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Game Preview / Gamethread #70: Canucks vs Rangers

March 22, 2025
- Westy

CANUCKS (32-25-12) at RANGERS (33-31-6)

1 p.m. ET; NHLN, MSG, SN, TVAS

The NHL schedule maker is a fucking idiot. It had to be said. I understand the MSG is a busy building, but I have things to do. If you have the time to watch this game, why don't you play the early drinking game of Miller/Petey. Anytime the two are mentioned in the same sentence.....DRINK! Coffee might be your choice.

The Canucks are coming of a great/disappointing overtime loss in St Louis. Losing a point to the Blues is not great, but the team is battling every game and the stars are playing hard. The Rangers are in the same battle as the Canucks as they are 2 points out of a playoff spot, so expect another playoff type game. The Canucks special teams have been great in their past 10 games, but they need to win more 5vs5 battles in the final 12 games.

GAME DAY CHATTER

It really is too early for their to be any chatter. For all the number nerds, feast your tired eyes on this.

GAME DAY LINEUPS

NHL.com says that these are the lineups, but who can trust anyone associated with Bettman.

Canucks projected lineup

Nils Hoglander -- Elias Pettersson -- Brock Boeser

Jake DeBrusk -- Pius Suter -- Kiefer Sherwood

Drew O’Connor -- Teddy Blueger -- Conor Garland

Dakota Joshua -- Nils Aman -- Linus Karlsson

Quinn Hughes -- Tyler Myers

Marcus Pettersson -- Filip Hronek

Derek Forbort -- Elias Pettersson

Kevin Lankinen

Arturs Silovs

Scratched: Victor Mancini, Jonathan Lekkerimaki

Injured: Filip Chytil (upper body), Thatcher Demko (lower body), Noah Juulsen (lower body)

Rangers projected lineup

Artemi Panarin -- Vincent Trocheck -- Alexis Lafreniere

Will Cuylle -- J.T. Miller -- Mika Zibanejad

Chris Kreider -- Sam Carrick -- Jonny Brodzinski

Brennan Othmann -- Juuso Parssinen -- Matt Rempe

Carson Soucy -- Adam Fox

K'Andre Miller -- Will Borgen

Zac Jones -- Braden Schneider

Igor Shesterkin

Jonathan Quick

Scratched: Calvin de Haan, Urho Vaakanainen, Brett Berard

Injured: Adam Edstrom (lower body)

Status report

Chytil did not accompany the Canucks on their six-game road trip that started with a 4-3 overtime loss at the St. Louis Blues on Thursday; the center will miss his third straight game. ... Demko has been a full participant in the past two morning skates for Vancouver and is close to returning after not playing since Feb. 8. ... Rempe returns after being a late scratch for a 4-3 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday because of illness. … Berard, a forward, comes out of the lineup after playing 6:35 against Toronto. … The Rangers changed all four line combinations during practice Friday, including moving Zibanejad from center on the top line to wing on the second, with Trocheck moving up into that spot, and swapping Krieder and Lafreniere.

GAME DAY BATTLE HYMN

The Canucks spend the next 5 days in the New York area, so this song seems appropriate.

Go Canucks Go!

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