New York Rangers (11-8-1, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Vancouver Canucks (3-16-1, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Vancouver, British Columbia; Friday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Rangers visit the Vancouver Canucks after Mika Zibanejad’s two-goal game against the Calgary Flames in the Rangers’ 3-1 win.<\/p>\n
Vancouver is 3-16-1 overall and 1-8-0 at home. The Canucks have a -34 scoring differential, with 56 total goals scored and 90 conceded.<\/p>\n
New York is 11-8-1 overall and 2-6-1 on the road. The Rangers have a 3-6-0 record in games they serve more penalty minutes than their opponents.<\/p>\n
Friday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season. The Rangers won 6-2 in the last meeting. Will Cuylle led the Rangers with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Liam Ohgren has scored six goals with three assists for the Canucks. Brock Boeser has five goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Adam Fox has two goals and 20 assists for the Rangers. Tye Kartye has scored five goals with three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Canucks: 1-9-0, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.3 assists, 4.3 penalties and 11.9 penalty minutes while giving up 4.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Rangers: 5-5-0, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.4 assists, 3.5 penalties and 8.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Canucks: Thatcher Demko: out (hip), Tom Willander: day to day (lower body), Mackenzie MacEachern: out (undisclosed), Filip Chytil: out (upper body).<\/p>\n
Rangers: Sean Durzi: out (undisclosed), Joseph Veleno: out (lower-body), Igor Shesterkin: out for season (lower body), Aidan Thompson: out (undisclosed), Alberts Smits: out (upper body), Adam Sykora: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Rangers (11-8-1, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Vancouver Canucks (3-16-1, in the Pacific Division) Vancouver, British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,5,4,292,43,893,27,5313],"class_list":["post-709655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver-canucks","tag-canucks","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-sports","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouvercanucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117603033627112236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709655","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=709655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}