NY Rangers Game 3 Open Thread: Rangers at Pittsburgh

The Rangers travel to Pittsburgh for their first of a back-to-back, second of a three-in-four, and second of a four-in-six. The schedule is condensed with the Olympics in February, and the Rangers play every other night for the majority of the season to compensate. They now need to compensate for the loss of Vincent Trocheck for a few weeks, with a bit of a line shakeup.

The Blueshirts will look to exact a little revenge tonight after getting blanked by the Penguins during the home opener. The Rangers were fine defensively, holding Pittsburgh to just one high danger chance, but the offense was slow and virtually non-existent. Only Mika Zibanejad was able to generate a few good chances. The Penguins aren’t good, but they aren’t as bad as many thought they will be. Still, the Rangers are better and should win.

Rangers lines

Artemi Panarin-Mika Zibanejad-Alexis Lafreniere
Will Cuylle-JT Miller-Conor Sheary
Juuso Parssinen-Noah Laba-Taylor Raddysh
Adam Edstrom-Sam Carrick-Matt Rempe

Vlad Gavrikov-Adam Fox
Carson Soucy-Will Borgen
Urho Vaakanainen-Braden Schneider

PP1: Fox, Panarin, Lafreniere, Zibanejad, Miller
PP2: Schneider, Sheary, Cuylle, Panarin, Rempe

Igor Shesterkin gets the start.

Penguins lines

Rickard Rakell-Sidney Crosby-Ville Koivunen
Anthony Mantha-Evgeni Malkin-Justin Brazeau
Tommy Novak-Benjamin Kindel-Philip Tomasino
Connor Dewar-Blake Lizotte-Noel Acciari

Parker Wotherspoon-Erik Karlsson
Ryan Shea-Kris Letang
Caleb Jones-Harrison Brunicke

Arturs Silovs gets the start.

Game time is 7pm.