The Rangers and Islanders are back at it tonight for the second time this week. The Rangers have been off since their 6-2 drubbing of the Isles on Monday, while the Isles had the lowly Red Wings the next day. This is their third in four nights, so they may be a little fatigued as the game wears on. Something to keep an eye on.
Also something to keep an eye on is how chippy last game got. Both teams remember, and this should be a little more old timey hockey tonight. I’d expect some fights early on too. There’s some bad blood brewing between these two clubs again.
Isles Lines
Anthony Beauvillier-Mat Barzal-Josh Bailey
Anders Lee-Brock Nelson-Jordan Eberle
Michael Dal Colle-Derick Brassard-Tom Kuhnackl
Ross Johnston-Leo Komarov–Matt Martin
Nick Leddy-Ryan Pulock
Devon Toews-Scott Mayfield
Noah Dobson-Johnny Boychuk
PP1: Lee-Barzal-Bailey-Toews-Beauvillier
PP2: Brassard-Nelson-Eberle-Dobson-Pulock
Semyon Varlamov gets the start.
Rangers Lines (best guess)
Chris Kreider–Mika Zibanejad–Pavel Buchnevich
Artemi Panarin–Ryan Strome–Jesper Fast
Brett Howden–Filip Chytil–Kaapo Kakko
Brendan Smith–Greg McKegg–Micheal Haley
Brady Skjei–Jacob Trouba
Marc Staal–Tony DeAngelo
Ryan Lindgren–Adam Fox
PP1: Panarin-Zibanejad-Strome-Kreider-DeAngelo
PP2: Kakko-Buchnevich-Lemieux/Chytil-Trouba-Fox
PK Forwards: Fast, Kreider, Strome, Howden, Lemieux, McKegg
PK Defense: Skjei, Trouba, Staal, Smith, Lindgren
Alex Georgiev gets the start.
Scratches: Phil Di Giuseppe (healthy), Igor Shesterkin (healthy), Libor Hajek (knee)
Crazy Prediction: No one complains about the 3 goalie rotation in the comments.
Game time is 7pm.
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