The Rangers seem to find comfort playing away from MSG, or at least they find goals away from MSG. The Oilers on Tuesday night were their first true test of the season, and the Rangers answered the call with a solid game that Stuart Skinner stole from them. Tonight it’s another tough test in Toronto, another playoff team. Toronto is a run and gun team, scoring 17 goals and allowing 15 in their four games this year. For contrast, the Rangers have 10 goals for and 7 against in 5 games.

It will be interesting to see what the lines look like, as Mike Sullivan essentially benched the third line against Edmonton. Noah Laba deserves better linemates and that third line doesn’t really have a role. Will Borgen is a game time decision. If he can’t go, Scott Morrow will be in the lineup.

Rangers lines

Artemi Panarin-Mika Zibanejad-Alexis Lafreniere
Will Cuylle-JT Miller-Conor Sheary
Juuso Parssinen-Noah Laba-Taylor Raddysh
Adam Edstrom-Sam Carrick-Matt Rempe

Vlad Gavrikov-Adam Fox
Matthew Robertson-Will Borgen
Urho Vaakanainen-Braden Schneider

PP1: Fox, Panarin, Lafreniere, Zibanejad, Miller
PP2: Schneider, Sheary, Cuylle, Panarin, Rempe

Igor Shesterkin gets the start.

Leafs lines

Matthew Knies-Auston Matthews-Easton Cowan
Matias Maccelli-John Tavares-William Nylander
Nick Robertson-Max Domi-Bobby McCann
Dakota Joshua-Nicolas Roy-Calle Jarnkrok

Morgan Reilly-Brandon Carlo
Jake McCabe-Chris Tanev
Simon Benoit-Oliver Ekman-Larsson

Anthony Stolarz gets the start.

Game time is 7pm.

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