Preseason Game 5: Rangers vs Devils

The Rangers take the ice for the fifth time this preseason as the Devils cross the Hudson. The Blueshirts started the week with a roster almost double the size of what they have now, with 20 players cut from camp in the last three days. The remaining guys are all vying for roster spots, with Gabe Perreault, Noah Laba, Brett Berard (not playing tonight), and Scott Morrow (not playing tonight) all still in camp and seemingly forcing the coaching staff to make tough decisions.

Also still in camp is Conor Sheary, who has been pretty solid in camp thus far. He will play on a line with Juuso Parssinen and Taylor Raddysh as a potential shutdown line, but that to me is also a stopgap line until the kids are ready. It’s also a vegetable line with parsnip and radish, though I’m unsure what Sheary would be (shears? celery?).

Rangers lines

Artemi Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Alexis Lafreniere
Gabe Perreault-Mika Zibanejad-Will Cuylle
Conor Sheary-Juuso Parssinen-Taylor Raddysh
Adam Edstrom-Noah Laba-Matt Rempe

Vlad Gavrikov-Braden Schneider
Carson Soucy-Will Borgen
Matthew Robertson-Scott Morrow

Jonathan Quick
Igor Shesterkin

PP1: Morrow, Zibanejad, Trocheck, Panarin, Lafreniere
PP2: Schneider, Perreault, Sheary, Cuylle, Rempe

Devils lines

Evgenii Dadonov-Jack Hughes-Jesper Bratt
Timo Meier-Nico Hischier-Dawson Mercer
Ondrej Palat-Cody Glass-Connor Brown
Paul Cotter-Luke Glendening-Arseni Gritsyuk

Topias Vilen-Brett Pesce
Jonas Siegenthaler-Dougie Hamilton
Brenden Dillon-Simon Nemec

Game time is 7pm.