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Kjell Samuelson for trivia

Other than Colorado the Rangers should win the rest of their remaining games. No reason not to get on a roll to close out the season. Philly, Colorado, Arizona, Pittsburgh, NJ, Detroit, Montreal, Isles, Philly, Isles and Ottawa.

They aren’t sitting any of the top players until the standings become clearer. Games are too important now to just rest someone for the sake of it. There’s definitely a big difference between playing the Flyers, Wings or Caps then playing the Lightning. Rangers final regular season game is 4/15 against Ottawa and the playoffs are starting 4/22. More than likely the top players aren’t playing the last game. Gives them a week to rest and get ready for playoffs.

Looks like the Caps are going to over take the Flyers. If so I much rather finish in first in the conference and play the Flyers than play either the Lightning or Caps. Resting players is great but having an easier first round opponent is more important in my opinion.

We will see the smallest defensive pairing in possibly league history now with Jones and Fox as the top pair. Interested to see how Jones handles it

Unless they get a little distance between themselves and Carolina the sitting rotation is probably just Brodzinski, Rempe and Cuylle. I think Goodrow could be added to it at some point

If I can read stat muse correctly they are 9 for the last 28 power plays in the last 10 games. Thats 32%. Power play isn’t broken.

Most of the teams in the league would rather see Lafraniere on the first power play unit over Kreider. Kreider is most useful on the power play. It’s where he thrives. Taking him off the first unit would be a huge mistake. I wouldn’t mess with the first power play unit but if I had to it would be Zibanejad that would move off the first unit. The second unit I would be interested in seeing Rempe parking in front of the goalie instead of having Kakko out there.

Isn’t it Panarin, Shesterkin and Kreider?

Have to say I’m liking Zac Jones more than Gustafsson lately

They need something to give them so life. They look dead

I didn’t notice they didn’t have the cap hit at 87.5M. Just assumed they did. Makes sense now.

Cuylle out. Brodzinski in?

Big break playing Florida when Barkov is out.

Was playing around on capfriendly today and I couldn’t come up with a way to sign Roslovic and Wennberg plus re-sign Kakko, Lindgren and Schneider even with removing Goodrow and Chytil’s cap hit without taking on cap in return for them.

If he doesn't get at least 5 games there's something really wrong with this league. I would say 10 games, but you never know.

So that's one loss without Lindgren. Think they went 1-1 in the other 2 games he missed.

Robertson is complete trash. Does nothing well. When I saw him play this year he handled the puck like a grenade.

Rempe will be back. Brodzinski can never seem to play well for more than 2 or 3 games in a row.

Was trying to find the Rangers record without Lindgren but I couldn't find it anywhere.

Hellebuyck plays well against the Rangers. 2-0-1 in 3 games with a 1.63 goals against average and .958 save percentage since 22-23.

Who's Trouba? Seriously though, they are going to need him and Lindgren come playoff time.

Better news than expected. He’s going to be needed in the playoffs

I forgot to add Trochek to the list.

Quick has had a great season but the award is for extra effort not for comeback player or most improved player. Vesey, Lindgren and even Cuylle I think give more of an extra effort. It's hard to measure effort level of a goalie though.