The Caps visit the Rangers in an absolutely huge, pivotal, supremely important, must-win battle for first place. Or, it’s November and, while it’s always nice to bank two points against a division rival, there’s hardly anything resembling a must-win this time of year. In fact, teams only face a must-win in the playoffs when they have already lost three games in a series. Or in the regular season if they are facing mathematical elimination from the playoffs. Nothing else is a must-win.

But anyways, it’s the Rangers, it’s MSG in NYC, and both teams are off to hot starts. So, this should be a fun one. You can find the action at 7 PM on CSN.

Team Record Possession PDO Power Play Penalty Kill Washington Capitals 8-2-0 55.5% 101.4 24.1% 87.1% New York Rangers 7-2-2 49.3% 105.0 14.3% 87.9%

Projected Lineup

Per main dude Vogs

Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Oshie

Johansson – Backstrom – Williams

Chimera – Beagle – Burakovsky

Laich – Stephenson – Wilson

Orpik – Carlson

Alzner – Niskanen

Orlov – Schmidt

Holtby

A Song About New York City

There are a lot of great songs about NYC. Here’s one called Cruel City by Augustines, with a video that was filmed in London.

Storylines

Mulligan

Look, on Halloween, in this section of the pregame, we asked for you to leave pictures of your costume in the comments. Very few of you obliged. Let’s call a re-do, since many of you were likely out hitting the town instead of reading the pregame. So, how was your Halloween? Let’s see ‘dem pic, everyone.

Full RMNB Coverage of Caps at Rangers