The Rangers need to make a run, and it starts today in Dallas against the white-hot Jake Oettinger and the Stars. The Stars are surprisingly good to start the season, mostly on the back of Oettinger, but they have some good young talent to complement veterans like Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn. They aren’t as deep as the Rangers so there are matchups to exploit, especially on the blue line. But Dallas can score and will score.
Vitali Kravtsov is back, again, and hopefully he can stay healthy this time. The Blueshirts are still without Filip Chytil, which is a gut punch to their center scoring depth, but he’s trending in the right direction. The real concern is the top six and powerplay just simply aren’t finishing. When you don’t finish, things seem to get worse before they get better. It’s a shooting slump, but one that does need to end soon.
Stars Lines
Jason Robertson-Roope Hintz-Joe Pavelski
Mason Marchment-Tyler Seguin-Denis Gurianov
Jamie Benn-Wyatt Johnston-Ty Dellandrea
Radek Faksa-Luke Glendening-Joel Kiviranta
Ryan Suter-Nils Lundkvist
Esa Lindell-Colin Miller
Joel Hanley-Jani Hakanpaa
Jake Oettinger gets the start.
Rangers Lines
Chris Kreider-Mika Zibanejad-Kaapo Kakko
Artemiy Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Alexis Lafreniere
Jimmy Vesey-Barclay Goodrow-Vitali Kravtsov
Sammy Blais-Ryan Carpenter-Julien Gauthier
Ryan Lindgren-Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller-Jacob Trouba
Zac Jones-Braden Schneider
Igor Shesterkin gets the start.
Injuries: Filip Chytil (upper body)
Crazy Prediction: The top six actually score.
Game time is 2pm.
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