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5 Things to Know: Rangers at Panthers

March 7, 2017

BY: DAVID KOLB
Follow @DavidKolbMSG

NEW YORK RANGERS (42-22-2) @ FLORIDA PANTHERS (29-24-11)
Game coverage begins at 7 PM on MSG

After picking up a win in Tampa Bay last night, the Rangers continue their road trip in Sunrise against the Panthers.

1 WHERE THEY STAND

Tonight the Rangers travel to Sunrise, Florida to face the Panthers for the second time this season

New York is 5-4-1 in the last 10 games

The Blueshirts are 23-8-0 on the road in 2016-17

The Rangers currently own the first Wild Card in the Eastern Conference with 86 points

2 WHO'S HOT

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Rangers’ forward, Mika Zibanejad scored the game’s only goal in overtime of last night’s 1-0 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning

The first-year Rangers’ forward missed time this season with a leg injury, however now has nine goals and 16 assists for 25 points in 40 games

Zibanejad scored a goal on four shots in 18:38 of ice-time in the first meeting with the Panthers on Nov. 20 at The Garden

3 SAY WHAT?

“We just need to be physical, we need to have that kind of mentality that where not going to be pushed around. I think that’s how we played.”

— Rangers’ goalie, Antti Raanta after backstopping Monday’s 1-0 overtime win over Florida

4 DID YOU KNOW?

BOSTON - DECEMBER 29: Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard dives out to stop a first period scoring bid by the Bruins Reilly Smith. right, with Smith's brother Brendan, center, helping out on defense. The Boston Bruins hosted the Detroit Red Wings in a regular season NHL game at the TD Garden. (Photo by Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

New Rangers’ defenseman, Brendan Smith and Panthers forward, Reilly Smith are brothers.

5 MUST-SEE VIDEO

Watch Mika Zibanejad score last night’s game-winner in overtime, giving the Blueshirts a huge 1-0 win

According to Carp

Rangers Have Road Warrior Mentality

According to Carp

Click your heels together and repeat, “There’s no place like road, there’s no place like road …” The Rangers were in need of restoration of their identity, and a change of recent results, and the Big East basketball tournament did them an enormous favor: It chased them out of The Garden and onto the road […]

Rick Carpiniello

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Rangers Game Report

Rangers Seek Bright Outcome to Sunshine State Visit

Rangers Game Report

The Rangers face the Panthers tonight in Sunrise Florida for the second of back-to-back games in the Sunshine State. The contest will mark the second of three games against Florida and the teams will meet for the third and final time in the regular season on St. Patrick’s Day at The Garden. In the only […]

Dave Maloney

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Maven’s Ravin’

Raanta, Rangers Strike Down Lightning

Maven’s Ravin’

Rangers 1, Lightning 0 The reinforcements arrived in time to do battle and battle they did. For the Blueshirts, the beauty part was that both Hartford foot soldiers — Tanner Glass and Steven Kampfer — were part of a rejuvenated Rangers sextet in need of a fortune reversal after the Saturday night loss to Montreal. […]

Mar 7, 2017

Hockey Analytics

There’s More to Stepan Than Goals

Hockey Analytics

By Chris Boyle Follow @ChrisBoyle33 Derek Stepan is currently struggling to score. He hasn’t scored in his last 56 shots and his shooting percentage has plummeted from 10.6% (his career shooting percentage) to 7.6%. This is a perceived problem in a game like hockey where the goals are so rare. Because they happen so infrequently, […]

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