The Rangers put themselves into a must win game again against Columbus, a team that wrecked them the last time they met in a must win game. The Rangers must win in regulation to have any realistic shot at making the playoffs with this gauntlet of a schedule coming up. Columbus is one of their last games against a truly beatable team (for them) as the next two weeks are pretty rough.
Adm Fox returns for the Rangers, which is huge for them. Carson Soucy comes out, which is also pretty huge since he’s had a rough few games trying to get used to the Rangers system.
Columbus Lines
Dmitri Voronkov-Adam Fantilli-Kirill Marchenko
Kent Johnson-Boone Jenner-Mathieu Oliver
Yegor Chinakov-Justin Danforth-Luke Kunin
Zach Aston-Reese-Sean Kuraly-James van Riemsdyk
Zach Werenski-Dante Fabbro
Denton Mateychuk-Ivan Provorov
Jake Christiansen-Damon Severson
Elvis Merzlikins gets the start.
Rangers Lines
Artemi Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Will Cuylle
Alexis Lafreniere-JT Miller-Mika Zibanejad
Chris Kreider-Sam Carrick-Arthur Kaliyev
Brennan Othmann-Jonny Brodzinski-Matt Rempe
Zac Jones-Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller-Will Borgen
Urho Vaakanainen-Braden Schneider
Igor Shesterkin gets the start.
Crazy Prediction: We don’t pull our hair out.
Game time is 6pm.
