Urho Vaakanainen returns to Rangers’ lineup to face ex-team
ANAHEIM — Perhaps it was the house cooking.
Perhaps it was a distinct measure of metrics coming from head coach Peter Laviolette.
Regardless, Urho Vaakanainen, who had been a wholesome scratch the earlier three video games, was reinstalled within the lineup for Friday night time’s 5-4 extra time loss to the Geese, the workforce from which he was dealt to New York in the Dec. 6 Jacob Trouba change.
He was on for 13:59 of ice time.
Vaakanainen, bumped from the lineup by Carson Soucy, lined up beside Braden Schneider on the third pair that had been a staple main as much as the commerce deadline.
Thus, Zac Jones was scratched for the primary time since Feb. 25 off a 14-game run through which the 23-year-old lefty was on for six objectives for and 7 in opposition to with a 51.05 anticipated objectives share that led Blueshirts defensemen over that span.
Jones, who quarterbacked the second energy play with none real impression, picked up three assists over this 14-game stretch.
Laviolette went with Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Brett Berard on Sam Carrick’s wings on the fourth line whereas scratching Juuso Parssinen.
Berard had been scratched the earlier two video games whereas Carrick missed Tuesday’s 3-1 defeat in LA celebrating the beginning of his son again house.
Aube-Kubel, acquired on the deadline in change for Erik Brannstrom in a minor league take care of Buffalo, made his Blueshirts debut in LA, getting 5:39 of ice in 10 shifts whereas credited with two hits.
Matt Rempe, after all, is sidelined “week-to-week,” per the Rangers, after struggling an upper-body damage in opposition to the Kings, doubtless in his second-period struggle with Tanner Jeannot.
Igor Shesterkin made his career-high ninth consecutive begin, the Russian having gone 3-4-2 over that span.
Jonathan Fast, who has not began— or been in a recreation —since a 7-3 defeat to Columbus on the Backyard on March 9, is prone to be within the internet for Saturday’s match in San Jose.
This marked Shesterkin’s fifty fifth begin and look this season, three shy of his private bests established in 2022-23.
