RANGERS at PENGUINS
7:30 p.m. ET; MAX, TNT
Welcome to the Opening Night!
The 2024–25 season will mark the New York Rangers’ 98th year of play and their 99th overall season. The team enters this season as the defending Presidents’ Trophy champions.
The New York Rangers will begin their season on the road against the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight. Coming off a season in which they won the President’s Trophy, the Rangers are aiming for continued success, while the Penguins’ championship window may be closing, if it hasn’t already.
Despite making some changes to their depth and acquiring Reilly Smith in a trade, the Rangers’ core remains intact, suggesting they’ll likely produce similar results to last season. Last year, they ranked in the top 10 in goals scored, goal differential, and power-play goals, indicating they’ll continue to be an offensive force. In goal, they can count on former Vezina Trophy winner Igor Shesterkin, who has a 5-2 record in his last seven games against the Penguins, allowing two or fewer goals in five of those contests.
The Penguins had a relatively quiet offseason, with their most notable moves being trading Reilly Smith and acquiring Kevin Hayes. Without significant changes, the team’s performance is expected to mirror last year, with a mediocre outcome, propped up by Sidney Crosby’s efforts.
This matchup is shaping up to be a case of good versus great. While the Penguins are still a solid team, the Rangers are on another level. Though it’s never easy to bet against Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, at 37 and 38 years old, the Penguins’ veterans may struggle to keep up with the younger, faster Rangers.
Rangers projected lineup
Chris Kreider — Mika Zibanejad — Reilly Smith
Artemi Panarin — Vincent Trocheck — Alexis Lafreniere
Will Cuylle — Filip Chytil — Kaapo Kakko
Adam Edstrom — Sam Carrick — Jonny Brodzinski
K’Andre Miller — Adam Fox
Braden Schneider — Jacob Trouba
Zac Jones — Victor Mancini
Igor Shesterkin
Jonathan Quick
Scratched: Chad Ruhwedel, Matt Rempe
Injured: Ryan Lindgren (upper body), Jimmy Vesey (lower body)
Courtesy of NHL.
148 responses to “It’s Go Time!”
This time for real!
let’s gogogogogogogo!!!
FIRE SATHER!
FIRST
NEW YORK RANGERS ARE IN DA HOUWSEEEE!!!
SSDD
Same shirt, different day.
pre-season over!
I’m FIRST!!!! WOOOOOO!!!
Hayes – that has to be so tough.
Greg – excited?
IT IS TIMEEEEEEE, GO TIME that is soooooo send the kids next door and lock out the cat… it’s Hackey tonight!!!
sure am Headzo!! Thanks for asking!
scoreeeeeeeeeees!!!
4th line!
Woot
Lindor grand slam and NYR first goal within 5 minutes of each other.
The Sam Carrick Era begins
Lindsanity
Chytll giving ice chickens chll
Anyone have Carrick on the first team shot of the season on their bingo card?
Cool!
Booyah! Kakko is a point per game player.
Woot woot
what a pass by the Finn
uh oh
How many cuylle goals will be waived off this year?
🤦🏼♂️
toow toow
Not cool
At least two. They haven’t taken away a not-actually-kicked-in goal yet for him.
I like how they showed a still of the best camera angle available.
of course they take it away
Fox already giving pucks away in the regular season like he did in the preseason.
The boys are still getting pinned in for lengthy segments. Same shirt…
Edstrom crushed Haze on his last shift. Big Swede finishes checks
me likey
wow!
Laffy #1
Lafren!
toe drag shhhwag
Woot woot.
Picking up where he left off.
Fox with another give away
That one’s for you, Eli. Wherever you are.
Great zone time by the 3rd line
BOOFRIGGINYAH!!
K ration!
clinic in Pissburgh
They almost look like the Panthers last night
3 goals, good start.
Good period?
WOW! Just WOW…
Rangers 26
pens 0
gwg – Sudden Sam Carrick
with some puck luck – lafrenchie could score 50 this year. No joke…
Carick > Good-row
Woot woot woot
Sam Carrick good on dot, steady pk, throws hands w the big boys and finishes checks.
Let’s Fuggin Go Mets!!!
the goals are nice but the key to the game for me has been Vittorio 🤌🤌
let’s see Lafreniere stink on the power play!
tnt trying to jinx the next pens shot begins Igor
coolio just squished Gary
Well, that wasn’t cool
Shesty in mid-contract negotiation season form.
Woot woot woot woot
The Chyt is on!
Nice give and go by Coolio and flip
BOOYAKASHA!
Nota give and go. Just looked like it. Lol
And these goals count because they are even strength goals and not PP goals.
Smith has given the puck up twice in his own zone on this shift.
Jackie in fine form too..
Trouba kinda saved a goal there
Even though it was still a lazy penalty
Trochek held it for a half second too long
First Ranger game jamesgeau
Boom boom smacked Cindy?
will be a crowd fav
Saint Ivony and Ebory
I think my parents had a few Victor Mancini records in their house.
Friggin Kakko
If kakko had an nhl shot!
What a crap move
Half-decent period?
Hope they don’t play that passing crap on home ice. They’d get booed, winning by 4 or not.
Biz picking up where he left off too. Loudmouth pigeon
Henke’s hair is in mid-season fabulous form as well.
Whoever it was that brought the puck in the pens zone first got absolutely wrapped up away from the boards and no call
If someone’s going to take a one-timer on the power play, I’d much rather it be Zika than Fox.
Kakko can’t buy a goal
Kakko needs a raise, he can’t buy a goal.
Jamesgeau #2
damn you, Olga
After the first thousand or so they sort of lose their charm.
the studio team is unbelievable, can Kenny get back to calling the game at some point?
Apparently the only player that Jarry likes playing against is Kakko. He’s Kakko’s kryptonite.
Nope, Olga. Jamesgeauer till I die
Rempe invisible out there tonight.
That may not be unique element to Jarry
Did i just have a short bad trip?
Gotta cut it with the lazy penalties even though that was an INCREDIBLY weak call.
Real nothing little penalty, great call
That’s the Kman I remember.
KRIEDS!!!
Woot woot woot woot woot
How old is Kreids? Yowza!
5-0 A lot of people now dressed as empty seats.
SIX PACK
BOOM SHAKALAKA!!
Touchdown!
Me likey
Vermont!
Woot woot woot woot woot woot woot
That place looks like the Panthers arena in the middle of games not too long ago.
that’s game 🙂
Gravy, you miscounted the woots, unless you’re pulling a Nostradamus….
How long since Shesty’s last shutout?
Shesty really wants those stacks.
Remember, they whomped buffalo in the opener last season and then had a couple of stinkers right after.
Shesty is earning his additional (extra) million with this shut out. His first in this season.
No goals.
Olga, 3 seconds
Shesty get extra 1M per year for each shutout?
I assumed they would kick the extra point.
At least it’ll be super easy to run the Shesty shutout counter this season.
a very nice performance
Total domination from about the 5 minute mark on.
Pizza man better start selling more pies
Yanks!
Rangers did their job and the Yanks took care of their.
does kreiders 2nd goal count since wasn’t 5 on 5. and his 1st was 5 on 4 1/2
subway series?
Trouba gained a stay tonight from the governor.
Last five goals no longer count because they didn’t need them.
looks like trocheck got that goal
loved the play of Chytil’s line. If only Kapo could score they would be very hard to play against. All in all,a very nice start to the season. Back home on Sat.
Just a crazy thought. How strange is it for a professional sports team to play without a nickname. This Utah hockey club stuff is very lame. I wonder if it has ever happened before.
LGR
Anson Carter needs to shave. That beard does absolutely nothing for him.
Maple leafs got shutout too… by Montreal
well, third lines can use a guy like Jesper Kakko too
Good start to the season. Can’t put much stock in the first 10-15 games or so, but I’ll take the whooping they put on tonight.
Let’s get another vs the Utah Jazz Coyotes Sat night.
FIRST
hope Minx got in the sub, just heard st. Pete got 9″ in 3 hours 😱
I left St. Pete, city of blues….in the midst of a storm I’d rather forget…
bring on the Utah Bigamists….
3rd line was a force
Chytil even mixing it up in front of net and cuylle coming in to protect like a madman was great to see
too bad cuylle goal called back, at least it was his own fault on the offsides
wonder how the fans with the early “iiiigorre” chant felt afterwards?
Utah Jazz Coyotes!
Two 6-0 games last night. Crazy.
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