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NHL Preview: New York Rangers (31-14-8) at Vancouver Canucks (21-29-4)

NEW YORK RANGERS NOTES:

LAST GAME
New York Rangers 6, Carolina Hurricanes 2 – February 11, 2023 – PNC Arena
NYR Goals: M. Zibanejad (27), A. Panarin (13, 14, 15, 16), K. Kakko (11)
CAR Goals: T. Teravainen (6), J. Kotkaniemi (8)
NYR Goalie: J. Halak (W – 27/29)
CAR Goalie: F. Andersen (L – 13/18)
NYR Shots: 19
CAR Shots: 29
NYR PP: 1/1
NYR PK: 2/2

RECAP/NOTES: The Rangers began a four-game road trip with a triumphant win against the first place Carolina Hurricanes on the road, backed by four goals in the third period. In the win, Artemi Panarin recorded his first career four-goal game and fourth career five-point night while Jaroslav Halak won his seventh-straight game.

RANGERS RUNDOWN

  • The New York Rangers head out for the first of three road games in Western Canada when they play the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena (10:00 PM ET – TV: MSGSN – Radio: ESPN 1050 AM). The Blueshirts will play five of their next six games away from MSG.
  • The Blueshirts have won five games in a row and have earned a point in seven-straight games (6-0-1). The Rangers have now earned points in eight of their last nine games (7-1-1) and 15 of their last 17 games (12-2-3). Dating back to November 30, Rangers have points in 25 of their 30 contests (21-5-4).
  • This is the ninth different season in franchise history when the Rangers have had 20+ wins in a 27-game span: 1939-40, 1941-42, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1993-94, 2011-12, 2014-15, 2022-23.
  • If the Rangers garner a point tonight, it would mark their first eight-game point streak since the 2015-16 season and first road eight-game point streak since the 2019-20 campaign.
  • On the road, the Rangers have earned a point in seven-straight games (4-0-3) and 11 of their last 12 contests (8-1-3). New York has points in 18 of its last 21 games (14-3-4) away from home.
  • Against the West, New York is 17-5-3 and is 8-2-2 against Pacific Division teams.
  • The Rangers defensemen group has collected 134 points, the second-most in the NHL and 106 assists, also the second most. 27.9 percent of all Rangers points this season have been contributed to a defenseman.
  • New Yorkā€™s 69 third period goals rank second for third in the NHL and their plus-19 third period goal differential ranks fourth.

LAST FIVE GAMES
DATE OPPONENT RESULT
Feb. 11 at Carolina W, 6-2
Feb. 10 Seattle W, 6-3
Feb. 8 Vancouver W, 4-3
Feb. 6 Calgary OTW, 5-4
Jan. 27 Vegas W, 4-1

RECENT TRANSACTIONS
February 10 – Libor Hajek re-assigned to Hartford

February 9 – Vladimir Tarasenko and defenseman Niko Mikkola acquired from the St. Louis Blues in exchange for a conditional first-round pick in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2024 NHL Entry Draft, Sammy Blais, and Hunter Skinner.

February 9 – Will Cuylle re-assigned to Hartford

ALL-TIME RECORD 82-36-8-2 (174 PTS)
2022-23 1-0-0
2021-22 0-1-1
NYR HOME 44-16-5-1 (94 PTS)
NYR AWAY 38-20-3-1 (80 PTS)
LAST FIVE MEETINGS 1-3-1
LEADING SCORER(S) – CURRENT RANGERS IN CAREER G: Tarasenko (9) – A: Tarasenko (16) – Pts: Tarasenko (25)
LEADING SCORER(S) – ALL-TIME IN GAMES W/NYR G: Gilbert (18) – A: Greschner (29) – Pts: Greschner (44)

TEAM NOTES
ROAD RANKS
The Blueshirts head into tonightā€™s game as one of the best road teams in the entire NHL, winning four of their last six road games and earning a point in 19 of 24 road games overall (15-5-4). If the Rangers win tonight, it would mark the fourth time in franchise history the club has won at least 16 of their first 25 road games.

VANCOUVER CANUCKS NOTES:

TV: Sportsnet Pacific, MSGSN
Radio: Sportsnet 650

MATCH-UP INFO
ā€¢ Tonight marks the second and final game between the Canucks and Rangers this season: Feb. 8 (4-3 L @ NYR) and Feb. 15 (home).

ā€¢ Vancouver is 38-79-8-3 all-time against New York, including a 21-37-3-1 record at home.

ā€¢ The Canucks are 5-3-2 in their last 10 games against the Rangers, including 4-1-0 in their last five.

ā€¢ Anthony Beauvillier leads all active Canucks skaters in career points against the Rangers with 23 (13-10-27 in 28 GP).

ā€¢ J.T. Miller has 10 points (4-6-10) in 10 career games against the Rangers.

ā€¢ Quinn Hughes has five points (0-5-5) in five career games against the Rangers.

ā€¢ Conor Garland has five points (3-2-5) in six career games against the Rangers.

ā€¢ Elias Pettersson has five points (2-3-5) in seven career games against the Rangers.

ā€¢ Collin Delia is 0-1-0 in one game vs New York in his career.

QUICK NUMBERS
ā€¢ Quinn Hughes has 19 points (4-15-19) in his last 15 games.

ā€¢ Elias Pettersson has 12 points (7-5-12) in his last 10 games.

ā€¢ Brock Boeser has seven points (1-6-7) in his last six games.

ā€¢ J.T. Miller has 11 points (2-9-11) in his last 12 games.

ā€¢ Conor Garland has seven points (2-5-7) in his last nine games.

LAST MEETING ā€“ FEB. 8/23: VAN 3 at NYR 4
Conor Garland got the Canucks on the board off a Quinn Hughes pass with his 10th goal of the season at 17:36 in the first period to cut the deficit to one goalā€¦Vasily Podkolzin scored his first goal of the season at 16:06 in the second period to bring the Canucks back within oneā€¦former New York Ranger J.T. Miller collected his 500th NHL point on the play with the lone assistā€¦Elias Pettersson beat an icing call to strike just 11 seconds after a Mika Zibanejad tally at 16:16 in the third periodā€¦Quinn Hughes picked up his second assist of the night while Brock Boeser registered the other assistā€¦Luke Schenn and Riley Stillman co-led Vancouver skaters in hits (3) while six Canucks recorded two blocksā€¦Elias Pettersson went 13-6 in the face-off circleā€¦Spencer Martin faced 21 shots.

2022.23 TEAM RANKS
VAN NYR
Goals For/Game 3.30 (12th) 3.32 (9th)
Goals Against/Game 4.02 (31st) 2.62 (4th)
Power Play % 22.8 (11th) 22.7 (12th)
Penalty Kill % 65.4 (32nd) 81.3 (9th)
Penalty Min./Game 9:22 (20th) 7:40 (4th)
*Rankings are accurate as of 11:30am PT on February 14, 2023

LAST GAME PLAYED ā€“ FEB. 13/23: VAN 1 vs DET 6
Sheldon Dries scored his seventh of the season to bring the Canucks within one 1:31 into the second periodā€¦Conor Garland and Andrei Kuzmenko picked up the assistsā€¦it was Garlandā€™s 100th career assistā€¦Philip Di Giuseppe and Elias Pettersson tied for the team lead with four shots on goalā€¦Curtis Lazar led the team with six hitsā€¦Vasily Podkolzin played in his 100th career gameā€¦Collin Delia faced 23 shots.

LAST 5 vs NEW YORK
ā€¢ Feb. 8/23: VAN 3 at NYR 4
ā€¢ Feb. 27/22: VAN 5 vs NYR 2
ā€¢ Nov. 2/21: VAN 3 at NYR 2 (OT)
ā€¢ Jan. 4/20: VAN 2 at NYR 1
ā€¢ Oct. 20/19: VAN 3 vs NYR 2

KNACK FOR THE NET
Extending his goal streak to three games with a third period tally on Feb. 11 at DET, Elias Pettersson reached the 25-goal mark for the fourth time in his young career, becoming just the third player in Canucks history to record as many 25-goal campaigns in his first five career NHL seasons, joining Stan Smyl (4) and Petri Skriko (4).

RECENT TRANSACTIONS
ā€¢ Spencer Martin placed on waivers, Feb. 13
ā€¢ Phillip Di Giuseppe, Vasily Podkolzin, and Nils Aman recalled from Abbotsford, Feb. 4

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