Rangers Pregame: Lines for tonight

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Sep 24, 2009 4:00 PM EDT in Rangers News Comment 11 comments

I think Steve Zipay had these as well, but from Andrew Gross at Ranger Rants, here are the expected lines to start things off tonight:

I figured I would put this in a brand new thread, since it overshadowed poor Bobby Sanguinetti.

Offense

Christopher Higgins-Vinny Prospal-Marian Gaborik

Enver Lisin-Brandon Dubinsky-Ryan Callahan

Evgeny Grachev-Chris Drury-Ales Kotalik

Donald Brashear-Artem Anisimov-Aaron Voros

Defense

Alexei Semenov-Matt Gilroy

Wade Redden-Michal Rozsival

Michael Del Zotto-Dan Girardi

Goaltender:

Henrik Lundqvist (expected to play a full game)

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Brashear-Anisimov-Voros? Is Torts going to tie a rope around Artems waist and have him drag Brash and Voros up and down the ice? I know Torts is all about ‘tough love’ but yikes…

by ThreePingPost on Sep 24, 2009 4:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Looks like

Lisin will be dropped in favor of Avery
and Semenov will be dropped for Stall.

Overall, these lines look great.

by Sanka on Sep 24, 2009 4:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

scratch that

Lisin will stay, Grachev will probably go and Avery will play that line.

by Sanka on Sep 24, 2009 4:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Lisin will stay

Grachev will go to Hartford.

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by Laurie Carr on Sep 24, 2009 4:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Grachev to Hartford

Drop Lisin to Drury’s line, and put Avery with Dubi & Cally. You want a line with grit? there ya go.

Can we also read into this that Staal will play with Gilroy, MDZ with Girardi, R&R remain together? Of course Torts will change every thing up the moment they look flat anyway.

by 2mn8tr on Sep 24, 2009 5:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I would suggest not reading a whole lot of anything into everything.

He’s moving the parts around to get an idea of what will and what won’t work – and what has potential.

He wants to see how Arty is going to react to 4th line duty – and how he meshes with Brash/Voros.

Higgins/Prospal/Gaborik is a possibility for a regular line.

by dbmaven on Sep 24, 2009 5:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yes, I know . . .

but until the season starts I have nothing else to do. So I endlessly ponder line combinations that Torts will change in a moments notice based on who is going at the moment. How sad for me.

by 2mn8tr on Sep 24, 2009 5:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

In case it wasn’t clear – I wasn’t criticizing you (or anyone else). I’ve been doing a lot of the same thing.

I simply was giving my read on what he’s doing with tonights lineup.

So, if you’re sad – I must be right there with you.

by dbmaven on Sep 24, 2009 5:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

No worries...

It was clear. Enjoy reading your posts.

by 2mn8tr on Sep 25, 2009 9:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

:-) Thanks.

by dbmaven on Sep 25, 2009 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The Rangers have announced that Matt Gilroy has been selected as winner of the 2009 Lars-Erik Sjoberg Award.

by mleetch352 on Sep 24, 2009 6:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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