NY Rangers Game 13: Rangers at Detroit

The Rangers have now laid a few too many eggs in a short span for us to be comfortable with how they started the season. The lines are in a blender, the defense pairs that aren’t working remain the same, and players that aren’t playing well and/or are still injured continue to play significant roles in the lineup. No team is perfect and every team goes through a rough patch, but this one feels self inflicted by the Blueshirts.

The Rangers steamrolled Detroit when they played them a couple weeks ago, but that was when the Rangers were playing well. Detroit may be a bubble team and clearly worse than the Rangers, but they are still dangerous, especially that top line. If the Rangers continue to be a black hole on defense, this won’t end well.

Red Wings Lines

Alex Debrincat-Dylan Larkin-Patrick Kane
Andrew Copp-JT Compher-Lucas Raymond
Jonatan Berggren-Marco Kasper-Vladimir Tarasenko
Michael Rasmussen-Joe Veleno-Christian Fischer

Simon Edvinsson-Moritz Seider
Ben Chiarot-Justin Holl
Albert Johansson-Erik Gustafsson

Ville Husso gets the start.

Rangers Lines

Artemi Panarin-Mika Zibanejad-Alexis Lafreniere
Will Cuylle-Filip Chytil-Kaapo Kakko
Chris Kreider-Vincent Trocheck-Reilly Smith
Adam Edstrom-Sam Carrick-Jimmy Vesey

Ryan Lindgren-Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller-Jacob Trouba
Zac Jones-Braden Schneider

Igor Shesterkin gets the start.

Crazy Prediction: The Rangers don’t lay an egg?

Game time is 7pm.