First Period:

• Jacob Peterson (1) Unassisted

Second Period:

• Radek Faksa (1) (Power Play) Assists: Ryan Suter (1), Miro Heiskanen (1)
• Adam Fox (1) (Shorthanded) Assists: Ryan Lindgren (1), Artemi Panarin (1)
• Chris Kreider (2) Assists: Mika Zibanejad (1), K’Andre Miller (1)

Third Period:

Overtime:

• Miro Heiskanen (1) Assists: Jamie Benn (1)

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Nils Lundkvist will make his NHL debut tonight and Julien Gauthier will play in the Rangers home opener. (NYR)

Jarred Tinordi will be scratched.

Sammy Blais is OUT and listed as day to day with a lower body injury. (Stephenson)

Igor Shesterkin is in net.

Gerard Gallant spoke after the loss to Washington and said (NYR):

• On the game, “Two different games. I thought the first 30-33 minutes were real good, even though we were behind 2-0. Couple of power play goals that you know they scored that you know they got two bounces on both of them, you know, it hit off of Zibanejad’s stick, the second one and the first one was Trouba tried to clear it to the corner but put it behind his goalie so, but I thought we played a hell of a first 33 minutes and after that we weren’t too good.”

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First Period:

• T.J. Oshie (1) (Power Play) Assists: Alex Ovechkin (1), Evgeny Kuznetsov (1)

Second Period:

• Justin Schultz (1) (Power Play) Assists: Alex Ovechkin (2), Evgeny Kuznetsov (2)
• Hendrix Lapierre (1) Assists: Conor Sheary (1), T.J. Oshie (1)

Third Period:

• Alex Ovechkin (1) (Power Play) Assists: Anthony Mantha (1), John Carlson (1)
• Chris Kreider (1) (Power Play) Assists: Adam Fox (1), Ryan Strome (1)
• Alex Ovechkin (2) (Shorthanded) Assists: Evgeny Kuznetsov (3), Trevor van Riemsdyk (1)

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7:02 PM: Alex Georgiev will start for the Rangers.

3:01 PM: Dryden Hunt and Jarred Tinordi will play tonight against the Capitals. (Stephenson)

Nils Lundkvist, Libor Hajek and Julien Gauthier will be scratched. (Stephenson)

The lines expected to be used tonight are:

• Alexis Lafreniere, Mika Zibanejad, Chris Kreider
• Artemi Panarin, Ryan Strome, Kaapo Kakko
• Barclay Goodrow, Filip Chytil, Dryden Hunt
• Sammy Blais, Kevin Rooney, Ryan Reaves
  • Ryan Lindgren, Adam Fox
  • K’Andre Miller, Jacob Trouba
  • Jarred Tinordi, Patrik Nemeth

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