The New York Rangers continue their Madison Square Garden homestand with a contest against the rival New York Islanders tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
ISLANDERS (27-25-7) at RANGERS (30-26-4)
7 p.m. ET; MSGSN, NHLN, MSG
Islanders Projected Lineup
Anders Lee — Bo Horvat — Jean-Gabriel Pageau
Simon Holmstrom — Brock Nelson — Kyle Palmieri
Hudson Fasching — Casey Cizikas — Maxim Tsyplakov
Kyle MacLean — Marc Gatcomb
Alexander Romanov — Tony DeAngelo
Adam Pelech — Noah Dobson
Scott Mayfield — Ryan Pulock
Adam Boqvist
Ilya Sorokin
Jakub Skarek
Scratched: Anthony Duclair, Scott Perunovich, Pierre Engvall
Injured: Mathew Barzal (lower body), Matt Martin (lower body), Marcus Hogberg (upper body) Semyon Varlamov (lower body), Mike Reilly (heart surgery)
Status Report:
Duclair and Engvall, both forwards, will be scratched with the Islanders using a lineup with 11 forwards and seven defensemen. Tsyplakov and Mayfield will come back into the lineup after they were scratched for a 7-4 win against the Nashville Predators on Saturday.
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Rangers Projected Lineup
Artemi Panarin — Vincent Trocheck — Alexis Lafreniere
Will Cuylle — J.T. Miller — Mika Zibanejad
Brennan Othmann — Juuso Parssinen — Jonny Brodzinski
Brett Berard — Sam Carrick — Matt Rempe
K’Andre Miller — Will Borgen
Urho Vaakanainen — Braden Schneider
Calvin de Haan — Zac Jones
Igor Shesterkin
Jonathan Quick
Scratched: Reilly Smith, Matthew Robertson, Arthur Kaliyev
Injured: Adam Fox (upper body), Chris Kreider (upper body), Adam Edstrom (lower body)
Status report:
The Rangers did not have a morning skate after defeating the Predators 4-0 on Sunday. … Smith is expected to miss his second straight game because of roster management purposes. The forward is a candidate to be traded prior to the NHL Trade Deadline, which is 3 p.m. ET on Friday. … Kreider, a forward, and Fox, a defenseman, are on injured reserve. Kreider likely will miss his fifth consecutive game and Fox his third in a row.
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