Toronto Maple Leafs @ New York Rangers
07:00 PM at Madison Square Garden
Watch on: NHLN, TVAS, SNO, MSGSN

The Leafs last game was away on February 25 against the Boston Bruins, which Toronto won by a score of 5-4 in overtime. The Leafs have a record of 36-20-2 for a 0.638 Points %.

The New York Rangers last played away on February 25 against the New York Islanders. The Rangers won by a score of 5-1 in regulation, and their current league record is 29-25-4 for a 0.534 Points %.

Them

The Rangers are just outside a wild card spot, and they are tied with Ottawa with an identical record. The Rangers hold a substantial lead in regulation wins to break a tie. However, they are four points behind Columbus and Detroit, who also have very similar records so far.

In other words, they need every point they can scrape up.

However, as of yesterday, they were missing due to injury or illness K'Andre Miller, J.T. Miller, Chris Kreider and the biggie: Adam Fox. Fox is definitely out while the Millers and Kreider are game-time decisions.

Lines

Mollie Walker via Daily Faceoff at yesterday's practice. K'Andre Miller was in a non-contact jersey.

Artemi Panarin - Vincent Trocheck - Alexis Lafrenière
Chris Kreider - Mika Zibanejad - Will Cuylle
Jimmy Vesey - Sam Carrick - Reilly Smith
Brennan Othmann - Jonny Brodzinski - Matt Rempe

K'Andre Miller - Will Borgen
Ryan Lindgren - Urho Vaakanainen
Zac Jones - Braden Schneider

Igor Shesterkin - starter
Jonathan Quick

Us

In a roster-space move to get an extra defender for the road trip, Max Pacioretty is not on IR. Interesting that Chris Tanev is not.

Lines

Matthew Knies - Auston Matthews - Mitch Marner
Pontus Holmberg - John Tavares - William Nylander
Bobby McMann - Max Domi - Nicholas Robertson
Steven Lorentz - David Kämpf - Ryan Reaves

Morgan Rielly - Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Jake McCabe - Philippe Myers
Simon Benoit - Conor Timmins

Anthony Stolarz - starter
Joe Woll

The Game

The Rangers situation is the reason I ignore those strength of schedule calculations. Just because a team is out of the playoffs, doesn't mean they aren't going to hit you with their best effort in a bid to get there. It's not like Boston just rolled over.

Every game is against a tough team.

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