The New York Rangers are in the midst of a rough slump, going 1-4-1 in their last five games as goaltending has come crashing back down to Earth. The league average goaltending has exposed the Rangers defensive woes, as the second and third pairs are getting buried. Yet those pairs remain the same, so hopefully the deployment will change to hopefully get more out of those four defensemen. The only lineup change is flipping Pavel Dorofeyev and Gabe Perreault to try to get the former going.
The Oilers are a lot like the Rangers, as they are a tale of two teams. One team is the Oilers with Connor McDavid on the ice, the other is without him on the ice. Much like the Rangers with Adam Fox on/off the ice, the splits for the Oilers are real bad without McDavid. This is the only way to slow the Oilers down right now.
Rangers Lines (again assumes Durzi does not play)
Pavel Dorofeyev-Mika Zibanejad-Alexis Lafreniere
Tye Kartye-JT Miller-Oliver Bjorkstrand
Will Cuylle-Noah Laba-Gabe Perreault
Eeli Tolvanen-Luke Glendening-Taylor Raddysh
Vlad Gavrikov-Adam Fox
Marcus Pettersson-Scott Morrow
Alberts Smits-Braden Schneider
Dylan Garand gets the start.
Scratches: Matt Rempe
Injuries: Sean Durzi (day to day), Joe Veleno (IR – lower body), Joonas Korpisalo (IR – lower body), Igor Shesterkin (LTIR – lower body)
Oilers Lines
Vasily Podkolzin-Connor McDavid-Leon Draisaitl
Colton Dach-Ryan Nugent-Hopkins-Kaperi Kapanen
Alex Formenton-Jason Dickinson-Mathieu Joseph
Trent Frederic-Owen Michaels-Filip Hallander
Mattias Ekholm-Evan Bouchard
Ryan Shea-Connor Murphy
Shakir Mukhamadullin-Ty Emberson
Matt Tomkins gets the start.
Game time is 6pm.
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