Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens faceoff for Game 2 of their best-of-seven Eastern Conference Finals series live from the Bell Centre in Montreal as part of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The game can be live streamed for free here. New York fans can hear all of the action on 98.7 WEPN while Montreal fans can do the same on TSN 690.
New York looks to take a 2-0 series lead back home with it while Montreal hopes to bounce back from a Game 1 rout and even up the series before it shifts to the Big Apple. The Rangers won Game 1 from the Canadiens 7-2 at the Bell Centre on Saturday.
The Canadiens will look to get into this series without goaltender Carey Price, who was injured in Game 1 after he was run into by Chris Kreider during the second period. Price remained in the game until he was pulled for the third period after yielding four goals on 20 shots, and now he will miss the rest of the series with a lower-body injury.
The Rangers have been rallying around Martin St. Louis following the death of his mother, France, and the team attended France St. Louis' funeral on Sunday.
"He felt the organization was there to support him," center Brad Richards told NHL.com. "We felt how passionate he was coming back and playing. I think it just made him and us get closer to him. He really feels like he's a Ranger now with what he went through and everybody behind him."
Richards (five goals, five assists) and St. Louis (four tallies six helpers) are tied for second on the team with 10 postseason points while Mats Zuccarello has found the twine four times and added a team-high seven assists for 11 points to pace the Blueshirts.
St. Louis, Richards, Zuccarello and Kreider each had goals in Game 1 along with Derek Stepan, Rick Nash and Ryan McDonagh, who was originally traded from Montreal to New York and was one of two Rangers to have two or more points in Game 1 while tying a franchise record for points in a playoff game for a Rangers defenseman.
The Canadiens, in danger of falling in a 2-0 hole for the first time this postseason, are none too pleased to have to go without Price.
"I'm really disappointed," coach Michel Therrien said per NHL.com. "Obviously he's our best player. Looking at the incident, it's a reckless play. That's the truth."
Montreal will turn to 24-year-old Dustin Tokarski, who has never started a playoff game, over Peter Budaj, who came into the third period in Game 1 and yielded three goals.
New York counters with Henrik Lundqvist, who won his first game in Montreal since 2009 on Saturday and is 9-6 in the postseason with a 1.99 goals-against average and a .929 save percentage.
Montreal has been led offensively by P.K. Subban, who has 12 points off of four goals and eight assists while Lars Eller has five tallies and six helpers for 11 points and Brendan Gallagher has lit the lamp four times and added five assists for nine points. Eller and Rene Bourque each scored for the Habs in Game 1.
The Rangers look to take a 2-0 series lead back home while the Canadiens look to even things up when the puck drops on Eastern Conference Finals Game 2 tonight at the Bell Centre in Montreal as part of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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