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Rangers Gameday: News and Notes, Scouting the Blue Jackets

As the Rangers get ready for the BJ's tonight at the Garden, here is what's going on today:

Andrew Gross has a lot of info today. First off, the line combos for tonight:

Higgins-Prospal-Gaborik
Sean Avery-Artem Anisimov-P.A. Parenteau
Enver Lisin-Callahan-Ales Kotalik
Donald Brashear-Brian Boyle-Aaron Voros
Marc Staal-Dan Girardi
Michael Del Zotto-Michal Rozsival
Wade Redden-Matt Gilroy

Henrik Lundqvist will make his 5th straight start.

Meanwhile, Chris Drury skated for the third straight day and, for the first time since suffering a concussion he went through contact drills after Tortorella put his team through a non-optional morning skate (typically Tortorella prefers optional morning skates, particularly as the season progresses).

Pregame notes from the Rangers:

Marian Gaborik leads the Rangers with 11 goals and 18 points in 22 career regular season games against Columbus; Michal Rozsival leads all Ranger defensemen with five assists and six points in seven career appearences vs. the Blue Jackets.

All Time – Rangers vs. Blue Jackets
Overall: 3-5-1-0
At MSG: 1-1-1-0
At Columbus: 2-4-0-0

More after the jump..................

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Jeff Rimer's Blue Jackets blog from BlueJacket.com

Blue Jackets F Dorsett on IR after Neal boarding (AP)

For more on the Blue Jackets, check out their SBNation home at The Cannon

Blue Jackets Leading Scorer:


Rick Nash

#61 / Left Wing / Columbus Blue Jackets

6-4

218

Jun 16, 1984



G A P +/- PIM
2009 - Rick Nash 14 11 25 -7 16


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Callahan at center now?

Jesus H.

At least he kept A-AA-P together.

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by George E. Ays on Nov 23, 2009 3:06 PM EST reply actions  

callahan at center? my god haha.

maybe hell be better than higgins..

LET'S GO RANGERS!!!

by Moshe52792 on Nov 23, 2009 3:11 PM EST reply actions  

I thought Higgins played ok against Florida, he was probably the 3rd best forward on the ice behind “Prosborik”

I think Callahan said in Gross’s story that he has not played center since last year’s training camp.

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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Nov 23, 2009 3:46 PM EST up reply actions  

Cally at center!?!?

Are you kidding me he looks like he has no setup skills at all. The guy is a gritty winger who hardly carries the puck over the blueline. Seriously I hope I eat my own words and cally looks good at center but seriously now that just retarded if he does horrible I think we need Locke or grachev up here as much as indont want to say it

by klh2009 on Nov 23, 2009 3:22 PM EST via mobile reply actions  

Grachev isn’t ready, and he’s been playing wing since coming to North America last fall.
If you really want to screw him up, then by all means – bring him up to the big club and put him at center.

by dbmaven on Nov 23, 2009 4:07 PM EST up reply actions  

What good is having a prospect if we can’t screw him up?

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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Nov 23, 2009 4:15 PM EST up reply actions  

Wellllllllll…….I guess we really wouldn’t want to start any kind of NEW tradition – now would we…???

by dbmaven on Nov 23, 2009 5:33 PM EST up reply actions  

LOL!
As the Rangers get ready for the BJ’s tonight at the Garden

"It ain't over till its over"---

by FreeBradshaw on Nov 23, 2009 3:27 PM EST reply actions  

I almost used that in my headline…..maturity prevailed…..I hate when that happens

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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Nov 23, 2009 3:45 PM EST up reply actions  

Gilroy

I was just looking at the stats and noticed that Gilroy is the only Rangers dman with positive +/- of plus 4. This stat can be deceiving sometimes, but Gilroy plays a lot of minutes so I think it showes that he is doing ok on defense. I do want to see his offensive game come around though….

by MattPwrcf1 on Nov 23, 2009 4:48 PM EST reply actions  

Cally at center

why not, i would have avery there but cally’s game is all around the ice like a center if he can win face offs, i say its a good idea all he has to do is keep good positioning and dump the puck deep. why? you all say, well hes on the line with kotalik and lisin, can anyone say minus. cally is responsible and i think he relishes a line where he can captain the guys around him. Lets see if it works, what do we have to lose.
If it wouldnt screw up his development i would call up heikkenen and move gilroy to a wing, but he is still working on his d game so that would ultimately be a dumb move. please rozy start playing good enough so someone would want you by the deadline.

by louielounz1 on Nov 23, 2009 6:22 PM EST via mobile reply actions  

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by KingHenrik on Nov 23, 2009 6:22 PM EST reply actions  

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