NY Rangers Game 9: Rangers at Capitals

The Rangers rebounded nicely over the weekend, beating Anaheim after a tough loss to Florida the previous game. Now the Blueshirts travel to our nation’s capital to take on the upstart Caps, who are turning heads this season with a 5-2-0 start. The Caps are taking advantage of a pretty bad bottom half of the Metro Division as they look to extend their window for another season or two.

The Caps are no push over, despite being a weaker playoff team last season. They made some big moves in the summer, trading for Pierre-Luc Dubois, Andrew Mangiapane, Jakob Chychrun, and Logan Thompson without sacrificing anything major off their roster, unless you count Darcy Kuemper or Nick Jensen as meaningful pieces. They are a well built team, but they shouldn’t be in the same conversation as the Rangers.

Capitals Lines

Aleksi Protas-Dylan Strome-Alex Ovechkin
Connor McMichael-Pierre-Luc Dubois-Tom Wilson
Jakub Vrana-Michael Sgarbossa-Andrew Mangiapane
Brandon Duhaime-Nic Dowd-Taylor Raddysh

Jakob Chychrun-John Carlson
Rasmus Sandin-Trevor van Riemsdyk
Martin Fehervary-Dylan McIlrath

Logan Thompson gets the start.

Rangers Lines

Artemi Panarin-Vincent Trocheck-Alexis Lafreniere
Chris Kreider-Mika Zibanejad-Reilly Smith
Will Cuylle-Filip Chytil-Kaapo Kakko
Adam Edstrom-Sam Carrick-Matt Rempe

K’Andre Miller-Adam Fox
Ryan Lindgren-Jacob Trouba
Zac Jones-Braden Schneider

Igor Shesterkin gets the start.

Crazy Prediction: Rempe doesn’t get asked to fight.

Game time is 7pm.