It’s been a bit of a rough stretch for the Rangers, blowing a pair of two goal leads against the Red Wings and Isles in their last two games, both losses. Still, the Rangers are in a good position in the Metro for now, and have 7 games against beatable teams. It’s not must win territory, but it’s really should win territory. Anything less than 10 of 14 points in this stretch isn’t good enough.
The Red Wings have been playing well, arguably above their talent level right now. They are run by Steve Yzerman though, and he knows more than all of us. Perhaps we misjudged them to start the season. Or perhaps they are overachieving early and will come back down to Earth soon enough. Either way, this is a game where the Rangers probably need two points to keep fans from panicking.
Red Wings Lines
Pius Suter-Dylan Larkin-Lucas Raymond
Dominic Kubalik-Andrew Copp-David Perron
Adam Erne-Michael Rasmussen-Oskar Sundqvist
Elmer Soderblom-Joe Veleno-Autin Czarnik
Ben Chiarot-Moritz Seider
Olli Maata-Filip Hronek
Robert Hagg-Gustav Lindstrom
Alex Nedeljkovic gets the start.
Rangers Lines
Chris Kreider-Mika Zibanejad-Jimmy Vesey
Aretmiy Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Vitali Kravtsov
Alexis Lafreniere-Filip Chytil-Kaapo Kakko
Sammy Blais-Ryan Carpenter-Barclay Goodrow
Ryan Lindgren-Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller-Jacob Trouba
Zac Jones-Braden Schneider
Igor Shesterkin gets the start.
Injuries: Julien Gauthier (upper body)
Crazy Prediction: A dominant performance and 4+ goals.
Game time is 7pm.
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