With injured Ryan McDonagh and Dan Girardi not expected to play in Tuesday’s Game 3 — and perhaps not in Thursday’s Game 4 — of the best-of-seven series against the Penguins at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are supplementing their defense, and perhaps their power play.
Raphael Diaz, the 30-year-old Swiss veteran who played 15 games with the team in 2013-14, and 37 in Hartford this season, will practice with the club on Monday. At the very least, Diaz will give coach Alain Vigneault and his staff a healthy seventh blueliner who has played for four NHL teams and has 125 regular-season and 12 playoff games under his belt.