The Rangers have lost three in a row and have essentially undone all the confidence built when they won three in a row and four of five earlier this month. This all started with Will Borgen’s injury necessitating another defenseman being recalled (Scott Morrow), which required Gabe Perreault to be reassigned to Hartford to make space. This team is a mess right now, and despite Utah’s struggles, the paper lineups are wildly mismatched.
JT Miller is out, nursing an upper body injury. The Rangers say it happened in Colorado, so perhaps whatever has been lingering finally got bad enough he had to sit. The Rangers lines look about as scary as a box of kittens right now. This is not a lineup a playoff team puts out there. Injuries happen, but this is a rough lineup at best.
Rangers lines
Will Cuylle-Mika Zibanejad-Jonny Brodzinski
Artemi Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Alexis Lafreniere
Conor Sheary-Noah Laba-Taylor Raddysh
Adam Edstrom-Sam Carrick-Juuso Parssinen
Vlad Gavrikov-Adam Fox
Carson Soucy-Braden Schneider
Matthew Robertson-Scott Morrow
Jonathan Quick gets the start.
Utah lines
Clayton Keller-Barrett Hayton-Nick Schmaltz
Michael Carcone-Logan Cooley-Dylan Guenther
JJ Peterka-Jack McBain-Lawson Crouse
Brandon Tanev-Kevin Stenlund-Kailer Yamamoto
Mikhail Sergachev-Dmitri Simashev
Nate Schmidt-John Marino
Ian Cole-Nick Desimone
Karel Vejmelka gets the start.
Game time is 9pm.
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