The Vancouver Canucks take on the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden this afternoon. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
CANUCKS (32-25-12) at RANGERS (33-31-6)
1 p.m. ET; NHLN, MSG, SN, TVAS
Canucks projected lineup
Nils Hoglander — Elias Pettersson — Brock Boeser
Jake DeBrusk — Pius Suter — Kiefer Sherwood
Drew O’Connor — Teddy Blueger — Conor Garland
Dakota Joshua — Nils Aman — Linus Karlsson
Quinn Hughes — Tyler Myers
Marcus Pettersson — Filip Hronek
Derek Forbort — Elias Pettersson
Kevin Lankinen
Arturs Silovs
Scratched: Victor Mancini, Jonathan Lekkerimaki
Injured: Filip Chytil (upper body), Thatcher Demko (lower body), Noah Juulsen (lower body)
Status report:
Chytil did not accompany the Canucks on their six-game road trip that started with a 4-3 overtime loss at the St. Louis Blues on Thursday; the center will miss his third straight game. … Demko has been a full participant in the past two morning skates for Vancouver and is close to returning after not playing since Feb. 8.
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Rangers projected lineup
Artemi Panarin — Vincent Trocheck — Alexis Lafreniere
Will Cuylle — J.T. Miller — Mika Zibanejad
Chris Kreider — Sam Carrick — Jonny Brodzinski
Brennan Othmann — Juuso Parssinen — Matt Rempe
Carson Soucy — Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller — Will Borgen
Zac Jones — Braden Schneider
Igor Shesterkin
Jonathan Quick
Scratched: Calvin de Haan, Urho Vaakanainen, Brett Berard
Injured: Adam Edstrom (lower body)
Status report:
Rempe returns after being a late scratch for a 4-3 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday because of illness. … Berard, a forward, comes out of the lineup after playing 6:35 against Toronto. … The Rangers changed all four line combinations during practice Friday, including moving Zibanejad from center on the top line to wing on the second, with Trocheck moving up into that spot, and swapping Krieder and Lafreniere.
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