The Rangers are in Ottawa tonight to wrap up the home-and-home with the Senators. The Senators allow the most even strength goals in the league and are #bad. The Rangers are a terrible possession team and should be #bad, but aren’t. The Henrik Lundqvist effect is real.
The Rangers are without Mats Zuccarello and Vlad Namestnikov (in addition to all the other injuries), and did not make a call up. So they will play with 11 forwards and 7 defensemen tonight. That should be fun. And hey, we can’t complain about anyone being scratched. Positivity!
Sens Lines
Tom Pyatt-Matt Duchene-Drake Batherson
Brady Tkachuk-Colin White-Mark Stone
Ryan Dzingel-Zack Smith-Bobby Ryan
Mikkel Boedker-Chris Tierney-Magnus Paajarvi
Thomas Chabot-Dylan Demelo
Maxime Lajoie-Christian Jaros
Ben Harpur-Cody Ceci
PP1: White-Tkachuk-Stone-Ryan-Chabot
PP2: Boedker-Duchene-Dzingel-Batherson-Lajoie
Craig Anderson gets the start.
Rangers Lines (No morning skate + 11 F/7D = shrug)
Filip Chytil–Mika Zibanejad–Chris Kreider
Jimmy Vesey–Kevin Hayes–Jesper Fast
Lias Andersson–Brett Howden–Ryan Strome
Tim Gettinger–Steven Fogarty
Brady Skjei-Tony DeAngelo
Marc Staal–Neal Pionk
Brendan Smith-Kevin Shattenkirk
Fredrik Claesson
PP1: Zibanejad-Namestnikov-Kreider-Chytil-Pionk
PP2: Hayes-Howden-Vesey-Strome-Shattenkirk
Henrik Lundqvist gets the start.
Scratches/Injuries: Adam McQuaid (lower body), Pavel Buchnevich (thumb), Cody McLeod (hand), Mats Zuccarello (groin), Vlad Namestnikov (concussion)
Crazy Prediction: All 7D register a point.
Game time is 7pm.
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