Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Winnipeg Jets (12-12-4, 28 points) and New York Rangers (14-13-0, 28 points) faceoff live from Madison Square Garden in New York City in the first of two meetings this season. The game can be live streamed here. Winnipeg fans can hear all of the action by adjusting their radios to TSN 1290 while New York fans can do the same on 98.7 ESPN Radio.
Winnipeg is coming off of a loss and will hope back-to-back practices over the weekend will help them out while New York won its last time out but is 1-3-0 in its past four games at home.
Cam Talbot gets the nod over Henrik Lundqvist in net for the second straight game tonight after winning his MSG debut on Saturday where the Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks 5-2. John Tortorella returned to New York and Rangers coach Alain Vigneault led his new team to a victory over his old team Saturday afternoon.
Talbot is 6-1-0 this season with a 1.49 goals-against average and a .944 save percentage.
The Rangers got a huge lift from Chris Kreider Saturday when he notched a hat trick against his old coach. Kreider is third on the team with 16 points off of six goals and 10 assists and is behind Brad Richards (seven goals, 12 assists) and Derek Stepan (five goals, 14 assists) who each have 19 points.
"The crowd went crazy as soon as Kreider buried that first one," Talbot said after his debut at MSG Saturday, according to NHL.com "They're our seventh man. We feed off their energy."
The Jets will look to silence the crowd tonight after having an outdoor practice at New York City's Central Park on Saturday and a normal indoor practice on Sunday. The team is coming off of a tough 2-1 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers.
"It's nice to have a day like this to forget about everything for a day and just have some fun on the ice," captain Andrew Ladd said of the outdoor practice per NHL.com.
Ladd ranks third on the team with 20 points off of seven goals and 13 assists while Dustin Byfuglien is second with six tallies and 15 helpers for 21 points and Bryan Little leads the way with 12 goals and 13 assists for 25 points. Little has seven points in his past seven games.
Ondrej Pavelec has started 22 of 29 games this season for Winnipeg and is 9-10-3 with a 2.69 GAA and a .916 save percentage.
The Jets will look to bounce back from a loss while the Rangers hope to string together a few wins at home when the puck drops at Madison Square Garden tonight in New York.
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