NY Rangers Game 71 Open Thread: Rangers vs Ottawa

The Rangers have lost four in a row, getting just a point in the standings over that time. It’s amusing, since during their four game win streak, folks were concerned about their draft position. Now, those concerns seem to have disappeared. The Ranger are in a three way tie for 31st in the league with Chicago and Calgary. Calgary “holds the tiebreaker” in regulation wins over both, and the Rangers hold the secondary tiebreaker in regulation/OT wins over just Chicago. Long story short, if–right now–all three finish with the same amount of points, it’ll be Calgary, New York, Chicago at 29, 30, and 31, respectively.

As of the drafting of this post, Drew Fortescue is not playing. I don’t expect him to play until he’s had a practice or two under his belt, but crazier things have happened. Lineups are assumed as of 830am, as I’ll be at MSG most of the day for the Band of Parents/Play Like A Pro fundraiser.

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Rangers Lines

Gabe Perreault-Mike Zibanejad-Alexis Lafreniere
Conor Sheary-JT Miller-Tye Kartye
Will Cuylle-Vincent Trocheck-Taylor Raddysh
Jonny Brodzinski-Adam Edstrom-Jaro Chmelar

Vlad Gavrikov-Adam Fox
Matthew Robertson-Braden Schneider
Connor Mackey-Will Borgen

Igor Shesterkin gets the start.

Senators Lines

Drake Batherson-Tim Stutzle-Claude Giroux
Brady Tkachuk-Dylan Cozens-Ridly Greig
Nick Cousins-Shane Pinto-Michael Amadio
Warren Foegele-Lars Eller-Fabian Zetterlund

Thomas Chabot-Artem Zub
Tyler Kleven-Jordan Spence
Lassi Thomson-Nikolas Matinpalo

Linus Ullmark gets the start.

Game time is 730pm.