Rangers practice lines today:
Miller-Brassard-Zuccarello
Nash-Stepan-Megna
Kreider-Hayes-Fast
Glass-Moore-Stalberg
McDonagh-Klein
Staal-Boyle
Yandle-Girardi
Lindberg and McIlrath look like the scratches. Not really sure why Lindberg is the odd man out after he had a fairly strong game yesterday, and I would love to know what has to happen short of serious injury in order for McIlrath to get back into the lineup.
By the way, Jeff Gorton gave a very subtle hint about his plans while talking about the Etem trade on Friday. He made mention that some contract talks had already begun with Keith Yandle's agent. Now Yandle is a steal right now thanks to the Yotes holding half his salary, but we're looking at probably 6m+ to sign him outright. The ONLY way that could be remotely possible for Gorton to do is if one of Marc Staal or Dan Girardi were to be shipped out as a cap dump. Both are hard sells because of their contracts, and of course they both have varying degrees of trade protection, so it wouldn't be easy to do. We'll see how serious Gorton actually is about trying to keep Yandle around by seeing how aggressively he tries to sell Staal and Girardi on the market.