Updated following Smith and Soucy trades and Vaakanainen extension

The Canucks tried to give him about about 4-6 minutes more a night than his career average. He's had his best years when he was more a 16-17 minute g...

Not very keen on Ristolainen personally, while he's mostly turned his game around in Philly, he's still an average defender IMO

Will Borgen also played with him in Seattle, and was even his partner for a bit...but the interest in Soucy predates Miller coming back to the Rangers...

Brissons played with former NYR prospect Eric Ciccolini at Michigan for one of his two years, and was probably someone Ryan Martin (Rangers AGM) knew ...

The Trocheck line has had the most chances tonight, do have the one goal from Panarin, but could've had a couple more

Been a pretty even game so far, shots and attempted shots all pretty close. Rangers PP looks pedestrian, need someone to assume Kreider's role at the...

Parssinen apparently is willing to drop the gloves...although he could use some pointers

Cheap, better offensively, better defensively and with more of a consistent edge to his game

Carrick is what Goodrow wasn't

They already had one more than the Rangers, so now they're 2 ahead. Still time for the NYR to catch them tonight

Nice to see a team other than the Rangers get a too many men...not that this PP is likely to score