Just the facts
- When: Tonight, 7 PM
- Where: TD Garden – Boston, MA
- How to follow: NESN, 98.5 The Sports Hub
- Opposing perspective: Blueshirt Banter
Know your enemy
- 21-25-6, 48PTS, last in the Metropolitan Division
- Artemi Panarin: 19G-37A-56PTS; Mika Zibanejad: 21G-27A-48PTS; J.T. Miller: 13G-19A-32PTS
- Jonathan Quick: 3-11-2, 3.20 GAA, .885 save percentage
Game notes
- The Bruins are in snowy New York City on this fine Monday to face the New York Rangers, who are at the bottom of the Metropolitan Division after a disastrous first half of the season.
- That disastrous first half featured, among other things, a 10-2 shellacking by the Bruins and another open later to Rangers fans talking about an impending retool. Good times.
- Jonathan Quick has been shouldering the load in the absence of Igor Shesterkin, who was injured earlier this month. It…hasn’t gone well for Quick, who has lost his last 12 starts (and only two of those losses were beyond regulation). Yikes.
- Speaking of losses, the Rangers have lost three games in a row and eight of their last nine. I don’t mean to pile on the Blueshirts, so I guess we could just leave it at “things have not been going well across the board.”
- Sorry, last one: the Rangers have been bad at home this season, sitting at just 5-13-4 at Madison Square Garden.
- Spencer Martin started the Rangers’ last game, a 3-1 loss to the San Jose Sharks on Friday.
- This is the last match-up of the season between these two teams, as aside from the aforementioned 10-2 game, the Rangers beat the B’s 6-2 back in November.
- The Rangers are celebrating their centennial season this year, and like the Bruins, they are milking it for all that they can. Tonight is one of their “eras” type celebrations, “Legendary Blueshirts,” which will be “honoring some of the best to ever play the game, some of the best individual seasons and team accomplishments in franchise history.”
- Tonight will be the first game of back-to-backs for the Bruins, who will host Nashville at TD Garden on Tuesday night.
Hope
your back isn’t too sore from all the shoveling! See ya tonight!
