Game day: Jets at Rangers, Oct. 13

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ABOUT THE RANGERS

The Rangers are 3-0 to start the season, their best opening since posting the same record in 2008-09 and the sixth time they have done it in franchise history (also 1927-28, 1938-39, 1983-84 and 1989-90. The club record for most consecutive wins to start a regular season is five, set in ’83-84 and matched in ’08-09.

Swedish rookie Oscar Lindberg, named the NHL’s Second Star of the Week, has scored four goals in the Rangers first three games and, according to Elias Sports Bureau, is the first freshman in club history to accomplish that feat. Lindberg, acquired from Phoenix for Ethan Werek in May of 2011, is also the first Rangers player to score a goal in each of the first three games of his rookie season since Steven King scored in four straight in 1992-93 (Dec. 6-13).

The lineups could change, but it looks like the Rangers are activating Dylan McIlrath, the Winnipeg product drafted in the first round in 2010, and former Jet Tanner Glass while sitting Boyle and Jesper Fast.

Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist has posted a .943 save percentage to start the season in an attempt to shed his reputation as a slow starter and meet a challenge served up to him by coach Alain Vigneault in their 1-on-1 meeting at the end of last season.

“That stayed with me the entire summer and coming back to camp,” Lundqvist told NHL.com after Saturday’s 5-2 victory over Columbus.

Lundqvist had a sub-.900 save percentage in his first three starts four times in the previous five seasons and was just .815 to start last year.

 

WINNIPEG JETS

31 Ondrej Pavelec
34 Michael Hutchinson

2 Adam Pardy
4 Paul Postma
5 Mark Stuart
6 Alex Burmistrov
7 Ben Chiarot
8 Jacob Trouba
9 Andrew Copp
12 Drew Stafford
14 Anthony Peluso
16 Andrew Ladd
17 Adam Lowry
18 Bryan Little
19 Nic Petan
22 Chris Thorburn
26 Blake Wheeler
27 Nikolaj Ehlers
33 Dustin Byfuglien
39 Toby Enstrom
55 Mark Scheifele
57 Tyler Myers
85 Mathieu Perreault

 

NEW YORK RANGERS

30 Henrik Lundqvist
32 Antti Raanta

5 Dan Girardi
6 Dylan McIlrath
8 Kevin Klein
10 J.T. Miller
13 Kevin Hayes
15 Tanner Glass
16 Derick Brassard
18 Mar Staal
19 Jesper Fast
20 Chris Kreider
21 Derek Stepan
22 Dan Boyle
24 Oscar Lindberg
25 Viktor Stalberg
26 Jarret Stoll
27 Ryan McDonagh
28 Dominic Moore
36 Mats Zuccarello
61 Rick Nash
93 Keith Yandle
96 Emerson Etem

-lineups subject to change

— Ed Tait