Rangers at Hurricanes … It’s Go Time!

Game 8

Rangers at Hurricanes – 7:30 PM MSG

No poll after the game until I can figure out how, if I can ever figure it out.  This is clearly a half-assed venture. Feel free to list your three stars in the comments and I’ll do my best to aggregate them into a list.

Tonight’s probable lineup for the Rangers (5-2)

Jimmy Vesey-Derek Stepan-Rick Nash

Pavel Buchnevich- Mika Zibanejad-Mats Zuccarello

JT Miller-Kevin Hayes-Jesper Fast

Brandon Pirri-Oscar Lindberg-Michael Grabner

Ryan McDonagh-Dan Girardi

Marc Staal-Kevin Klein

Brady Skjei-Nick Holden

Pavel Buchnevich returns to the lineup in place of Josh Jooris, who will be out 3-4 weeks with a separated shoulder.  Kreider is improving but will miss tonight’s game and Sunday at a minimum.  When he returns, that’s when things will get interesting.

McIlrath cleared waivers today and was assigned to the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack. Clendening remains Prucha’d.

Lundqvist in goal tonight and probably Sunday against Tampa as well.

For the Hurricanes (1-3-2), Jeff Skinner will be a game time decision.  Last year’s Ranger slayer Lee Stempniak will be in the lineup for Carolina and willlikely play with Skinner if Skinner is healthy enough to play.  If not, former Ranger Viktor Stalberg will appear in Skinner’s place. Cam Ward is in goal.

Once again, a personal note, thank you so much for joining me here. If I can make this blog even half as good as Carp’s, I’ll be pretty damn proud.

I will probably be watching this one on a bit of a delay, so don’t expect anything from me during the game itself, or if I do tweet, expect it to be about stuff that happened a long time beforehand.

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