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The Rangers and Hawks finish up their two games this year, as the back end of the home and home continues tonight. The Rangers beat Chicago on the backs of Artemiy Panarin and Alex Georgiev, and will look to sweep the season series with another win tonight. It will likely be the same lineups for both teams.

The Rangers, this time around, won’t be on the back end of a back to back, so hopefully their performance will be a little better and a little more consistent. Chicago is finding some good play lately, despite their rough position in the standings. They do have some good skill, so playing another solid game defensively is key.

While this isn’t a “must win” by any sense, the Rangers do have to travel home tonight for a 7pm tomorrow against Colorado. The cards are stacked against them for that, so two points here would be nice.

Hawks Lines

Brandon Hagel-Jonathan Toews-Patrick Kane
Alex Debrincat-Kirby Dach-Dylan Strome
Dominik Kubalik-Henrik Borgstrom-Jujhar Khaira
Mike Hardman-Josiah Slavin-Ryan Carpenter

Erik Gustaffson-Seth Jones
Jake McCabe-Connor Murphy
Wyatt Kalynuk-Caleb Jones

Marc-Andre Fleury gets the start.

Rangers Lines 

Chris Kreider-Mika Zibanejad-Kaapo Kakko
Artemiy Panarin-Ryan StromeDryden Hunt
Alexis Lafreniere-Filip Chytil-Julien Gauthier
Barclay Goodrow–Kevin RooneyRyan Reaves

Ryan LindgrenAdam Fox
K’Andre Miller-Jacob Trouba
Patrik Nemeth-Nils Lundkvist

PP1: Strome-Zibanejad-Panarin-Kreider-Fox
PP2: Lafreniere-Chytil-Blais-Kakko-Trouba

Alex Georgiev gets the start.

Scratches/InjuriesSammy Blais (knee – done for season), Igor Shesterkin (lower body – IR), Jarred  Tinordi (healthy), Libor Hajek (healthy), Morgan Barron (recalled, for some reason)

Crazy Prediction: Morgan  Barron actually plays.

Game time is 8:30pm.

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