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It’s the Rangers 15th game of the season, and they are already down about that many defensemen. Jacob Trouba is the latest to get hurt, and he’s out 4-6 weeks. That means we get a bottom four of Smith-Johnson and Hajek-Bitetto. Godspeed, Alex Georgiev.

Alain Vigneault’s Flyers give up a ton of chances, and Carter Hart is basically Vigneault’s next victim. He follows in the footsteps of Roberto Luongo and Henrik Lundqvist. But a game against AV isn’t the story.

The story is how frustrated and angry everyone appears to be. The Rangers are not very good, which was more or less expected this season. It’s the same roster as last year, just with Lafreniere and without career years from half the roster. But puck luck has been an issue, and the Rangers are too skilled to have this long of a scoring drought. Perhaps a date with the porous Flyers is just what the doctor ordered.

Flyers Lines

James van Riemsdyk-Sean Couturier-Joel Farabee
Michael Raffl-Kevin Hayes-Nicolas Aube-Kubel
Connor Bunnaman-Nolan Patrick-David Kase
Samuel Morin-Andy Andreoff-Maksim Sushko

Ivan Provorov-Phillippe Myers
Travis Sanheim-Shayne Gostisbehere
Robet Hagg-Erik Gustafsson

PP1: Patrick-Couturier-Farabee-JVR-Gustafsson
PP2: Raffl-Hayes-Kase-Provorov-Gostisbehere

Carter Hart gets the start.

Rangers Lines 

Chris Kreider-Mika Zibanejad-Pavel Buchnevich
Artemi Panarin–Ryan StromeKaapo Kakko
Alexis Lafreniere–Kevin Rooney-Colin Blackwell
Brendan Lemieux–Brett Howden-Phil Di Giuseppe

Ryan LindgrenAdam Fox
Brendan Smith-Jack Johnson
Libor Hajek–Anthony Bitetto

PP1: Strome-Zibanejad-Panarin-Kreider-Fox
PP2: Lafreniere-Kakko-Buchnevich-Lemieux-Miller

Alex Georgiev gets the start.

Scratches/InjuriesFilip Chytil (upper body), K’Andre Miller (upper body), Jacob Trouba (thumb), Julien Gauthier (healthy)

Crazy Prediction: Everyone relaxes and has a good time.

Game time is 7pm.

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