After the Blueshirts dropped their preseason opener in Boston on Sunday, they’ll look to right the ship at home tonight as they host the New York Islanders. Tonight will be the Islanders’ preseason opener, so expect another game featuring lineups littered with plenty of players destined to spend the 2023-24 campaign somewhere other than the NHL.
While the top priority in preseason for established NHLers is to remain healthy, the Rangers have already had a few players get banged up during practice. Mika Zibanejad missed Sunday’s contest with an upper body injury, and although he’s now off the injury report, Filip Chytil and Artemiy Panarin have made their way on to it with upper body and lower body injuries respectively.