The shorthanded Rangers, fresh off a PDO loss to the St. Louis Blues, are hoping to right the ship and continue to tread water in Washington. The Rangers haven’t played poorly over their last couple of losses, with opposing goalies standing on their heads and their own goalies in a slump of their own. This is just how a season plays out. Teams hit a few ruts, and the Rangers are doing so while playing their 15F on a nightly basis.
Unfortunately for the Rangers, they will be without Mika Zibanejad today and Kaapo Kakko isn’t ready to return. That means Jonny Brodzinski is the Rangers’ 2C today, not exactly the best situation. There’s enough talent to survive and beat the Caps, who are getting healthy and should be better than their record. Still, it’s one of those games where, due to injuries, it could go either way.
Mika is back. Hooray.
Capitals Lines
Alex Ovechkin-Dylan Strome-Tom Wilson
Max Pacioretty-Evgeny Kuznetsov-TJ Oshie
Aliaksei Protas-Connor McMichael-Anthony Mantha
Beck Malenstyn-Nic Dowd-Nicolas Aube-Kubel
Martin Fehervary-John Carlson
Joel Edmundson-Ethan Bear
Trevor van Riemsdyk-Nick Jensen
Charlie Lindgren gets the start
Rangers Lines
Artemi Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Alexis Lafreniere
Chris Kreider-Mika Zibanejad-Will Cuylle
Jimmy Vesey-Barclay Goodrow-Blake Wheeler
Anton Blidh-Nick Bonino-Jonny Brodzinski
Ryan Lindgren-Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller-Jacob Trouba
Erik Gustafsson-Braden Schneider
Jonathan Quick gets the start.
Injuries: Filip Chytil (concussion), Kaapo Kakko (knee), Tyler Pitlick (lower body)
Crazy Prediction: A game where no one complains. So, not likely, but we can hope?
Game time is 1pm.
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