The New York Rangers are finally ending this awful season. At least it ends with a decent run and some hope, but there’s plenty of work to do in the offseason. The first item up will be the draft lottery, where the Rangers can really help themselves with a loss tonight in Tampa. A regulation loss clinches 30th and the third overall pick heading into the draft lottery. Calgary would need to at least tie the Rangers in points to finish ahead of them (29th) in the standings.
Tampa doesn’t have much to play for with 2nd in the Atlantic clinched. Right now their lineup looks to be the same, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they rest some players tonight.
Rangers Lines
Gabe Perreault-Mika Zibanejad-Alexis Lafreniere
Conor Sheary-JT Miller-Tye Kartye
Will Cuylle-Vincent Trocheck-Jaro Chmelar
Adam Sykora-Noah Laba-Taylor Raddysh
Vlad Gavrikov-Adam Fox
Drew Fortescue-Braden Schneider
Matthew Robertson-Will Borgen
Dylan Garand gets the start.
Lightning Lines
Gage Goncalves-Anthony Cirelli-Nikita Kucherov
Jake Guentzel-Brayden Point-Corey Perry
Zemgus Girgensons-Yanni Gourde-Nick Paul
Oliver Bjorkstrand-Conor Geekie-Scott Sabourin
JJ Moser-Darren Raddysh
Ryan McDonagh-Erik Cernak
Charlie-Edouard D’Astous-Emil Lilleberg
Andrei Vasilevskiy gets the start.
Game time is 7pm.