Fresh off another awful showing, this time in Chicago, the Rangers are back at their house of horrors to welcome a visiting Montreal Canadiens team that is better than many assumed they would be. The Habs are a point ahead of the Rangers right now, but have two games in hand. To make things worse, the Canadiens are starting a rookie goalie in Jacob Fowler, and we all know how the Rangers welcome rookie goalies with shutouts. Tack on the game is at MSG and the Rangers’ inability to score, and we have…well, you know.

Rangers lines

Artemi Panarin-Mika Zibanejad-Alexis Lafreniere
JT Miller-Vincent Trocheck-Conor Sheary
Will Cuylle-Noah Laba-Brett Berard
Taylor Raddysh-Sam Carrick-Jaroslav Chmelar

Vlad Gavrikov-Braden Schneider
Carson Soucy-Will Borgen
Matthew Robertson-Urho Vaakanainen

Igor Shesterkin gets the start.

Habs lines

Cole Caufield-Nick Suzuki-Zack Bolduc
Juraj Slafkovsky-Oliver Kapanen-Ivan Demidov
Josh Anderson-Owen Beck-Alex Texier
Jake Evans-Joe Veleno-Brendan Gallagher

Mike Matheson-Alex Carrier
Lane Hutson-Noah Dobson
Arber Xhekaj-Adam Engstrom

Jacob Fowler gets the start.

Game time is 7pm.

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