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New York Rangers<\/a> (6-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New Jersey Devils<\/a> (3-3, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n Newark, New Jersey; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The New York Rangers visit the New Jersey Devils after Alexis Lafreniere’s<\/a> two-goal game against the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Rangers’ 4-1 win.<\/p>\n New Jersey has a 3-3 record overall and a 1-1-0 record in Metropolitan Division games. The Devils have given up 22 goals while scoring 16 for a -6 scoring differential.<\/p>\n New York is 1-1-0 against the Metropolitan Division and 6-2 overall. The Rangers have a 4-1-0 record when scoring a power-play goal.<\/p>\n The teams meet Thursday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Devils: Nick Bjugstad: out (pectoral), Luke Evangelista: day to day (illness), Seamus Casey: out (knee), Connor Brown: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n Rangers: Joseph Veleno<\/a>: out (lower-body), Igor Shesterkin<\/a>: out for season (lower body), Joonas Korpisalo: out (lower-body), Aidan Thompson<\/a>: out (undisclosed), Adam Sykora<\/a>: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press New York Rangers (6-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New Jersey Devils (3-3, in the Metropolitan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[4506,23431,304,56683,5,2273,16688,285,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36],"class_list":["post-686488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-rangers","tag-adam-sykora","tag-aidan-thompson","tag-alexis-lafreniere","tag-event_preview","tag-hockey","tag-igor-shesterkin","tag-joseph-veleno","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkrangers","tag-nhl","tag-rangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117438343007130535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686488","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=686488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}