The New York Rangers continue their western Canada swing, playing their final game at the Calgary Saddledome. The Blueshirts played a strong(ish) game in Edmonton on Monday night, but could not solve Devon Levi. If they bring that same structure to Calgary, they should be able to come out on top. That’s a big “if” and “should,” as the Rangers have been wildly inconsistent all season and are essentially playing with three lines for the time being. Though that last bit is less on the players and more on roster construction.
Calgary is not a good team, and that’s putting it nicely. This is a team dressing, at best, two third lines, a fourth line, and an AHL line. But we will get to see old friend Brennan Othmann on the fourth line/AHL line, so that’s something. There is no excuse for the Rangers losing tonight.
Rangers Lines
Gabe Perreault-Mika Zibanejad-Alexis Lafreniere
Tye Kartye-JT Miller-Pavel Dorofeyev
Will Cuylle-Noah Laba-Oliver Bjorkstrand
Eeli Tolvanen-Glenn Gawdin-Jaro Chmelar
Vlad Gavrikov-Adam Fox
Marcus Pettersson-Braden Schneider
Matthew Robertson-Scott Morrow
Joonas Korpisalo gets the start.
Scratches: Matt Rempe, Marc Del Gaizo, Luke Glendening
Injuries: Sean Durzi (IR – LBI), Joe Veleno (IR – LBI), Alberts Smits (IR – UBI), Igor Shesterkin (LTIR – LBI)
Flames Lines
Joel Farabee-Mikael Backlund-Matt Coronato
Yegor Sharangovich-Morgan Frost-Aydar Suniev
Matvei Gridin-Martin Posposil-Ryan Strome
Brennan Othmann-Jonathan Castagna-Adam Klapka
Joel Hanley-Simon Nemec
Jacob Middleton-Zach Whitecloud
Yan Kuznetsov-Zayne Parekh
Devin Cooley gets the start.
Crazy Prediction: The fourth line plays more than 6 minutes.
Game time is 730pm.
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