The Rangers can’t get out of their own way. Despite a generally solid performance against Seattle, where they put up 5 goals, they still found a way to lose due to horrible defensive miscues and poor goaltending. The goaltending can be explained away as a one-off from a strong backup goalie that wasn’t expecting to play that day, but the defense issues can’t be explained away, especially not after they sent Jacob Trouba to Anaheim.
The easy part of the Rangers schedule is coming to a close, and if the Rangers continue to play like this, the better teams will steamroll them and more heads will roll. We know more moves are coming, but this season is on the brink of being unsalvageable.
Chicago Lines
Ilya Mikheyev-Connor Bedard-Philipp Kurashev
Taylor Hall-Ryan Donato-Tyler Bertuzzi
Nick Foligno-Jason Dickinson-Teuvo Teravainen
Pat Marroon-Lukas Reichel-Craig Smith
Alex Vlasic-Connor Murphy
Nolan Allen-Alec Martinez
Wyatt Kaiser-TJ Brodie
Arvid Soderblom gets the start.
Rangers Lines
Artemi Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Alexis Lafreniere
Will Cuylle-Filip Chytil-Kaapo Kakko
Chris Kreider-Mika Zibanejad-Reilly Smith
Adam Edstrom-Sam Carrick-Brett Berard
Ryan Lindgren-Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller-Braden Schneider
Zac Jones-Victor Mancini
Igor Shesterkin gets the start.
Crazy Prediction: Not one egregious defensive mistake.
Game time is 7pm.
