Overview
- The New Jersey Devils host the New York Rangers at Prudential Center tonight, Thursday, Oct. 15, with regional telecasts on MSG and streaming on DAZN.
- Igor Shesterkin is out for the season with a lower-body injury, leaving Dylan Garand as New York’s primary netminder after strong early performances.
- Garand has produced an exceptional start to the season with a .951 save percentage and a 1.15 goals-against average through his appearances, and he has won the two games he started since Shesterkin’s injury.
- New Jersey is expected to start Nico Daws in goal while managing illness and scratches that include Luke Evangelista plus other players listed on the team’s injury/scratch report.
- The matchup pits a stingy Rangers defense that has allowed roughly 1.75 goals per game against a Devils team (3-3-0) that needs more regulation wins to improve its divisional standing and will rely on Jack Hughes’s history of success versus New York and the Rangers’ hot scorer Alexis Lafrenière for key matchups.