The Rangers are back at it tonight against St. Louis in another game against a playoff opponent. The Blues were awful to start the year, but have righted the ship and been on an absolute tear. They are a virtual lock for the playoffs now after being near the bottom as late as November.
The Rangers are playing some terrible hockey lately, save for Alex Georgiev saving them in Toronto. That’s fine. The more distance between the Rangers and the tank professionals in Buffalo, the better. Buffalo has just three points since the trade deadline. The Rangers have five points. Yet the Rangers are still within striking distance of Detroit and the Devils, who play each other tonight.
Blues Lines
Brayden Schenn-Ryan O’Reilly-Vlad Tarasenko
Jaden Schwartz-Oskar Sundqvist-David Perron
Patrick Marroon-Tyler Bozak-Robert Thomas
Zach Sanford-Ivan Barbashev-Alex Steen
Vince Dunn-Alex Pietrangelo
Jay Bouwmeester-Colton Parayko
Carl Gunnarsson-Robert Bortuzzo
PP1: Schenn-ROR-Tarasenko-Schwartz-Dunn
PP2: Steen-Bozak-Marroon-Pietrangelo-Parayko
Jordan Binnington gets the start.
Rangers Lines (doing the best I can here)
Chris Kreider–Mika Zibanejad–Pavel Buchnevich
Brendan Lemieux–Filip Chytil–Vlad Namestnikov
Jimmy Vesey–Lias Andersson–Ryan Strome
Boo Nieves–Brett Howden–Vinni Lettieri
Brady Skjei–Kevin Shattenkirk
Brendan Smith–Tony DeAngelo
Marc Staal–Neal Pionk
I give up on the powerplay units.
Alex Georgiev gets the start.
Scratches/Injuries: Libor Hajek (shoulder), Jesper Fast (lower body), John Gilmour (healthy), Fredrik Claesson (healthy)
Crazy Prediction: Twitter bans the Hank truthers.
Game time is 7pm.
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