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If, in October, you told me that the Rangers would be making things interesting in February, I would’ve called you a naive optimist. Yet here we are, with the Rangers making a run. We don’t know if this run will impact their trade deadline plans, but we do know that these games actually mean something right now. If you were looking for progress in a rebuild, there’s your progress.

The Bruins may be a one line team, but they are the best team in the conference right now. That top line is lethal, and they are superb defensively. They rely on boring, low-event games and capitalizing on their chances. That doesn’t match up well with the Rangers, who still take a good amount of stick penalties and struggle against these low-event teams.

Bruins Lines

Brad Marchand-Patrice Bergeron-David Pastrnak
Jake Debrusk-David Krejci-Karson Kuhlman
Anders Bjork-Charlie Coyle-Danton Heinen
Joakim Nordstrom-Sean Kuraly-Chris Wagner

Zdeno Chara-Charlie McAvoy
Torey Krug-Brandon Carlo
Matt Grzelcyk-Jeremy Lauzon

PP1: Marchand-Bergeron-Debrusk-Pastrnak-Krug
PP2: Hanon-Krejci-Coyle-Grzelcyk-McAvoy

Jaroslav Halak gets the start.

Rangers Lines (best guess)

Chris KreiderMika Zibanejad-Pavel Buchnevich
Artemi PanarinFilip ChytilJesper Fast
Phil Di Giuseppe-Ryan StromeKaapo Kakko
Brett HowdenGreg McKegg-Brendan Lemieux

Brady Skjei–Jacob Trouba
Ryan Lindgren–Adam Fox
Marc Staal-Tony DeAngelo

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

Henrik Lundqvist gets the start.

Scratches: Igor Shesterkin (ankle), Micheal Haley (bilateral core), Brendan Smith (healthy)

Crazy Prediction: A Buchnevich hat trick.

Game time is 3:30pm.

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