The Rangers lost to Anaheim last night, again scoring just one goal at MSG, bringing their record to 1-2-0 during this soft spot in the schedule. Now the retooling Vancouver Canucks, fresh off trading Quinn Hughes to Minnesota for Marco Rossi and Zeev Buium, are in town as the Rangers try to salvage something before heading to St. Louis later this week. The Rangers need points, but to get points they need goals. When five top players with a combined $41 million in cap space have just 43 goals through 34 games, it doesn’t matter what the rest of the lineup does.
Rangers lines
Artemi Panarin-Mike Zibanejad-Alexis Lafreniere
JT Miller-Vincent Trocheck-Conor Sheary
Will Cuylle-Noah Laba-Brett Berard
Taylor Raddysh-Sam Carrick-Matt Rempe
Vlad Gavrikov-Braden Schneider
Carson Soucy-Will Borgen
Matthew Robertson-Urho Vaakanainen
Jonathan Quick gets the start.
Canucks lines
Jake Debrusk-Marco Rossi-Brock Boeser
Nils Hoglander-David Kampf-Conor Garland
Kiefer Sherwood-Drew O’Connor-Evander Kane
Liam Ohgren-Max Sasson-Linus Karlsson
Marcus Pettersson-Filip Hronek
Zeev Buium-Tyler Myers
Elias Pettersson (D)-Tom Willander
Thatcher Demko gets the start.
Game time is 7pm.