The Washington Capitals and New York Rangers will do battle twice in a row in The Big Apple and the first of those two games is tonight. The big news is that the Caps and Rangers could be missing a combined seven regulars when they take the ice.
They’ll drop the biscuit at 7 PM and Peter has your recap.
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| Record | 26-20-6 | 32-14-5 |
| Shot Attempt % | 48.6% | 51.0% |
| PDO | 101.2 | 101.9 |
| Power Play | 21.1% | 26.3% |
| Penalty Kill | 83.1% | 83.4% |
Projected Lines
As of right now we know that TJ Oshie will not be playing tonight but both Alex Ovechkin and John Carlson are game-time decisions. A worst case scenario Caps lineup could potentially not have a full 18 skaters. Here is my guess at what that could look like:
Sprong – Kuznetsov – Wilson
Sheary – Backstrom – Mantha
Eller – Raffl
Hagelin – Dowd – Hathaway
Orlov – Schultz
Dillon – TvR
Chara – Jensen
Vanecek
The Season
| WSH | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOS | 🌮 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 5/11 |
| NJD | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 |
| PHI | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 5/7 | 5/8 |
| NYI | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 |
| PIT | 🤷 | 🤷 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🤷 | 🌮 | 🤷 | 🚽 |
| NYR | 🚽 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 5/3 | 5/5 |
| BUF | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🤷 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🚽 |
Legend: 🌮 = win; 🚽 = loss; 🤷 = OTL
Rangers lineup news
It has been reported that Artemi Panarin will be in New York’s lineup tonight, but they will miss these other four.
UPDATE: Chris Kreider, Jacob Trouba, Ryan Lindgren and Brett Howden are all out tonight. Artemi Panarin (maintenance) is also not skating this morning.
— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) May 3, 2021
Storylines
- As previously mentioned, Ovechkin and Carlson will be game-time decisions and Oshie will be missing the game due to personal reasons.
- We know Vitek Vanecek will be in net tonight and Peter has some analysis on the Vanecek vs Ilya Samsonov question that has been asked this entire season.
- The Caps took a big ole loss to the Pens on Saturday night. It was not a fun one.
Icelandic volcanic eruption
Hot rocks just flying errywhere.
RMNB Coverage of Caps at Rangers
Headline photo: Elizabeth Kong/RMNB
