled searched a bit and came up empty as well. So, this section is a work in progress.

Flames Lines

Johnny Gaudreau-Sean Monahan-Troy Brouwer
Matt Tkachuk-Mikael Backlund-Michael Frolik
Kris Versteeg-Sam Bennett-Alex Chiasson
Lance Bouma-Matt Stajan-Michael Ferland

Mark Giordano-Dougie Hamilton
TJ Brodie-Dennis Wideman
Brett Kulak-Deryk Engelland

PP1: Chiasson-Bennett-Monahan-Gaudreau-Giordano
PP2: Ferlund-Backlund-Brouwer-Brodie-Hamilton

Brian Elliott gets the start.

Rangers Lines 

Chris Kreider-Mika Zibanejad-Mats Zuccarello
Jimmy VeseyDerek StepanRick Nash
Michael GrabnerJT MillerJesper Fast
Pavel BuchnevichOscar LindbergMatt Puempel

Ryan McDonaghDan Girardi
Marc StaalNick Holden
Brady SkjeiKevin Klein

PP1: Zibanejad-Buchnevich-Nash-Miller-McDonagh
PP2: Stepan-Miller-Kreider-Zuccarello-Holden

Henrik Lundqvist gets the start.

Injuries/Scratches: Kevin Hayes (lower body), Brandon Pirri (healthy), Adam Clendening(healthy)

Crazy Prediction: A shutout for Hank.

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