After last night’s strong win against a bad Detroit Red Wings team, the Rangers are in Raleigh to take on the playoff bound Carolina Hurricanes. The Canes have always been a well run team from a puck possession standpoint, and now have finally added that high end skill to complement that possession. The end result is a good team.
On paper this should be a mismatch. Then again the games against Tampa and Nashville should have been mismatches as well. As they say, that’s why you play the game. Although I can see this getting ugly quickly in the second of a back-to-back against a fast team like the Canes.
Canes Lines
Andrei Svechnikov-Sebastian Aho-Warren Foegele
Nino Niederreiter-Jordan Staal-Teuvo Teravainen
Ryan Dzingel-Lucas Wallmark-Martin Necas
Bock McGinn-Brian Gibbons-Haydn Fleury
Jaccob Slavin-Dougie Hamilton
Jake Gardiner-Brett Pesce
Joel Edmundson-Trevor van Riemsdyk
PP1: Niederreiter-Staal-Necas-Gardiner-Aho
PP2: Dzingel-Wallmark-Svechnikov-Hamilton-Teravainen
Petr Mrazek gets the start.
Rangers Lines
Artemi Panarin–Ryan Strome–Jesper Fast
Chris Kreider–Filip Chytil-Pavel Buchnevich
Brendan Lemieux–Brett Howden–Kaapo Kakko
Brendan Smith–Greg McKegg–Micheal Haley
Libor Hajek–Jacob Trouba
Brady Skjei–Tony DeAngelo
Marc Staal–Adam Fox
PP1: Panarin-Chytil-Buchnevich-Kreider-DeAngelo
PP2: Kakko-Strome-Lemieux-Trouba-Fox
PK Forwards: Anderson, Fast, Kreider, Strome, Howden, Lemieux
PK Defense: Skjei, Trouba, Staal Smith
Alex Georgiev gets the start.
Scratches: Mika Zibanejad (upper body), Lias Andersson (healthy), Ryan Lindgren (healthy)
Crazy Prediction: Gordie Howe hat trick for Lemieux.
Game time is 7:00pm.
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