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Steven Kingsman\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Carolina Hurricanes (35-15\u20136, 76 pts) at New York Rangers (22-28-6, 50 pts)<\/p>\n
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Date: Wednesday, February 5
Time: 7:00 pm EST
TV: MSG, FDSNSO
Radio: ESPN 880 AM<\/p>\n
Carolina Hurricanes News & Notes:<\/p>\n
The Carolina Hurricanes visit the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night. These teams have gone in opposite directions since the start of this season, with the Hurricanes sitting atop the Metro and the Rangers in last place. Carolina is averaging 3.41 goals per game while allowing 2.86 goals per game.<\/p>\n
New York Rangers News & Notes:<\/p>\n
The New York Rangers are set to play in their final matchup ahead of the Olympic break against the Carolina Hurricanes. The Rangers have traded Artemi Panarin to the LA Kings, a start of a rebuild for the team. New York is averaging 2.66 goals per game and are allowing 3.18 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Carolina Hurricanes Projected Lines:<\/p>\n
Svechnikov \u2013 Aho \u2013 Jarvis
Hall \u2013 Stankoven \u2013 Blake
Ehlers \u2013 Staal \u2013 Martinook
Carrier \u2013 Jankowski \u2013 Kotkaniemi<\/p>\n
Slavin \u2013 Chatfield
Miller \u2013 Walker
Gostisbehere \u2013 Nikishin<\/p>\n
Bussi
Andersen<\/p>\n
New York Rangers Projected Lines:<\/p>\n
Miller \u2013 Zibanejad \u2013 Perreault
Cuylle \u2013 Trocheck \u2013 Lafreniere
Brodzinski \u2013 Laba \u2013 Raddysh
Othmann \u2013 Carrick \u2013 Rempe<\/p>\n
Gavrikov \u2013 Schneider
Robertson \u2013 Borgen
Vaakanainen \u2013 Morrow<\/p>\n
Quick
Martin<\/p>\n
Players To Watch:<\/p>\n
Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n
Jordan Staal<\/a>\u00a0enters tonight\u2019s contest with four goals in his last six games, including a pair of late-game go-ahead goals that sealed two points for Carolina against the\u00a0Utah Mammoth and, most recently,\u00a0the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n New York Rangers<\/p>\n Mika Zibanejad<\/a> has recorded a point in four-straight games, and has tallied at least one point in 14 of his last 15 games<\/p>\n Injury Report:<\/p>\n Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n LW Eric Robinson<\/a> \u2013 OUT New York Rangers<\/p>\n D Adam Fox<\/a> \u2013 IR Next Game:<\/p>\n Carolina \u2013 February 26, against Tampa Bay Lightning \tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Kingsman\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Carolina Hurricanes (35-15\u20136, 76 pts) at New York Rangers (22-28-6, 50 pts)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,1284,160,3328,35,5190,5193,4,5573,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-447455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jordan-staal","10":"tag-mika-zibanejad","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-rangers","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkrangers","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-game-preview","17":"tag-rangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116019400275890915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
G Pyotr Kochetkov<\/a> \u2013 IR<\/p>\n
G Igor Shesterkin<\/a> \u2013 IR
LW Conor Sheary<\/a> \u2013 IR
C Adam Edstrom<\/a> \u2013 IR<\/p>\n
New York \u2013 January 26, against Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n