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 Kreider–Mika Zibanejad-Pavel Buchnevich
Artemi Panarin–Filip Chytil–Jesper Fast
Phil Di Giuseppe-Ryan Strome–Kaapo Kakko
Brett Howden–Greg 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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