Rangers at Maple Leafs, MSG, HNIC, 7 ET

November 1, 2008   ·   Derek Felix   ·   Jump to comments

The Rangers aim for their fifth straight trying to match how they began October which turned into their best ever start going 10-2-1 for a league best 21points. Well, they did play more than anyone else.

No surprise that Stephen Valiquette will be in net at Toronto facing a team he’s fared well against. My guess is Vesa Toskala will again get the call for the Leafs as Curtis Joseph has yet to start a game.

Keep a close eye on Nikolai Kumelin who is a skilled rookie and Mikhail Grabovski who was effective in the last meeting won by the Rangers 1-0 in a shootout at MSG.

No Petr Prucha again. :-\ When are they gonna just release him from jail? 1.6 million.

Tom Renney has shifted the lines a little:

Dawes-Gomez-Callahan

Voros-Dubinsky-Zherdev

Naslund-Drury-Fritsche

Sjostrom-Betts-Orr

I’ll say it again. Sjostrom is better than a fourth liner. Well, it is indeed Toskala in for the Leafs, who enter off their wild 6-5 shootout win over the Devils at The Rock. They’ve done alright. So, it could be an interesting match-up.

See ya later!