NY Rangers Game 36: Rangers at Florida

The Rangers are back “in action” tonight against the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. I’m unsure if “action” is what I’d say the Rangers are doing lately. It’s more like physically being there but that’s about it? They sure can’t get out of their own way. It’s funny, they have about 60% of it figured out, but it’s the 40% that makes them lose 11-2 over two games.

Florida is being called the team that broke them, and I think that’s hyperbole. Remember, this same group was a puck bounce away from a 3-1 series lead coming back to MSG. I think their egos broke them, not the Panthers. Maybe closing out 2024 against the last team they actually played hard against is a good thing?

Perhaps it’s poetic?

Panthers Lines

Evan Rodrigues-Aleksander Barkov-Sam Reinhart
Carter Verhaeghe-Sam Bennett-Matthew Tkachuk
Eetu Luostarainen-Anton Lundell-Jesper Boqvist
AJ Greer-Tomas Nosek-Mackie Samoskevich

Gustav Forsling-Aaron Ekblad
Adam Boqvist-Dmitriy Kulikov
Uvis Balinkis-Nate Schmidt

Sergei Bobrovsky gets the start.

Rangers Lines

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

Ryan Lindgren-Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller-Will Borgen
Urho Vaakanainen-Braden Schneider

Igor Shesterkin gets the start.

Crazy Prediction: I’m out of ideas for these.

Game time is 7pm.