Boston Bruins @ New York Rangers Preview
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The Blueshirts scored four goals -including three on the power play - in monday's 5-3 comeback win over Columbus at the Garden. Mika Zibanejad had a career-best three assists and Michael Grabner chipped in with two goals. Kevin Shattenkirk, Pavel Buchnevich and Chris Kreider all had third period power play goals, with Buchnevich's holding up to be the game-winner.
With the off day on Tuesday, coach Alain Vigneault has not announced his starter for tonight. Henrik Lunqvist has been in goal for all four games during this current winning streak and improved to 6-4-2 on the year.
Boo Nieves was a game time decision Monday but ultimately was kept out of the lineup with an illness for the second consecutive game. An update on his status should be released soon.
Tonight's matchup is the first of three meetings between two original six squads, and the first two at the garden.
The Bruins are coming off a 5-3 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Monday night, and are 2-1 in its last three games.
But Boston comes to New York with a long list of injuries, with leading scoring Brad Marchand joining that prior to Monday's contest against Minnesota with an upper body injury. He'll be unavailable for tonight's game against the Rangers. David Krejci, David Backes, Ryan Spooner and Adam McQuaid are also out of the lineup, while goaltender Tuukka Rask spent time on IR earlier this year.
Players to Watch:
Zibanejad has been everything the Rangers could have wanted heading into this season and more. The 24 year old has been red-hot as of late with points in six of his last seven games, with 11 points in that span.
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