The New York Rangers will host the New Jersey Devils at Madison Square Garden Tuesday night in another tough divisional battle.
New York Rangers: Â 1-1
New Jersey Devils: 1-0-1
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Television: MSG Networks
Radio: ESPN 98.7
The New York Rangers look to build on their 5-0 shutout over the New York Islanders on Saturday night when the Devils come to Broadway on Tuesday night.
Head coach David Quinn confirmed the same lineup would be used on Tuesday night following practice while also announcing that Alexandar Georgiev would start in net for the Blueshirts. Defenseman Anthony DeAngelo will sit for the second straight contest.
“Much more about sticking with what worked. The discipline piece is done and over with,” Quinn said of DeAngelo as was reported by beat writer Vince Mercogliano.
Lineup
Offense
Kreider-Zibanejad-Buchnevich
Panarin-Strome-Lafreniere
Lemieux-Howden-Gauthier
Di Giuseppe-Chytil-Kakko
Defense
Lindgren-Trouba
Johnson-Fox
Miller-Smith
Georgiev
Shesterkin
Special Teams
The Rangers were 1-for-8 vs. NY Islanders on the power play and killed off all four penalties they took on Saturday night.
The Blueshirts’ game against New Jersey tomorrow is one of only 10 scheduled games this season that is not part of a multiple-game set against one of their opponents (also Feb. 4 vs. WSH, Feb. 6 at NJD, Feb. 8 vs. NYI, Feb. 24 at PHI, Mar. 2 vs. BUF, Mar. 19 at WSH, Mar. 22 vs. BUF, Apr. 20 at NYI, Apr. 23 vs. PHI) via the new york Rangers PR Department.
Mika Zibanejead and Pavel Buchnevich are tied for the team lead in goals scored with two goals each. For the Devils, Myles Wood leads the teams in goals also with two.
This will be the Devil’s first road game of the year. Jack Hughes, the Devil’s first overall selection in last year’s draft, has three assists in the team’s first two games this year.
New Jersey is 0-8 on the power-play this season while allowing one short-handed goal.