The Rangers are back at it tonight after a thrilling win on Monday against the Colorado Avalanche. It’s another tough matchup with the Tampa Bay Lightning coming to town, but these aren’t the same old Lightning. They are good and they have a great goalie, but they simply aren’t as deep as they used to be and they lack depth scoring. Still, they are no pushover.
The Rangers are still struggling to produce offense at 5v5 right now, something they certainly need to fix at the trade deadline. Exacerbating this issue is the powerplay, which has gone very cold and has been sub-20% for the last two months. They are nowhere near as automatic, and that exposes the 5v5 play.
Tampa isn’t the best opponent to right the ship on offense, but if the defensive effectiveness is there, the Rangers will be in it.
Lightning Lines
Nick Paul-Brayden Point-Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel-Anthony Cirelli-Steven Stamkos
Michael Eyssimont-Tyler Motte-Connor Sheary
Alex Barre-Boulet-Luke Glendening-Mitchell Chaffee
Victor Hedman-Darren Raddysh
Mikhail Sergachev-Erik Cernak
Emil Martinsen-Lillberg-Nicklaus Perbix
Andrei Vasilevskiy gets the start.
Rangers Lines
Artemi Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Alexis Lafreniere
Chris Kreider-Mika Zibanejad-Blake Wheeler
Will Cuylle-Jonny Brodzinski-Kaapo Kakko
Jimmy Vesey-Barclay Goodrow-Tyler Pitlick
Erik Gustafsson-Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller-Braden Schneider
Zac Jones-Ryan Lindgren
Jonathan Quick gets the start.
Injuries: Filip Chytil (concussion)
Crazy Prediction: Eventually a crazy prediction involving an offensive outburst will happen, right?
Game time is 7pm.
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