The Rangers begin their long stretch of travel for games tonight in Dallas. For the players, they will get to see old friend Mats Zuccarello. For us fans, he broke his arm and is not playing tonight. The hockey gods are cruel sometimes.
The Blueshirts are dressing their youngest roster in years, and the future is looking bright. David Quinn has them competing in every game, and there aren’t many where the Rangers give up and accept defeat.
Interesting note: Alex Radulov won’t play tonight, as he was late to the Stars’ morning skate. They will play 11F/7D, like the Rangers.
Stars Lines
Roope Hintz-Tyler Seguin-TBD
Jamie Benn-Joel L’Esperance-Jason Spezza
Mattias Janmark-Radek Faksa-Blake Comeau
Valeri Nichushkin-Jason Dickenson-Brett Ritchie
Miro Heiskanen-John Klingberg
Esa Lindell-Roman Polak
Taylor Fedun-Ben Lovejoy
PP1: Seguin-Benn-Spezza-?-Lindell
PP2: Janmark-Hintz-Gleason-Heiskanen-Bayreuther
Ben Bishop gets the start.
Rangers Lines
Chris Kreider–Mika Zibanejad–Jimmy Vesey
Brendan Lemieux–Lias Andersson-Pavel Buchnevich
Vlad Namestnikov–Ryan Strome–Jesper Fast
Brendan Smith–Brett Howden–Filip Chytil
Brady Skjei–Kevin Shattenkirk
Marc Staal–Tony DeAngelo
Libor Hajek-Neal Pionk
PP1: Zibanejad-Kreider-Vesey-Buchnevich-DeAngelo
PP2: Strome-Lemieux-Namestnikov-Pionk-Shattenkirk
Alex Georgiev gets the start.
Scratches/Injuries: Fredrik Claesson (healthy), Boo Nieves (healthy), Connor Brickley (healthy)
Crazy Prediction: Gordie Howe hat trick for Lemieux.
Game time is 8:30pm.
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