The Rangers start their next trip out west tonight against Colorado, a team that crushed them at MSG a week ago. That game was a bit of a schedule loss, but it was also right smack in the middle of this current five game run of pretty bad process. This isn’t even about quality of opponent either, the Rangers have just reverted back to some of their bad habits. Stretches like this do happen, so it’s about limiting the damage and getting back on track.

The Avs are still one of the better teams in the league, and are one of the favorites to come out of the west this year. What they did to the Rangers last week had little to do with Adam Huska, and more to do with overall team skill and a Rangers team that didn’t play that well. We like to say the Rangers need to perform against the good teams, and this is another opportunity.

Avs Lines

Gabriel Landeskog-Nathan MacKinnon-Mikko Rantanen
Valeri Nichushkin-Nazem Kadri-Andre Burakovsky
Nicholas Aube-Kubel-Alex Newhook-Logan O’Connor
Darren Helm-Tyson Jost-Jacob MacDonald

Devon Toews-Cale Makar
Jack Johnson-Sam Girard
Erik Johnson-Kuris MacDermid

Darcy Kuemper gets the start.

Rangers Lines 

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

Ryan Lindgren–Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller-Jacob Trouba
Patrik Nemeth–Libor Hajek

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

Alex Georgiev gets the start.

Scratches/Injuries: Sammy Blais (knee – done for season), Igor Shesterkin (lower body – IR), Nils Lundkvist (illness)

Crazy Prediction: Over 50% xG share for the Rangers.

Game time is 9pm.

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