The Rangers are waiting for the season to end. We are waiting for the season to end. Everyone just wants this to be done with. The Rangers’ tragic number is 1, so they would need to win out (not happening) and Montreal would need to lose out (also not happening), plus all teams in between would need to lose out (again, not happening). The season is over. Just play the kids and let us have something to watch.

But of course that won’t happen. As of the writing of this game thread, the lineup will be the same, so Gabe Perreault will again be scratched. There’s a slight chance Peter Laviolette gets fired after the Rangers are officially eliminated from the playoffs, but it’s only a slight chance. May as well let him finish it out and get as high a draft pick as possible, right?

Isles Lines

Anders Lee-Bo Horvat-Kyle Palmieri
Maxim Tsyplakov-JG Pageau-Simon Holmstrom
Pierre Engvall-Casey Cizikas-Hudson Fasching
Matt Martin-Kyle MacLean-Marc Gatcomb

Adam Pelech-Ryan Pulock
Alex Romanov-Tony DeAngelo
Noah Dobson-Scott Mayfield

Marcus Hogberg gets the start.

Rangers Lines

Artemi Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Alexis Lafreniere
Will Cuylle-JT Miller-Mika Zibanejad
Chris Kreider-Sam Carrick-Brett Berard
Brennan Othmann-Jonny Brodzinski-Matt Rempe

Carson Soucy-Adam Fox
Zac Jones-Will Borgen
Urho Vaakanainen-Braden Schneider

Igor Shesterkin gets the start.

Crazy Prediction: The Rangers hold the Isles to under 5 goals.

Game time is 7pm.

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