Day: September 23, 2014

The Rangers opened up their preseason with a 5-4 loss against the Devils at home.  It was a shaky defensive performance, against a fairly weak Devils line-up that featued Scott Clemmensen and Keith Kinkaid in net, against New York’s projected opening pair of Henrik Lundqvist and Cam Talbot.

It was a chance for several Rangers to push their chances for inclusion, or that a very least, consideration for a call up in the event of a slow start or injury to one of the projected starters.  It was also the first hit-out in Rangers blue for nine of the twenty rostered players, as well as the first preseason game for Martin St. Louis as a New York Ranger, following his acquisition at the trade deadlnie last year.