Game 3: Anaheim At New York

Anaheim (1-1-0) at New York (2-1-0)

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Anaheim Outlook

The Ducks continue their road trip tonight against the New York Rangers. Anaheim started out the trip with a 7-1 blow out loss to the Islanders on Saturday night. Head coach Dallas Eakins shuffled most of the forward lines and will likely make more adjustments for tonight’s game to get the Ducks hopefully on track.

Rocco Grimaldi signed a one year deal with the San Diego Gulls over the weekend. He joins the Anaheim organization at the AHL level, but he may have a chance to play in the NHL at some point this season.

Troy Terry leads the Ducks in scoring with 3 goals.

Roster Moves:

Noah Warren was reassigned to his junior team in Canada.

Injury News:

Jakob Silfverberg was scratched tonight since he battling the flu.

Urho Vaakanainen suffered an upper-body injury when he slammed into the boards during a preseason game against the San Jose Sharks. It’s unknown when he will be able to return.

Sam Carrick had hip surgery during the off season. He will start skating this month and hopefully could return by the end of the October.

John Moore is also on the IR with an undisclosed injury.

Projected Lineup:

Offense:
Adam Henrique – Trevor Zegras –  Troy Terry
Mason McTavish – Ryan Strome – Frank Vatrano
Max Jones – Isac Lundestrom – Pavol Regenda
Max Comtois – Derek Grant – Brett Leason

Defense:
Cam Fowler – John Klingberg
Dmitry Kulikov – Jamie Drysdale
Colton White – Kevin Shattenkirk

In Net:
John Gibson 1-1-0 GAA 5.35 SV% .880 (Confirmed)

New York Outlook 

The Rangers have won two of their first three games so far this season. New York beat Tampa Bay in their season home opener by a 3-1 score. The Rangers then took it to the Wild knocking them out 7-3. They then came back down to Earth against the Jets losing 4-1 in Winnipeg.

Mika Zibanejad leads the Rangers in scoring with 4 total points( 2 G + 2 A).

Projected Lineup

Offense
Chris Kreider – Mika Zibanejad – Kaapo Kakko
Artemi Panarin – Vincent Trocheck – Alexis Lafreniere
Jimmy Vesey – Filip Chytil – Samuel Blais
Dryden Hunt – Barclay Goodrow – Ryan Reaves

Defense
Ryan Lindgren – Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller – Jacob Trouba
Libor Hajek – Braden Schneider

In Net
Igor Shesterkin 2-0-0 GAA 2.02 SV% .935 (Confirmed)

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October 17th, 2022