The Blueshirts have made the trek across the border into Canada ahead of tonight’s contest as they get set to begin a home and home with Shane Pinto, Claude Giroux, and the rest of the Ottawa Senators. Although Ottawa didn’t enter the season with the Stanley Cup aspirations the Rangers had, they’re in a similar position of currently under performing expectations as New York is.
Expected to contend for a playoff spot in the highly competitive Atlantic Division as they begin their ascent out of a rebuild, the Senators currently find themselves languishing in the basement of their division.