5 Things to Know: Rangers at Bruins

• Tonight the Rangers travel to Boston for an Original Six matchup for the third time this season.
• New York is 6-3-1 in the last 10 games.
• The Blueshirts are 21-8-0 on the road in 2016-17.
• The Rangers currently own the first Wild Card in the Eastern Conference.

• Brady Skjei scored the lone Blueshirt goal against Washington Tuesday.
•  The 22-year-old from Lakeville, Minnesota has three goals and 27 assists for 30 points in 62 games this season.
• Skjei has three points in his past five games and has an assist in two meetings with the Bruins.

“They made us go back for pucks all night. It really wore on us. It negated a lot of our team’s speed. We had to use a lot of energy in our zone at times.”

–Rangers’ defenseman Ryan McDonagh after falling 4-1 to the Washington Capitals.

• Bruins forward Dominic Moore played parts of five seasons with the Rangers (2003-2006; 2013-2016).
• The Rangers have three Massachusetts natives on their roster: Kevin Hayes (Dorchester), Chris Kreider (Boxford), and Jimmy Vesey (North Reading). All three played college hockey in Massachusetts (Hayes and Kreider played at Boston College, and Vesey played at Harvard University).

Ryan McDonagh on teaming up with his former college teammate, Brendan Smith.