The New York Rangers will play their second preseason game tonight as they host the New Jersey Devils at 7 pm at Madison Square Garden.
The New York Rangers, who are coming off a 1-0 win over the New York Islanders on an OT goal by Neil Pionk, are preparing to take on the Devils with another strong lineup for coach Alain Vigneault to evaluate.
NYR lines at prax, expected to play vs. NJ on Wed:
Kreider-Andersson-Gropp; Puempel-Hayes-Zuccarello; Catenacci-Desharnais-Desjardins:— Steve Zipay (@stevezipay) September 19, 2017
Looks as if 1st rounder Filip Chytil will play tomorrow vs. Devs. He's centering Vesey and Tambellini. More lines, d-pairs coming up
— Steve Zipay (@stevezipay) September 19, 2017
New York Newsday reporter Steve Zipay tweeted the lines the team went with at practice yesterday. Jimmy Vesey-Filip Chytil–Adam Tambellini Chris Kreider–Lias Andersson–Ryan Gropp, Matt Puempel-Kevin Hayes–Mats Zuccarello and Catenacci-David Desharnais–Andrew Desjardins are the forwards the Rangers will play in the game tonight. It’s exciting to see the two 18-year-olds Andersson and Chytil both putting in time tonight.
NYR d-pairs:
Skjei-Shattenkirk; Pedrie-Smith; Staal-Gilmour
In goal; Lundqvist/Georgiev— Steve Zipay (@stevezipay) September 19, 2017
Steve also tweeted the defenseman and goalies in action tonight: Brady Skjei–Kevin Shattenkirk, Vince Pedrie-Brendan Smith, Marc Staal-John Gilmour.
Henrik Lundqvist and Alexander Georgiev will share the cage. The team and the home fans will get to see the debut of newly acquired and highly regarded defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk. With the way games have been called so far this preseason, he should get plenty of opportunities on the power play.
Rangers Make Some Cuts
OFFICIAL: #NYR trimmed #NYRTC roster by five. Kovacs, Chapie and Kotyk assigned to @WolfPackAHL.
Gettinger & Ronning assigned to Jr teams. pic.twitter.com/n24vZpFaPC— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) September 19, 2017
The Rangers trimmed their roster a little as they sent Robin Kovacs, Adam Chapie and Brenden Kotyk to the Hartford Wolfpack (AHL). Timothy Gettinger and Ty Ronning were sent back to their Junior teams.
Get Well Soon, Brian Boyle
Boyler, our #NYR family is behind you. We’ll see you on the ice soon. pic.twitter.com/U0WXCunHqM
— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) September 19, 2017
Current New Jersey Devil and former Ranger Brian Boyle was diagnosed with a treatable form of Leukemia.
As I always say, once a Ranger, always a Ranger. Get well soon, Brian. You can read more on this announcement as Chris Kowalchuck covered the story for ESNY.
