Category: 2022 New York Rangers Playoffs

6:45 PM: Louis Domingue said on ESPN that he expects to start tomorrow.

6:25 PM: Mike Sullivan said that both Rickard Rakell and Casey DeSmith are day-to-day.

Gerard Gallant met with the media on Wednesday and said (NYR):

• What is the mindset today, “move on, get ready for the next one. It was a battle last night and we come out the short end of the stick, but it’s one game so gotta move on, it’s no big deal. We would have loved to won it, but we gotta battle back and win the next one.”

Gerard Gallant met with the media following the loss in Game 1 and said (NYR, MSG):

• On the game, “great game, great game with two team. I thought the first 25-minutes we were real good and dominated that part of the game and then they come back in the second and played really well after that too. It was one of those games and, obviously, three overtime periods, it’s tough to lose like that, but you get back on the horse and ready for the next game.”

First Period:

• Adam Fox (1) (Power Play) Assists: Chris Kreider (1), Mika Zibanejad (1)

Second Period:

• Andrew Copp (1) Assists: Jacob Trouba (1), Ryan Strome (1)
• Jake Guentzel (1) Assists: Sidney Crosby (1), Bryan Rust (1)
• Jake Guentzel (2) Assists: Sidney Crosby (2), Bryan Rust (2)
• Chris Kreider (1) (Shorthanded) Assists: Mika Zibanejad (2)
• Bryan Rust (1) (Power Play) Assists: Kris Letang (1), Evgeni Malkin (1)

Third Period:

Overtime:

Double OT:

Triple OT:

• Evgeni Malkin (1) Assists: Kasperi Kapanen (1), John Marino (1)

7PM: Nemeth is in the lineup.

6:31 PM: Reaves will play and Dryden Hunt will be scratched. (MSG)

Justin Braun and Patrik Nemeth are both taking warmups. (MSG)

6 PM: Gerard Gallant met with the media prior to Game 1 and said (NYR):

• Reaves or Hunt, “….um (smile) might be neither, you don’t know. (laugh) We’re going to have one extra forward in warmup, put it that way. And one extra D.”

Gerard Gallant spoke after practice today and said (NYR):

• What is the plan around Sidney Crosby, “Sidney is from my neck of the woods in the Maritimes and we all know what kind of player he is, but if we’re going to worry about Sidney then we’re going to have a tough time. Sidney is going to be a great player and do his thing, but they have a good team over there and there is a lot more than Sidney Crosby. We don’t look at one player and identify that, maybe we’ll look at their line and identify that as a really important line. They are a good team and I want us to keep playing the way the New York Rangers play. We got to worry about our team more than the other team. We got to think what we’re going to do more than the other team. When we start worrying about the other team, what they’re going to do to us then you’re standing behind the eight ball and you’re hesitating on the ice. We got to play our game. That is worry about mostly, us playing our game to the top level that we play, with good pace and the way we play our game.”

2:40PM: Gerard Gallant spoke after the morning skate and said (NYR):

• Are Panarin and Copp ready to go, “Yep, well, I mean, they had a great practice and no issues. They are official as anybody else out there.”
• On Ryan Lindgren’s status, “He’s fine, a maintenance day, he’ll be out there tomorrow.”