It may only be the second week of November, but the Blueshirts are set to wrap up their first season series of the 2023-24 campaign tonight. After falling to the Minnesota Wild in a shootout at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul this past Saturday, the scene has shifted to Madison Square Garden for tonight’s clash.
Saturday’s contest was the first in what will be a long stretch of the Rangers playing shorthanded as Adam Fox, Filip Chytil, Barclay Goodrow, and Igor Shesterkin were all unavailable. Goodrow will be back in the lineup tonight, but the team’s recalling of both Louis Domingue and Dylan Garand from AHL Hartford suggests Jonathan Quick may be unable to play tonight, pushing New York down to its third string goaltender.