NY Rangers (20-20-3) vs Utah TBD (18-18-7)
• 16 Jan 2025 21:00 EST
• Delta Arena, SLC Utah
• TV: MSG, Utah16 •
The Rangers have traveled from the mountains of Colorado to the Wasatch range to take on the Utah Hockey Team Not Yet Named, formerly of Arizona. This is a billed as “The battle of 500” as one team will no longer have a .500 P% after tonight! Not only do they share a .500 P%, they are both -10 in GF/GA differential (124/134 NYR, 120/130 UTAH). Unlike the Rangers, who are also 500 whether home or away, Utah is a better team on the road. So perhaps tonight the NYR can add two points to the bank rather than just one and crank up that playoff run.
Utah has had a tough stretch of games, 2-7-1 in their last 10, though against fairly good competition. The Rangers have generally been playing better, at least in the sense of team defense, going 4-4-2 with three games decided in OT. Utah specialty units are just above the NHL mid-point and they are 12th in FO% at 51.3% to the NYR 53.7% (2nd)
Line-up wise: Both teams are expected to ice the same line-ups used in their most recent games (both lost) – Shesterkin in net for NYR, Vejmelka (2.48 GAA, 0.912 SV%) for Utah.
Your fine NHL officials tonight are Trevor Hanson (710 GP), no relation to Dave, Steve or Jeff, eh, and Chris Schlenker (437 GP). Both these zebras like to put their arms up and use that whistle because golly, that’s why Gary gave it to them. Hanson especially has a thing for flagging the visitors.
Keys to a Ranger victory today: Eström, Carrick and Rempe must all score a goal.
On this date in history: In 1936, Bert Connelly scored the first penalty shot in NYR history, the game winning goal in a match against Toronto.
Speculative NYR lineup
Forwards
1st line ⊳ Panarin ⋄ Trocheck ⋄ Lafrenière
2nd line ⊳ Cuylle ⋄ Zibanejad ⋄ Smith
3rd line ⊳ Kreider ⋄ Chytil ⋄ Kaliyev
4th line ⊳ Edström ⋄ Carrick ⋄ Rempe
Defensemen
1st pair ⊳ Lindgren ⋄ Fox
2nd pair ⊳ Miller ⋄ Borgen
3rd pair ⊳ Vaakanainen ⋄ Schneider
Goalies
Starter ⊳ Shesterkin
Backup ⊳ Quick
Healthy scratch: D Jones F Vesey F Brodzinski
Injured: none
In the Cooler: none
Long-term IR: none
251 responses to “It’s Go Time!”
foist
Rangers 5
bigamists 0
gwg Rempinator
gold silver and bronze
David Lynch – dead “Mommmmmmy”
it was declared early on that Utah is a playoff team but I’m not so sure.
it was also a foregone conclusion early on that the Rangers are a playoff team but we see where that got us.
nobody knows nuttin’ – LGR!
LGR!
Kakko with another point so far tonight.
Release the Ents!
Hopefully the twin towers get 10+ TOI tonight. Likewise, hopefully someone gives Laffy a swift kick in the keister
Rangers just need a good 58:59
Plenty of time.
offside ?….bad Meeks boo is playing tonight
100% on Shesty!!!!
Great. I haven’t even turned it on yet. Smh
The Panthers are losing to Detroit too. But we need them to win that because Detroit is ahead of us.
They always screw up when it would help us except when they play us.
How long since Shesty’s last one?
ESPN+is behind. The goal came up on the NHL app before it happened lol
At least Bread is awake
Is Shesty a 12mil lemon? Too early to cry, too late to laugh?
I’m guessing 99 days since I believe the last time was 97. I’ll check though
Wayne Gretzky days since Shesterkin’s last shutout.
Bread man tells a tale!
Schneider was tripped. The dudes stick pushed his skate.
And I don’t think Bjugstad threw one hit when he was with the Panthers.
And how long since E3’s last cable lay?
Not many hours since E3’s last….
Sergachev (A)>Laffy(A)>Panarin(G). Thanks comrade.
Woot, per Gravy
Will there be Sam Rosen night at the Garden before season end?
They will win the cup for Sam this year. Book it.
https://www.foreverblueshirts.com/new-york-rangers-news/brutal-night-prospects-latest-wolf-pack-loss-devils-affiliate/
wolfpack struggles
EV does that mean its time to play 99 Luftballons?
They look like homemade s#it in their own end.
Holy giveaway Cheadle
Shesty blew another one
“Defenseman Victor Mancini was minus-4 and forwards Brennan Othmann and Brett Berard each was minus-3.”
We should give that guy 12 million bucks. He definitely looks worth it
Mika a boo sux
Is Eyegor ready to give back about 8M a year?
how about that 11m dollar goalie
So we stink again. They will be sellers at the deadline.
If only we had a young player that has three multigoal games. I don’t think we have any veterans with that outside of maybe Panarin.
headzo – I dropped a deuce 4pm PST
zib softer than E3’s bidet stream. Swatted out of the front of the net with barely an effit
They look like bird poop now. Confidence is back to less than zero.
Asi said, not much hours for E3.
Bad time for me E3 – that’s jeopardy time here on the east coast
That’s two straight Shesterkin bad rebounds that Lindgren couldn’t keep out of the net.
headzo – my logs are great in compression not so good in tension…
Three more assists and Kakko will have as many points as he had all season with us.
I meant to say, in the same manner. If he scores goals it’ll be the same points too.
Upstate at least Mothman didn’t take any penalties
good news ottawa with 0 goals thru 3. unfortunately so does wash. so loser point as they play for the extra pt
columbus won and det will win
Every single trailer has been unchecked by the Rangers. They’ve gotta get their heads out of their assholes.
Every single trailer has been unchecked by the Rangers. They’ve gotta get their heads out of their a-holes.
E3 the time under tension is the important stat
BOOM KALIYAKA!!
Arturo!
If only someone else than old man Kreider would get net front like that
King Arthur!
First as a ranger – feels good
amazing utah didn’t score there
Woot to the 2nd power, per Gravy
A Utah guy broke his stick and had time to go to the bench and get a new one and Utah still had the puck. 🤦🏼♂️
Why are the Rangers always late to the party? Every single team has been throwing picks because they never get called and we haven’t thrown one.
Can’t call penalties on Utah, but sure can on the Rangers….
ottawa only got the 1 point
Of course it was Ovechkin🙄
EV did you read my pre-game?
If we lose, at least we can’t get any further away from the last wild card spot.
Eyegor Mr. Rebound tonight
leaky D, wide open
good grind shift by 3rd line prior to 34’s tally
Another huge Ranger defensive period. 16 shots against.
Utah sucks in the second period. That would be awesome if we didn’t already know how the Rangers do in the middle frame.
>You can take all the MATH in China
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around all the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
The NHL app has the video of Kaliyev’s goal but none of the previous three. NHL stepping up as usual.
Meeka / Lindy on ice together is tough to overcome
Shesty Morgan bouncing out of the crease, where Benoit balls to coach him up? Hanging w Rammer?
Coos – I fixed your last post. Please don’t cut and paste from that website, it shows up as links. If you do, remove the linkage before hitting comment. Thanks!
Toronto beat the Derbils. But guess how many periods it took…
If Montreal gets at least a point tonight then every team between us and the final wildcard spot will have gotten at least a point tonight.
Someone check on Lavi, he may be sick. He played Rempe 4:03 and Chytil 4:21. 🤣
Both teams coaches are telling their team to “Shoot the Puck, the other can’t stop a beach ball.”
goalie
yay
Were back to being the strangers.
Guess who didn’t stay in front of the net?
Utah getting goals just like wives tonight
Trade. That. Mother effer.
How many times must it be said. Fire K’Andre Miller into the sun. I don’t CARE if he develops into a player on another team- just get him off mine!
sell! sell! Sell! This act is getting old. They give up 8 or 9 tonight?
We all know our defense is suspect but honestly Igor’s missed like three? four goals the past two games that he should have stopped without major issue.
Again – Zib & Miller
Beez – my stress/strain ratio is close to zero
Did they go skiing today?
Shesty not at his besty
not sure why Kreider was waiting for puck on boards on pk
We’re back to not shutting out the opponent in second periods…
Had to know that wouldn’t have lasted more than one game…
Dam it dam it Miller’s gotta go. He’s cost us too many games
rangers 14
bigamists 13
gwg – Sam I am
Hopefully Shesty leaves the game he’s playing on the road before they come back home.
Igor sucks
despite his high GSAx stats
Was Lavi coaching Craps last time he used a TO?
This game is over. They’re all playing with one foot because they shot the other one off.
Good to see we’re lazy and sh-tty again. Good on ya, fellas. Wouldn’t want to dish out that ol’ false hope!
Didn’t he use a TO before that amazing power play in OT in Denver the other night?
Utah man brags he has 3 wives. “Isn’t that big-of-me?”
Hopefully K’andre broke an ankle there.
hi I’m from Salt Lake City. Meet my sister. She’s also my cousin and wife.
Another uncalled pick
Holy Crap! They called it!
Panarin was a foot away from passing the puck back for another shorthanded breakaway.
20 SOGs allowed vs 8 SOGs taken. The sh!t show is back.
Can’t wait to watch a stagnant 5 on 3. Perhaps they can take it one step further and give up a SHG!
After that OT power play last game, does anyone have any faith in this 5 on 3?
They convert this I’ll eat my hat
The dreaded 5on3..
Quick whistle of course
Whytf is Trocheck not out there taking FOs?
Zibanefreakinbad
Rangers got one shot into the logo on a long ass 5 on 3
Mika should not be on the 5-on-3
I answered the door one day and this guy says he’s Rev. Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
I said Oh my God that’s great! I thought you were the effing Mormons!
They’re back to taking too much time with the puck and not having anything to do with it when they get it.
This team is so predictably bad. SO bad. Let them go on another free-fall to just put them out of their misery and sell at the deadline. We’ll get a high draft pick too that we can poorly develop. The future’s so bright I’ve gotta wear shades…..
Seattle 5 on 4 > Strangers 5 on 3
round the outside round the outside
my lawdy lawd
Finally hit double digit shots count
right round like a record baby right round right round…
need to get Foxy on point; Bread on the left dot and Meeka off the ice.
That laffy pass out of the zone is the perfect analogy to the rangers season.
Begging on penalties is not a good look when your power play sucks as hard as this
SN, you don’t enjoy watching Mika whiffing on one timers on the pp all the time?
Schneider was held, no call.
But does anyone here really want to watch the Strangers on another power play?
Edstrom > Mika, can he take faceoffs?
There’s always at least one guy on every crappy team that kills the strangers.
Mika poo is stinky
I warned everyone not to let them suck you back in. It was an illusion. The leopard doesn’t change its stripes.
We’re losing to a team that doesn’t even have a name… 🤷♂️
I feel a dangers goal coming on….
Mormon coach is a cue ball head
That might’ve been the easiest trivia question that I’ve ever had to at least look up to make sure I was right
The usual Ranger inability to take advantage of a guy without a stick.
Craig, we’ve already lost to them, so 🤷🏻♂️
Well, it was a nice 5 game or so run.
The Rangers done really have a good period. Some are worse than others.
Unless we’re on the Dallas side of this one from when they last played us.
Dallas never had the lead in that one until it meant something.
If they’ve already had their best period, I don’t know what to tell you… especially because they haven’t had one.
I thought it would all turn around once we got Vaakanainen.
Action – Sam comments that Seattle hasn’t had a shot in a long time.
Equal But Opposite Reaction – Seattle keeps the puck in our zone for an hour.
Defense has been the name of the game but only one of the two teams plays it well
Tell you what, I would absolutely trade for JT Miller, because at least he has a set of balls and would call players out for playing this garbage brand of pond hockey.
les Habs win
Send Rempe tf down if you’re only gonna put him out there for under 5 minutes.
Lavi is over his brief illness, Rempe glued to bench for no apparent reason
We’ll know if this season is officially in the crapper after the next 4 games that are all against teams between us and the last wildcard spot.
please stop passing to Miller
Back to the box to start another period.
CraigW – the problem is that the Rangers are too predictable. They seem to think nobody would watch tape and figure out how to take their game away.
Lafrenière penalty for touching someone with his stick.
Beezle, unfortunately it always looks like the strangers are the ones not watching video.
You do that, you go to the box, you know. Two minutes, by yourself, you know and you feel shame, you know. And then you get free.
a shortie to open the third follows by 3 quick goals. I touch dead people.
Rempe two shifts, 1:30. Edstrom five shifts, 3:49
Sloppy second
D is leaking oil
Bread East-west turnover special
Meeka-boo back to his disappearing act
Time to see the wizard
have faith brethren. We shall overcome. Like many of you I’d like to live a long time. Longevity has its place. I may not get there with you. But we as a people will get to the promise land.
We’ll get there a lot quicker if we all keep watching the rangers.
E3 that’s all sounding a little 2525ish to me
Beez – I lean hard left.
DJ Mika Poopy Pants, I’m beginning to think, is not a ranger fan
Oh snap. I feel lazy like the strangers. I read the trivia question wrong.
I hear dead people
I hadn’t even looked at the screen yet. LMAO
Lean left and wipe right
Who called that shg?
There’s a loud Ranger fan in the crowd singing the goal song😂
Rangers score while nobody is looking
Smitty Shortie
I smell dead people
… Followed by 3 quick goals for the Utes?
I called it…
WW – I hope not. Three fur the good guys…
Was SamIAm a converted defender? Because he seems to play better defense than Miller
Who’s ready to give up a PPG right after that SHG? I know I am…..
Well, it’s official. Zika didn’t get any better after that goal.
E3 since you didn’t specify so I jump to the likely conclusion
Is Lafren the next ranger to take a couple of games for personal reasons?
Maccelli…. We make the guy look like Pastrnak as only we could.
Still trying to figure out what it was Rempe did/didn’t do to deserve benching
Craig, Pastrnak is not having a good season
He got called up, Beezle.
Beez – rempster was breathing
EV,
But you get my point…
Rempe took a dump in the coaches bathroom and left a big floater
That third line barely more time than edstrom. Laviolette really leaning on his high octane top-6 sidewinders based on their demonstrated recent track record of success
Kreider is either still very hurt, or he’s aged 10 years since last May.
Lavi sucks…. He may not have at one point, but he does now
Uh oh, rangers man disadvantage.
Play for the poontang!
Uh, for the point… 🙄
Nyr ssomehow consistently get outnumbered on the puck during their own power plays
It would help if the Rangers could stay on their feet
that’s one
seems like a decent amt of penalties called so guys not on special teams get less time
Bread is just pressing on PP and Tto and Meeka cannot do anything
BOOM SHAKALAKTHE!!
Old man Kreider rips one from the slot. I should talk about him more often.
They do better shorthanded. Although the shorty was a gift.
E3 hears dead plumbers
CK20 says shoot the puck
Time for the Rangers to go back into their defensive shell that works so well and leads to no more than two shots… For them.
Edstroms had 15 shifts Alex
Laffy loves that curl and drag move, but it only works against Detroit.
E3 I know you like #1’s but #2’s are your favorites
“Zibanejad knocks down Keller” write that down for posterity
Well this is when Igor needs to show he’s better than a 3M goalie…
The Rangers have won one single regulation game all season in games on which they’ve been outscored in the second period. One in OT as well.
Record when losing the third period. 2-12-2
When they win the second period? 7-6-1
20 could have 2 but Arty Party beat him to slam dunk earlier
Lavi line blender in full effect
11-2-0 in every other game.
Do they chant “Let’s go Hock-ey” in Utah?
I wanna see Cuylle knock down Cooley
Chinese fire drill for the rest of the game
Hayton is a nice player
Even Micheletti is calling what the rangers are gonna do now. hanging in
only following via internet. and friend texted me that they’re rotating forward on 4th line. again penalties do cut down some guys time.
i fullly understand that we have some rempe fanatics here.
The fire drill started late tonight
McBain shoots wide!
Someone tell Sam what a bad pass looks like. You’d think he’d be more than familiar by now.
I can understand sitting Rempe in a game they’re losing in the last 5 mins or winning in the last 3 minutes. But that’s it.
Cuylle has been taking those shifts, Alex, in a rare instance of someone the coaching staff realizing he has been one of the most effective forwards and should get more time though they can’t wean from the Mika addiction
Dammit Shesty!
That was a perfect situation because even the guy back couldn’t have gotten to it if it was on net. 🤷🏻♂️
Missed by a hair. That’s a rare opportunity this year for Igor.