NY Rangers Game 16 Open Thread: Rangers vs St. Louis

The New York Rangers really need to get things going for themselves. Another lineup shakeup moves Will Cuylle to center in an attempt to get more offense out of the third line. The fourth line with Noah Laba as the 4C and the newly recalled Jaro Chmelar returning to wing might serve as a shutdown line, though Matt Rempe’s role seems to be unknown at the moment. Scott Morrow sticks in the lineup after a great debut this season, hopefully meaning he will render Braden Schneider tradeable in the coming weeks.

St. Louis isn’t that good, so this is a game the Rangers really need to win. Hopefully Cuylle’s adjustment to center isn’t a steep learning curve, and hopefully the fourth line has a role other than “eat minutes” and “provide energy.”

Rangers Lines

Pavel Dorofeyev-Mika Zibanejad-Alexis Lafreniere
Tye Kartye-JT Miller-Gabe Perreault
Eeli Tolvanen-Will Cuylle-Oliver Bjorkstrand
Jaro Chmelar-Noah Laba-Matt Rempe

Vlad Gavrikov-Adam Fox
Marcus Pettersson-Braden Schneider
Alberts Smits-Scott Morrow

Dylan Garand gets the start.

Scratches: Luke Glendening, Matthew Robertson
Injuries: Sean Durzi (day to day), Joe Veleno (IR – lower body), Joonas Korpisalo (IR – lower body), Igor Shesterkin (LTIR – lower body)

Blues Lines

Dylan Holloway-Robert Thomas-Jimmy Snuggerund
Connor McMichael-Mason McTavish-Jonatan Berggren
Jake Neighbours-Dalibor Dvorsky-Pavel Buchnevich
Alexey Toropchenko-Pius Suter-Ross Johnston

Philip Broberg-Brandon Carlo
Cam Fowler-Adam Jiricek
Theo Lindstein-Justin Barron

Joel Hofer gets the start.

Game time is 7pm.