NYR News

Johnny Brodzinski was placed on waivers. (Johnston)

The lines used today at practice were (Stephenson):

• Chris Kreider, Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin
• Alexis Lafreniere, Filip Chytil, Kaapo Kakko
• Jimmy Vesey, Vincent Trocheck, Barclay Goodrow
• Sammy Blais, Jake Leschyshyn, Vitali Kravtsov/Julien Gauthier

Gerard Gallant met with the media following the loss to Boston and said (NYR, MSG):

• On the game, “I thought we played a good game for probably 50 minutes of the 60, 55 of the 60, but then we played real bad and gave up some goals that shouldn’t happen. Two of their goals shouldn’t have happened, for me, if we played our game a solid 60 minutes it’s a different game, but for 50 minutes I thought it was pretty even, both teams had a lot of scoring chances and goaltending was good at both ends. We give up them easy goals and you can’t do that and their not goaltender easy goals, they are defensive zone, odd-man rushes, stuff like that.”
• On swapping Vesey for Kravtsov on the second line and do you have the lines the way you want them,  “No, not at all. I’ve talked about our second line all year long, about playing better, harder defensively, not giving up the odd-man rushes and it continues to happen so I have to put somebody over there…and it’s not Kravy’s fault. He’s part of the line, but they got to be better than what they are. They create offense and they get good chances, but we’re not going to beat good teams if they continue the chance for them, chance for us, two for them, one for us.”

The NHL has announced that Artemi Panarin and Adam Fox have been voted to the All-Star game.

First Period:

• Pavel Zacha (8) Assists: David Krejci (25)

Second Period:

• Patrice Bergeron (17) Assists: Brad Marchand (27), Craig Smith (5)

Third Period:

• Connor Clifton (4) Assists: Brad Marchand (28), David Krejci (26)
• Ben Harpur (1) Assists: Alexis Lafreniere (14), Braden Schneider (6)

1/19/23: Kreider is in tonight, Blais is out and Shesterkin is in net. (NYR)

1/18/23 | 11AM: The lines being used at Rangers practice today are (Brooks):

• Chris Kreider, Mika Zibanejad, Kaapo Kakko
• Artemi Panarin, Vincent Trocheck, Vitali Kravtsov
• Alexis Lafreniere, Filip Chytil, Barclay Goodrow
• Sammy Blais, Jake Leschyshyn, Jimmy Vesey/Jonny Brodzinski

Julien Gauthier was also skating. (Brooks)

Gerard Gallant met with the media following the win over Columbus and said (MSG):

• On bouncing back, “yea, it was good. The first two periods were pretty dominant and I loved the way we played. They get that goal early in the third and it puts a little scare into, but we played well and competed real hard tonight, so I like the win, for sure.”
• On Halak, “He made some key saves in the third period when it was 3-1. That is big for our club, I think that it’s five wins in a row for him, or something like that, so he’s played well.”