Yesterday’s Game of the Day between Columbus and Chicago ended in a 4-1 loss for the Jackets, making their record 0-6-0.
Chicago waited to score until half the game was over, with Artem Anisimov firing his second of the year after an assist from Artemi Panarin at the 15:35 mark of the second. A little over a minute later, Teuvo Teravainen scored the game-winner, setting the score at 2-0 going into the third. Marian Hossa began the third period scoring at the 7:48 mark, followed almost 10 minutes later by Jack Johnson, his first of the season
No, not that Jack Johnson.
The final goal of the game was an empty-netter, scored at the 18:33 mark by Patrick Kane.
Corey Crawford earns a win to set his record at 2-2 by stopping 22 of 23 shots faced (95.7%), while Curtis McElhinney earns his first loss on the season after blocking only 26 of 29 (89.7%).
The DtFR Game of the Day series now stands at a 6-5 advantage for the home squad.
Today’s schedule includes five games, spaced throughout the day. The first puck is dropped at 1 p.m. eastern in Madison Square Garden when the Rangers host New Jersey. The other afternoon game begins at 3 p.m. eastern with St. Louis visiting Winnipeg. The evening games begin at 8 p.m. eastern when Minnesota visits Anaheim, followed an hour later by Edmonton at Vancouver. The final game of the night begins at 10 p.m. eastern when Colorado visits Los Angeles.
60% of the games today involve division rivals, of which today’s Game of the Day is one, but that is not my main incentive for choosing this fixture – more special is the return of John Moore to Manhattan.
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The defender played 125 games of his 233 game career with the Blueshirts (53.6%), the most of any of the four teams he’s played for. He showed up at the Garden after being traded to the Rangers from Columbus at the 2012-’13 trade deadline, scoring a goal in his first game. After arriving, he notched five assists and that goal before the end of the season, earning a +9 Corsi rating.
During his entire tenure in the Big Apple, he claimed 21 assists and six goals (all even-strength, and two of which were game-winners) and earned a +23 Corsi rating during the regular season.
His last appearance for the Blueshirts in the Stanley Cup playoffs occurred during the 2013-’14 season as he was traded to Arizona before the deadline in the 2014-’15 season. In those playoffs, he earned a +2 Corsi rating (seventh on team) with two assists (tied for 17th on team).
So far, Moore nor the 0-3-0 Devils have had quite the start they would have hoped for, as he has a -2 Corsi rating in two games played, due in part to an arm injury sustained in the second game of the season.
Count on the Rangers spoiling Moore’s return with a victory at the Garden.
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