NY Rangers (36-32-7) vs NJ Devils (40-29-7)
• 05 Apr 2025 12:30 EDT
• Prudential Center, Newark
• TV: ABC, ESPN+, SN, TVAS •
The clouds are aligned against the Rangers today (its a day game so the stars are off) – 12:30 start, national broadcast, attempting a third win in a row… all that is missing is an award ceremony 😉 Be that as it may, the Derbils, hopefully sleepy from a night of partying, await for the Rangers to try to continue their playoff push.
Entering the match the NYR are 5-4-1 of the last 10, with recent wins over MIN in OT and SJS. The Devils also come in 5-4-1, taking a home/away from MIN, one game by OT SO. After a strong start to the season, the Devils have slowed down considerably.
Line-up wise, Shesterkin (2.86 GAA, 0.905 SV%) is expected in net for the Rangers. Markstrom (2.48 GAA, 0.901 SV%) looks set for NJ. The Rangers are expected to use the same line-up as the prior game, however Zibanejad missed praccy yesterday due to illness. If he is not able to go, it is possible that Parssinen will play back in on the third line. Another option may be Rempe, who practiced, returning and Berard moving up to the third. Laviolette seemed non-commital on Rempe’s status so the former option seems more likely if necessary. For the Devils, Cody Glass is expected back in after an UBI and Casey will replace Nemec on the third pair.
The refs are sleeping in this morning and won’t be revealed until game time.
Keys to a Ranger victory: Go out there and take that hill!
On this date in history: In 1970, on the final day of the regular season, the NYR beat the Red Wings 9-5 and, coupled with a Montreal loss to the Blackhawks in which they scored 4 fewer goals than the Rangers that day, gave the NYR the final playoff berth.
Speculative NYR lineup:
Forwards
1st line ⊳ Panarin ⋄ Trocheck ⋄ Othmann
2nd line ⊳ Perreault ⋄ Miller ⋄ Lafrenière
3rd line ⊳ Cuylle ⋄ Zibanejad ⋄ Brodzinski
4th line ⊳ Kreider ⋄ Carrick ⋄ Berard
Defensemen
1st pair ⊳ Sousy ⋄ Fox
2nd pair ⊳ Miller ⋄ Borgen
3rd pair ⊳ Vaakanainen ⋄ Schneider
Goalies
Starter ⊳ Shesterkin
Backup ⊳ Quick
Scratched: D deHaan D Jones F Parssinen F Aube-Kubel F Rempe
Injured: Edström (LBI)
In the Cooler: none
Long-term IR: Kaliyev (UBI/DFS)
258 responses to “It’s Go Time!”
Game time already?
“Go out there and take that hill!”
How about Running Up That Hill?
Hoping Perimeterjad is not in the lineup!
Zibanejad with the hair trick.
93 is Useless.
The epitome of what is wrong w this roster
Press Box his arse
And….Lavy starts him….cant fix stupid
Is this game only on national networks?
I’M Sick….of 93.
Yes ABC and Espn
Already a blind backhand pass to the middle in the defensive zone. Same result as always.
Three devils players flanked one ranger player going after the puck when it was put in the rangers zone behind the net. Smfh
Another underwhelming shift from Chris Glider
I’m sure this will be the usual rivalry game where only one team is aware of the rivalry and it ain’t our team.
No urgency on defense in front of the net.
Ranger defense at its best
Key to a Custer Victory –
“Over the hill boys, I think they’re friendly Indians!”
How’s that not a penalty
Guess the refs are still sleeping as noted
Othman tackled
It’s on the zone.
It’s out of the zone.
Watch meeka..2 strides ..glide…3 strides..glide opportunity to make a hit ..peel away….change
I absolutely loathe the pass from the defensive zone to one forward to head into the offensive zone with the puck against four or five opponents.. smfh
F’Andre already at his peak.
K’Poke the turnover machine
Perrault hitting more than 20.& 93
1 shot so far. It’s going to be one of THOSE games?
Newark…what a Sewer
Big shiny building in the middle of a dump
NYR are Bill Murray in Stripes..we’re pacing ourselves
Emily Kaplan actually looks cleaned up today.
What’s Martin Brodouche weigh now? 260?
Thank the Lord for Shesterkin
Shaping up to be another 5-0 shutout.
NYR are Alfred E. Neuman – What, me worry?
1 shot in 12 minutes.
On pace for a 5 shot game.
Feel the Urgency.
Ev
Rangers hockey we play dumb and everyone knows it.
Kandre came to play
Emily K’ Aplan petite n sweet
Pray that Per-O doesn’t get catch the La- Failure virus.
It’s not that they’re slow or have no skill. They play with no brains and absolutely no clear plan in mind. Maybe Lavy will give them one for the first time this season.
It’s early yet boys.
They didn’t even credit them with the wraparound shot
What a contrast between the way 8 heads into a corner for the puck vs our yoga instructor 93
Do I look like a Soucy to you?
Laffy has to put that in
A SHOT! That was a shot, wasn’t it?
I’m not some Pom-pom waving high school floozie
Pionk is a UFA this off-season…
A DO-OVER !
The Soucy Chef standin up!
They keep shorting them on shots.
Hit em with yer purse Meeka
It would be nice if they stopped watching as a devil player with the puck waltzes right into the zone untouched, not even a poke check.
Why do they think that we want to watch an interview, that we can just listen to, in a box the same size as the game?! Wtf is wrong with them?
Got lucky there. All for rangers around the net were puck watching and didn’t look back at the devil players even once.
Luke Hughes pounding Rangers…wake up!
Get fhe puck behind them and pound them!!
Wow. Both Millers with a stupid blind pass to the middle of the defensive zone.
How can Drury resign 79?
He is..to use Patrick Roy’s term..GOD AWFUL…say it Lavatory so 79 can take time off to reflect also
Another K’areless turnover. Get rid of him.
If that was their good period, this is going to be a looooong game.
Cant wait for Slewban to Skewer 79..but he won’t he thinks he is a budding star…
The only good thing about this lost pathetic season is Ovechkin won’t break TGO’s record against the Rangers.
The plan is to lull the Derbils to sleep and score four goals on six shots in the third
April 18
Get Busy Drury
79 Gone
93 Gone
20 Gone
13 Gone
So if your name is Miller you are supposed to pass to you opponent. I guess the stupidity is contagious.
They really are playing like a team who is just waiting for Montreal to eliminate them. So then they can truly stop putting in any effort. Oh well.
When is the NFL draft?
Somehow the giveaways are 6 to 3.
The devil’s with the 6. Wtf?
I’m not sure which one of those 4 is worse. 93 come on down!
I feel bad for Perreault. To quote Mr. Spock. “Constant exposure results in a certain amount of contamination.”
Has Fox’s name even been mentioned in the 1st?
I heard The Soucy Chef mentioned
So Carrick is part of the Canadian maple syrup cartel!
If we’re lucky, some stupid GM will offer sheet F’Andre
Lavatory a master motivator?
You can’t motivate mutts.
You have to.leave them in their cage.(93..79)
Who’s Fox?
Shots at the end of the first 10-5
Shots at the beginning of the second 7-4
Wtf?!
I woke up before noon for this?
Lafrenière is never ready for any passes. What a dope
Busto can’t get out of his own way.
La-fail to line 4?
BENCH 93
Perimeterjad a soft rink turn master
If it’s supposed to be a 1-3-1 formation, why are there always two rangers in the offensive zone when the opponent has the puck there?
Ranger powerless play.
Great delayed penalty pass by Zibanebad. Just stellar.
93 is Such a Panzy…ridiculous effort..play soccer or tennis Meeka
And Lavatory puts him.out to start PP
I know he’s scored the only pp goal, but get that dumbass off the pp1
Zibanebad and his CRAPPY FRIGGIN passes
How many days since last PP goal?
One of these days the rangers will get the best chance on their own powerplay instead of the penalty killers.
Busto on his butto.
Keep putting 93 out there on the PP lavatory..you’ll have plenty of time.ton2nd guests that April 18th when they can your arse
8 days since the Rangers last power play goal.
And they lost that game. So maybe we don’t want them to get one.
And 79 also…what are ya thinking Lavatory?
I feel like I should have something better to do.
Apparently Carol does not like 93
Thankfully McDonagh and Ferraro shut up for a minute
No announcers is an improvement.
Best part of broadcast
93 speaks softly and carries a tiny stick..what a waste of a roster spot and cap space.
Rangers dump and chase is dump and chase the devils back to our defensive zone.
Avoids body contact at all costs..
That’s our NMC Perimeterjad…waive him if you have to Drury just get him off this roster asap..addition by subtraction
Neither pp unit is doing anything. Time to spread the (lacking) wealth and even out the two units. Put Zika with Kreider on the second and bring in Perreault to the first unit. If anything, well get some looks that we usually don’t get because Perreault is creative and hasn’t been indoctrinated yet.
Key Andre The Giant is a stinky D man
See how easy it is?!
And there it is. One shot, three milliseconds into their pp
Another special teams loss=Another loss
And E3 knows stinky
Don’t shoot Don’t shoot!
I’m sure our upcoming pp will look just like theirs did.
Bunch of scrubs. No fight in these puss bags. Don’t even bother coming out for the 3rd- do us all the favor.
Let’s run the same old clown show out there.
Our speciality..try to pass.the puck into the Devils net
That’s one guy who can’t produce on the pp off the first unit.
Where was Meeka during that scrum ..what a panty he is a total poosie
Lol!
LEARN HOW TO GET A F@#$ING SHOT THROUGH!!!!
I hate this f-cking team!!!
Way to go 93..SIT HIM LAVY
Game over
Fox flop fail
I have to go worm the cat.
We’re gonna be the only team in NHL history to lead the league in shorthanded goals scored and shorthanded goals against.
Good thing the coaching staff has been working on the specialty units, imagine how bad it would be if they didn’t 🤣
Holla Not even touched.
Lavy should’ve used his timeout. He’s f@#$ing useless too
Walk in this way
The Soucy Chef with a Giveaway Roll
I f@#$ing hate Soucy
Looks like the first period was our good one
93 bails on taking a hit
EV thankfully we’ve only given up 6 SHG including today. Still games left though…
They can’t even stop pucks at the point. This team is doing absolutely nothing today. Another shutout for the only team in this game that remembers that this is a rivalry.
Keep throwing the same mutts out there Lavy …
Beezle, I’ve been trying to find the shorthanded stats but I haven’t been able to locate them. I was trying to figure out which games they gave them up in.
Panther game about to start. I might watch that instead of the third period.
Drury did this. Don’t ever forget that. He’s the idiot that handed away big time long term contracts to Fox and Zibanejad like they were candy, forcing them to run in back after they knew full well they couldn’t get past the Panthers. F-ck him, f-ck our inept coach, and f-ck this roster of cream pies.
Great job taking away the pass by Fox too
93.with the lame.window dressing effort on that shorty by Devils….
Boys I know it’s hard to accept but this really the best thing for this Cotton Candy organization. Missing the playoffs is the only chance of fixing this mess from top to bottom.
STOP THE F@#$ING BACKHANDED BLIND F@#$ING PASSES ALREADY!!
Splendid period?
This game is their death knell
100% SPE
If I’m correct, we haven’t had a single odd-man rush in this game, right? Not even a 3 on 2.
I would offer Ottawa any combo of Shesty/Fox/Panarin for Brady T.
Of course they will say No but Ask them.
Then turn to Byfield..
Then back to Ottawa for Stutzle
I dislike the devils, tremendously. My brain knows St Pete is right but the heart says gtf out there and crush these guys though it obviously won’t happen.
Drury isn’t fixing this team and the dark ages are upon us – take small wins where you can get them.
Subban = clown. Would rather watch Biz.
We aren’t getting anything of value back for Chris Glider.
We have to get 93 to waive his NMC then get what you can.
Offer 79 to Vancouver.
I’m curious does Dolan even watch these turd shows?
Rangers are exactly 13th right now. 🤦🏼♂️
Dolan too busy banning peoplew.from MSG and.kissing Knicks arse’s
Trade Lafreniere for a Zero bar.
Kreider appeared so smug. He & his cuddle partner are doing a great job. It’s a shame; all this talent. Shesterkin should return part of the bank robbery.
Trade Miller for a pylon.
Trade Fox for a rabbit. Rabbits are faster.
Trade Zibanejad for a pair of yoga pants.
St Pete for GM
Wish we had a Monty Hall type GM …or Neil Smith…Let’s Make A Deal
If Montreal wins later, which i don’t see how they don’t, this game and the one I have to make an actual appearance at, will probably be the last games I watch of this POS group this season.
Let’s be positive guys! I’m positive this team sucks and there’s zero chance of making the playoffs at this point- am I doing this right?
EV don’t forget, you have to do that post game 😱
This is one of the “easier” games we have left this season. They’re done. Finally.
Craig should be happy that there’ll be no more teases of respectability from hereon out.
Is it possible this game gets to OT, asking for a friend.?
They have the Derbils right where they want them. Time for the Mika 3rd period hatty!
We’ll see, Beezle. I might be too busy booing and yelling at these losers to actually pay attention to the game. Lol
That’s a flat no, Eli
Beezle, I’m sure you can figure out who disliked your post about the recap. 😁
Still passing to the other team at the point in their own zone. It has to be on purpose at this point.
James Geau
I can’t figure out whether to laugh, cry, or throw up.
A what practice?
All three in that order, Eli
Even without the shorty, the devils had the better chances on the rangers pp. It’s afriggintrocious.
Trocheck alone has 3 “clearing” passes that have gone straight to an opponent.
At least we’ll have the knowledge that Ilya Sorokin gave up Ovechkin’s tiebreaking goal.
The team that passes 9 out of 10 times has the worst passing anywhere.
This team is the definition of stupid!
This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end, my only friend, the end.
No safety or surprise then end.
Pull Twerkin
There is zero structure left in this teams game
And this is without their best forward and best defenseman.
One of the kids just threw up all over. And it still looks better than the Rangers chances…
79 always plays like he left his brain in his locker stall. If they re sign him than Dreary is more clueless than we already is.
EV per Mollie: Second shorthanded goal conceded in as many games for the Blueshirts, as well as the third in their last four.
So that’s half of them
Miles a penalty. Only victory of the day.
We even started losing faceoffs.
Every time they have the pick in the offensive zone all they do is try to force passes and force shots. This team has absolutely zero hockey IQ left.
*Killed a penalty
Yeah, they mentioned that in the broadcast. I figure if this is the last ranger game I’m going to watch, I’m going to seat it into my memory by listening to these two tools.
My PP unit: Schneider, Brodude, Coolio, Carrick, Berard.
Laviolette’s presser
“We hit as many logos as we could.”
At least they let personally play with talented players from the getgo, unlike the two most talented draft picks (on paper) that the rangers have ever had.
Best thing 93 did on that last shift was change.
Completely Useless Completely Heartless
Completely Gutless
None of these guys in front of the net are ever ready for the pass
Nice pass by Tatar.
Tatar Sauce.
Ear Wax moves quicker than Perimeterjad
So far we’ve been outscored 14-4 this season by the devils.
I wish Rempe was playing. There is absolutely zero grit, physicality, and balls in a ranger jersey today.
15-4
Which team is fighting to get in playoffs?
Humiliating
Plenty of time. They’ll have all summer.
We’re getting goalified once again.
How does Laviolette and Drury still have jobs?
Like a monkey (violating) a football.
16-4
Heartless Team.
Ferraro is such a tool. Markstrom didn’t face anything difficult there.
Laviolette and Dreary needs to be canned right at the final buzzer of the season…..or now would be fine too.
This team or whatever you call it has zero intestinal fortitude….no heart…gutless underachieving and overpaid.
Why do we care so much when this core doesn’t?
so now that the Rangers have formed a new cover band The NY Pretenders, who gets to play Chrissie Hynde?
Tragic number is now 11
Let’s go Habs!
This is disgusting.
I cannot wait for this putrid excuse of a hockey season – and the Rangers’ season in particular—to come to an unceremonious conclusion.
Put a fork in them. They’re DONE.
Absolutely embarrassing.
Yes, an empty netter.
But 4 goals on 16 shots. 3 goals on 15 shots with a goalie in net.
We have been paid back with interest for that Vancouver game by now.
I’m convinced that this team has lowest collective hockey IQ in the league. They seriously make the dumbest passes, take the dumbest shots, and defend in the dumbest possible way. This needs to be a FULL teardown from the GM on down. Anything else is unacceptable.
What did they possibly think that pulling the goalie would accomplish? I’m surprised it took NJ that long to score.
Zero Heart/Pride .
Time for Dolan to step up and take notice.
Hard to win when you don’t score.
Does Glider still get a little huggy bear action today?
Go Panthers. At least if they win again, I can actually enjoy it this time. I was still pissed about the conference finals.
Great Body Language 93
And, go Blues.
Glider, Zib, LaFailure, Miller = Rangers Frozen Four
Huggy Twins need to be Aborted.