Tonight at 7 p.m. ET, the New York Rangers (6-4-2, 14 points) and Toronto Maple Leafs (6-5-2, 14 points) face-off live from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto for the second of three meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. New York fans can hear all of the action on 98.7 ESPN while Toronto fans can do the same on TSN 1050.
New York has lost two out of three games and has gone past regulation in each one of them while Toronto has lost two straight matches but has also notched victories in its last two home games. The Maple Leafs defeated the Rangers 6-3 on Oct. 12 at Madison Square Garden.
The Rangers are coming off of a 4-3 overtime victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday that saw Rick Nash notch his team-leading 10th goal of the season.
Nash leads the team with 13 points while Derick Brassard has five tallies and six helpers for 11 points and Martin St. Louis has found the back of the net four times and added six assists for 10 points.
New York has dealt with injuries all season, but they will get one top-six forward back when Derek Stepan makes his season debut after missing the first 12 games with a broken leg.
"I feel good, I feel strong," Stepan told the New York Daily News after practicing on Friday. "It was good to get back in the mix."
The Maple Leafs are coming off of a 4-3 loss to the Colorado Avalanche in a shootout on Thursday that saw Phil Kessel notch his team-best seventh goal of the season. Kessel has added 11 assists to lead the team with 18 points.
Coach Randy Carlyle was not happy about the back-and-forth game his team played last time out.
"It was one of those reckless type of games that I'm sure was exciting for fans," Carlyle said per NHL.com. "It's never exciting for coaches."
While Kessel paces Toronto with 18 points, Tyler Bozak is second on the team with 12 points off of five tallies and seven helpers and James van Riemsdyk is third with nine points by way of lighting the lamp five times and adding four assists.
Jonathan Bernier is slated to man the crease for Toronto tonight and he is 3-3-2 with a 2.59 goals-against average and a .916 save percentage.
New York has announced that backup Cam Talbot will make his third start of the season and he enters play with an 0-1-1 record while yielding seven goals on 69 shots.
It's an Original Six matchup when the puck drops on the Rangers and Maple Leafs live tonight from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
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