NY Rangers Game 61: Rangers vs Islanders

The Rangers are teetering back and forth with contending and not contending this season. It’s clear they are selling their pending UFAs, but they are also still trying to make the playoffs. The JT Miller trade is evident of that. They’ve been playing well the last few games, beating the Isles and Predators sandwiching one of those best games of the year that they lost against Toronto.

The Rangers are currently four points behind Detroit and Columbus and tied with Ottawa, though Ottawa has a game in hand. A 16-6 record gets them to 96 points and a likely playoff spot. It begins tonight against the Islanders. But watch out for the free falling Devils…

Isles Lines

Anders Lee-Bo Horvat-Anthony Duclair
Simon Holmstrom-Brock Nelson-Kyle Palmieri
Casey Cizikas-JG Pageau-Maxim Tsyplakov
Pierre Engvall-Kyle MacLean-Marc Gatcomb

Alex Romanov-Tony DeAngelo
Scott Perunovich-Ryan Pulock
Adam Pelech-Adam Boqvist

Ilya Sorokin gets the start.

Rangers Lines

Artemi Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Alexis Lafreniere
Will Cuylle-JT Miller-Mika Zibanejad
Brennan Othmann-Juuso Parssinen-Jonny Brodzinski
Brett Berard-Sam Carrick-Matt Rempe

K’Andre Miller-Will Borgen
Urho Vaakanainen-Braden Schneider
Zac Jones-Calvin de Haan

Igor Shesterkin gets the start.

Crazy Prediction: The Rangers pull Panarin for a mid-game trade (meant to change yesterday’s to this).

Game time is 7pm.