ST. LOUIS BLUES NOTES:
CURRENT INJURIES
Scott Perunovich – Shoulder (Re-evaluated in 6 months, announced on Oct. 4)
Marco Scandella – Right Hip (Re-evaluated in 6 months, announced on Sep. 20)
Logan Brown – Upper-Body (Placed on IR on Nov. 9)
2022-23 Total Man Games Lost: 90
Recent Transactions
December
3 – Recalled forward Will Bitten from the Springfield Thunderbirds (AHL)
2 – Assigned forward Jake Neighbours to the Springfield Thunderbirds (AHL)
BLUES VS. RANGERS
-This will be the first of 2 matchups between the Blues and Rangers this season (Apr. 6 in STL)
-The Blues went 1-1-0 against the Rangers last season, with both teams winning at home
-The Blues are 3-1-0 in their last 4 games against the Rangers
-The Blues are 2-2-0 in their last 4 trips to Madison Square Garden
-The Blues have scored at least 3 goals in 4 straight games against the Rangers, outscoring them 17-10 over those 4 games
-Blues’ forward Pavel Buchnevich will visit the Rangers for the 2nd time since being traded to the Blues (first game back in New York was last season on Mar. 2)
-Buchnevich played in parts of 5 seasons for the Rangers, posting 195 points (79g, 116a) in 301 games with New York
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
12/6 – at NY Islanders
12/8 – vs. Winnipeg
12/11 – vs. Colorado
12/12 – vs. Nashville
12/15 – at Edmonton
FAST STARTS ARE KEY FOR BLUES
-The Blues are 6-2-0 this season when leading after the first period and are 7-0-0 when leading after 2 periods
-The Blues are also 9-4-0 this season when scoring first
-Their 9 wins when scoring first share 10th in the NHL (1. Boston/Vegas, 14)
DEFENSEMEN CONTRIBUTING OFFENSE FOR BLUES
-The Blues defensemen have accounted for 16.2% of the Blues’ goals this season, which ranks 11th in the NHL (1. NYI, 23.2%)
-The Blues are 7-1-0 this season when a defenseman scores
-Their 11 goals share the 14th most by a defensive unit in the NHL (1. NYI, 19)
-The Blues’ defense has contributed 5 power play goals this season, which shares the most in the NHL with Nashville and Florida
-They have also contributed 4 game-winning goals, which shares 3rd in the NHL (1. Boston/Columbus, 5)
-Torey Krug leads Blues d-men with 5 goals, which also shares 10th in the NHL among all defensemen (1. Karlsson, 11)
-Torey Krug’s 4 power play goals share the lead on the Blues (Buchnevich) and share 1st in the NHL among all defensemen with Dahlin, Makar, & Josi
-Justin Faulk’s 2 game-winning goals share the 4th most among all defensemen in the NHL (1. Fox/Karlsson/Morrissey, 3)
BLUES CONSISTENT UNDER ARMSTRONG
-Since Doug Armstrong took over the reigns as the Blues General Manager in 2010-11, the Blues have posted a 532-306-99 record
-Their 532 wins since then rank 5th in the NHL (1. PIT, 555)
-The Blues have made the postseason 10 out of the 12 seasons since Armstrong became GM, 1 of 5 teams in the NHL to clinch 10 or more playoff berths since 2010-11 (PIT, 12/WSH, 11/BOS & NSH, 10)
-Armstrong is also just 1 of 2 GMs to clinch 10 or more playoff berths since 2010-11 (David Poile, 10)
-Since 2010-11, the Blues rank 8th with 2.91 goals per game (1. VGK, 3.21) and rank 3rd in the NHL with 2.59 goals against per game (1. BOS, 2.45)
-The Blues also have the 3rd best penalty kill (82.8%) under Armstrong (1. BOS, 83.3%), and have the 5th best power play (20.8%) in the league (1. WSH, 21.5%)
BINNINGTON CHASING BLUES HISTORY
-Jordan Binnington, who has 99 career wins in 181 GP, will become the 6th goaltender in franchise history to reach 100 wins as a Blue with his next win (Liut/Allen/Joseph/Fuhr/Elliott)
-Binnington is on pace to become the 3rd fastest goaltender to reach 100 wins with the Blues
-Binnington also shares 7th on the Blues all-time franchise list with 11 shutouts, just 1 of 8 goaltenders in franchise history to record at least 11 shutouts
-Since Nov. 10, Binnington has 6 wins, which shares 1st in the NHL (Saros, Jarry, Vasilevskiy)
Fastest to 100 career wins with the Blues:
- Brian Elliott – 175 GP
- Jake Allen – 176 GP
- Curtis Joseph – 209 GP
BLUES STAY STRONG UNDER BERUBE
-Since taking over on Nov. 18, 2018, Berube has led the Blues to a 167-93-36 record (370 points)
-The Blues 370 points since Nov. 21, 2018 (Berube’s first game), rank 10th in the NHL (1. TBL, 407), while their 167 wins also rank 10th (1. TBL, 193)
-Their 3.23 goals per game share 7th in the NHL under Berube (1. TBL, 3.54)
-The Blues have posted a mark of 2.86 goals against per game under Berube, which ranks 10th in the NHL (1. BOS, 2.49)
-The Blues also have the 3rd best power play in the NHL at 23.9% since Berube became head coach (1. EDM, 26.7%)
-Berube is 4 games shy of becoming just the 4th Head Coach in franchise history to coach 300 games with the club (Quenneville – 593 / Hitchcock – 413 / B. Sutter – 320)
-Last season on Dec. 29 vs. EDM, Berube became the 7th different coach in NHL history to win 200 games and play in at least 1,000 career games
Wins as Coach / Games Played
Craig Berube – 242 / 1,054
Randy Carlyle – 475 / 1,055
Bob Pulford – 363 / 1,079
Craig MacTavish – 301 / 1,093
Red Kelly – 278 / 1,316
Brent Sutter – 215 / 1,111
Larry Robinson – 209 / 1,384
BUCHNEVICH STEPPING UP FOR BLUES
-Pavel Buchnevich ranks 2nd on the Blues with 8 goals (1. Kyrou, 9) and shares 2nd with 19 points (1. Thomas, 21)
-Buchnevich has 13 points in his last 9 games (7g, 6a) and also has points in back-to-back games (2g, 1a)
-Buchnevich also has 17 points in his last 13 games (7g, 10a), including 5 multi-point games in that span, after posting just 2 points (1g, 1a) in his first 6 games of the season
-Buchnevich has recorded at least 1 point in 10 of his last 13 games
-Since Nov. 10, Buchnevich shares 5th in the NHL with 17 points (7g, 10a) (1. Robertson, 22), and shares 13th in the NHL with 10 assists (1. Karlsson/Gaudreau, 14)
-Buchnevich shares 1st on the Blues this season with 4 power play goals (Krug)
-Buchnevich recorded 4 points (2g, 2a) on Nov. 19 vs. Anaheim, the 2nd 4-point game of his career (also: Mar. 17, 2021 w/ NYR: 2g, 2a vs. PHI)
-Buchnevich set career-highs with 30 goals, 46 assists, and 76 points last season
THE TARASENK-SHOW
-Vladimir Tarasenko has points in back-to-back games (1g, 2a)
-He also has 5 points in his last 4 games (2g, 3a), including 2 multi-point games
-Tarasenko ranks 2nd on the Blues with 12 assists (1. Thomas, 17) and ranks 4th on the Blues with 18 points (1. Thomas, 21)
-He also shares 1st on the Blues with 13 even-strength points (Thomas & Schenn) (6g, 7a)
-On Thursday vs. Carolina, Tarasenko recorded the 283rd and 284th assists of his career, moving him past Garry Unger for 8th on the Blues all-time franchise list (7. Demitra, 289)
-Tarasenko also ranks 5th on the Blues all-time franchise list in goals (258) and points (542)
BRAYDEN IS SCHENN-SATIONAL
-Brayden Schenn ranks 5th on the Blues with 17 points this season (6g, 11a) (1. Thomas, 21)
-He also shares 4th on the Blues with 6 goals (1. Kyrou, 9) and shares 3rd with 11 assists (1. Thomas, 16) -Schenn recorded 10 points in the first 10 games of the season, matching the 2nd best start of his career in the first 10 games of the season (10 points (6g, 4a) in 2020-21 in first 10 games / 11 points, (8g, 3a) in 2019-20 in first 10 games)
-Schenn has 24 power play goals since the start of the 2019-20 season, which ranks 2nd among all Blues in that span (1. Perron, 26)
-Schenn dressed in his 800th career NHL game on Saturday at Pittsburgh
KYROU FINDING HIS SCORING TOUCH
-Jordan Kyrou scored twice, including his first career overtime winner, on Nov. 26 at Florida
-Kyrou posted a career-long 8-game point streak (5g, 8a), from Nov. 14-26, including a career-long 6 game assist streak from Nov. 16-25 (2g, 8a)
-Nov. 26 at Florida was also Kyrou’s 10th career multi-goal game, which is the 3rd most among all Blues since his debut in 2018-19 (Perron – 14 / Tarasenko – 13)
-Kyrou leads the Blues with 9 goals and ranks 3rd on the team with 3 power play goals (1. Buchnevich/Krug, 4)
-Kyrou also ranks 3rd on the Blues with 7 power play points (1. Buchnevich/Thomas, 8)
-Since Nov. 10, Kyrou shares 16th in the NHL with 15 points (1. Robertson, 22)
-Kyrou now has 16 points (6g, 10a) in his last 14 games after recording just 3 points (3g) in his first 9 games of the season
THOMAS SETTING THE PACE
-Robert Thomas leads the Blues with 17 assists and 21 points this season
-Thomas has an assist in back-to-back games (2a)
-In his last 12 games, Thomas has recorded 14 points (2g, 12a), recording at least 1 point in 9 of those 12 games
-Thomas has also recorded 4 multi-point games in his last 12 games
-He also leads the Blues with 7 power play assists and shares 1st on the Blues with 8 power play points (Buchnevich)
-Since Nov. 10, Thomas shares 3rd in the NHL with 12 assists (1. Karlsson/Gaudreau, 14)
-Since Nov. 10, Thomas shares 2nd in the NHL with 7 power play assists (1. Dahlin, 8) and shares 9th in the NHL with 7 power play points (1. Kucherov, 11)
THE CAPTAIN IS COMING ALIVE
-Ryan O’Reilly has 3 points in his last 4 games (2g, 1a)
-O’Reilly has recorded 10 points (6g, 4a) in his last 14 games after just recording 1 point (1g) in his first 10 games of the season
-O’Reilly scored the Blues’ first shorthanded goal of the season on Nov. 16 at Chicago, the 11th of his career
-Nov. 12 at Vegas was O’Reilly’s 300th game as a Blue
NEW YORK RANGERS NOTES:
LAST GAME
Chicago Blackhawks 5, New York Rangers 2 – December 3, 2022 – Madison Square Garden
NYR Goals: M. Zibanejad (13), C. Kreider (12)
CHI Goals: R. Johnson (2), P. Kane (4), M. Domi (8, 9), T. Raddysh (7)
NYR Goalie: J. Halak (L – 16/20)
CHI Goalie: P. Mrazek (W – 21/22), A. Soderblom (ND – 5/6)
NYR Shots: 28
CHI Shots: 21
NYR PP: 1/4
NYR PK: 1/4
Game Summary | Event Summary
RECAP/NOTES: The Rangers fell to the Blackhawks on Saturday night at MSG, 5-2, in game two of the three-game homestand. New York scored one goal in the second and one in the third but couldn’t outlast Chicago. One of the Rangers’ goal came on the power play, their 18th PPG of the season.
RANGERS RUNDOWN
- The New York Rangers complete the three-game homestand with their first meeting of the season against the St. Louis Blues on Monday night at Madison Square Garden (7:00 PM ET – TV: MSG Network/NHL Network – Radio: ESPN 98.7 FM).
- The Rangers have earned at least one point in nine of their last 14 games against the Blues, dating back to the start of the 2014-15 season (7-5-2 record). At home against the Blues since 2014-15, New York has a 4-2-1 record for nine points.
- Artemi Panarin has tallied a point in five of his past six games against St. Louis (1G-9A), and he has posted a multi-point game in three of the six contests. He has recorded a point in nine of his last 12 games against the Blues (3G-14A). -Mika Zibanejad has tallied a point in seven of the last 11 games (5G-4A) and in 10 of 15 career games against the Blues. He has also tallied four goals in the last eight games and five goals in the last 10 games against the Blues.
- Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad and Adam Fox all notched their 27th point of the season on Saturday. The Rangers are the only team in the NHL with three players with 27 or more points. With Fox and Panarin having 21 assists each, the Blueshirts and Oilers are the only two teams with multiple players with 21 or more helpers.
- The Rangers rank seventh in the NHL in shots per game (33.8) and sixth in fewest shots allowed per game (29.2). New York has registered 35 or more shots in 14 games, tied for the third most occurrences in the NHL.
- New York ranks third in the NHL in hits with 759.
- The Rangers defensemen group has collected 57 points, tied for the seventh most in the NHL. New York’s 47 assists by defensemen are tied for the fifth most in the league.
UPCOMING GAMES (ALL TIMES ET)
DATE/TIME OPPONENT/LOCATION TV RADIO
Dec. 7/10:00 PM Vegas/T-Mobile Arena TNT ESPN 1050 AM
Dec. 9/9:00 PM Colorado/Ball Arena MSG 2 ESPN 1050 AM
Dec. 12/7:00 PM New Jersey/MSG MSG Network/NHLN ESPN 98.7 FM
Dec. 15/7:00 PM Toronto/MSG MSG Network ESPN 98.7 FM
Dec. 17/7:00 PM Philadelphia/Wells Fargo Center MSG Network ESPN 98.7 FM
LAST FIVE GAMES
DATE OPPONENT RESULT
Dec. 3 Chicago L, 5-2
Dec. 2 Ottawa OTL, 3-2
Nov. 30 at Ottawa W, 3-1
Nov. 28 New Jersey L, 5-3
Nov. 26 Edmonton L, 4-3
INJURIES (24 MGL)
PLAYER INJURY DATES MISSED CONS. GAMES MISSED
Filip Chytil Lower Body Dec. 3 1
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
December 4 – Jonny Brodzinski re-assigned to Hartford.
December 3 – Recalled Ben Harpur and Jonny Brodzinski from Hartford. Re-assigned Zac Jones to Hartford.
November 23 – Acquired fifth round pick in 2025 NHL Draft in exchange for Ryan Reaves
ALL-TIME RECORD 82-47-16-2 (182 PTS)
2022-23 0-0-0
2021-22 1-1-0
NYR HOME 49-15-6-1 (105 PTS)
NYR AWAY 33-32-10-1 (77 PTS)
LAST FIVE MEETINGS 2-3-0
LEADING SCORER(S) – CURRENT RANGERS IN CAREER G: Kreider/Zibanejad (6) – A: Panarin (15) – Pts: Panarin (20)
LEADING SCORER(S) – ALL-TIME IN GAMES W/NYR G: Gilbert (20) – A: Tkaczuk (36) – Pts: Tkaczuk (50)
2022-23 SEASON SERIES
December 5 at MSG 7:00 PM ET
April 6 at Enterprise Center 8:00 PM ET
TEAM NOTES
FOX ON FIRE
Adam Fox has points in four of his last five games (4A), six of his last eight games (1G-6A), and 13 of his last 15 games (4G-14A). Fox has recorded at least one point in 19 of 26 games this year and is currently riding a eight-game home point streak (2G-7A). Fox and Cale Makar are the only NHL players averaging 18:00+ of even strength ice time, 4:00+ of power play ice time, and 2:00+ of shorthanded ice time this season.
Fox has skated over 20:00 minutes in every game this season, over 25 minutes in 14 contests and his season-high was 30:04 against the Devils on Nov. 28. Fox’s latest assist on the power play was his 77th career point on the man advantage – tying with Jim Nielson for the 11th most among defensemen in Rangers history. On the season, Fox has six goals and 21 assists for 27 points, ranking among the best defensemen in multiple categories.
FOX AMONG NHL D-MEN
RANKS THIS SEASON
CATEGORY D-MEN RANK
Goals T-5th (6)
Assists 3rd (21)
Points 3rd (27)
Game-Winning Goals T-1st (3)
Total TOI 3rd (657:25)
Takeaways T-6th (19)
MIKA’S MISSION
Mika Zibanejad has a team-leading 13 goals this season and eight on the power play. Zibanejad’s eight PPGs are tied for the third most in the NHL. He has points in eight of his last 10 games (3G-6A) and in 15 of his last 18 contests (8G-11A). Zibanejad is one of eight players in the NHL to have 10+ goals, 5+ PPGs, and 100+ shots on goal. Zibanejad leads the NHL with 45 power play shots.
PANARIN PUTTING UP POINTS
Artemi Panarin has points in five of his last six games (1G-5A), 16 points in his last 18 games (2G-14A) and 28 points (6G-22A) in 26 games this season.. Panarin is riding a seven-game home point streak (1G-8A). Panarin posted his sixth multi-point game (2A) of the season and 164th of his career. Since 2015-16, his 164 multi-point games are tied for the sixth most in the NHL. Since 2019-20, his 81 multi-point games are the fifth most in the league. Panarin is three points from recording his 600th career point. Since he broke into the NHL in 2015-16, his 579 points are the fourth most in the league.
MOST POINTS SINCE 2015-16
PLAYER POINTS
Connor McDavid 744
Leon Draisaitl 649
Patrick Kane 643
Artemi Panarin 597
KREIDING TO MAKE HISTORY
Chris Kreider scored his 241st goal of his career on Saturday against Chicago, surpassing Brian Leetch and taking sole possession of the ninth most goals in Rangers history. Kreider became the all-time leading goal scorer among American-born Rangers. Kreider has points in 15 of his last 18 games (10G- 8A) and seven points (5G-2A) in his last seven games. Kreider has points in nine-straight home games (5G-4A), the longest stretch of his career. The last longest such streak by a Ranger was Artemi Panarin’s 10-game home point streak during the 2019-20 season.
MOST GOALS IN RANGERS HISTORY
RANK PLAYER GOALS
6th Camille Henry 256
7th Mark Messier 250
8th Steve Vickers 246
9th Chris Kreider 241
Kreider has 36 career game-winning goals, tied him with Adam Graves for the seventh most in franchise history. In addition, Kreider has 87 career go-ahead goals, the sixth most in Rangers history behind only Rod Gilbert (131), Jean Ratelle (96), Camille Henry (90), Vic Hadfield (90) and Adam Graves (89).
BLUESHIRT BULLETS
- Vincent Trocheck is one of only three NHL players who have registered 15+ points and 65+ hits this season (along with Jason Zucker, Alex Ovechkin). In 23 of 26 games this season, Trocheck has had either 1+ points, 3+ hits, or a 50.0%+ faceoff win percentage; he has hit two of the three categories in 12 of the 26 games, and he hit all three categories in the same game on Nov. 8 vs. NYI.
- Jacob Trouba has 88 hits and 62 blocked shots. He is the only player in the NHL with both 85+ hits and 60+ blocked shots. Trouba ranks sixth in the NHL in hits and fourth in blocked shots.
- Sammy Blais ranks second in the NHL (min. 20 games played) in hits per 60 (21.34).
SPECIAL TEAMS
- The Rangers are tied for fifth in the NHL in penalty differential (+10)
