RANGERS (19-18-5) at PANTHERS (21-15-3)<\/p>\n
2026 Discover NHL Winter Classic at loanDepot park<\/p>\n
8 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT, SNW, SNO, SNE, TVAS<\/p>\n
Rangers projected lineup<\/p>\n
Artemi Panarin — Mika Zibanejad — Will Cuylle<\/p>\n
Alexis Lafreniere — Vincent Trocheck — Gabe Perreault<\/p>\n
Jonny Brodzinski — Justin Dowling — Taylor Raddysh<\/p>\n
Brett Berard — Sam Carrick — Matt Rempe<\/p>\n
Vladislav Gavrikov — Adam Fox<\/p>\n
Carson Soucy — Will Borgen<\/p>\n
Matthew Robertson — Braden Schneider<\/p>\n
Igor Shesterkin<\/p>\n
Jonathan Quick<\/p>\n
Scratched: Anton Blidh, Urho Vaakanainen<\/p>\n
Injured: J.T. Miller (upper body), Adam Edstrom (lower body), Conor Sheary (lower body), Noah Laba (upper body)<\/p>\n
Panthers projected lineup<\/p>\n
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Sam Reinhart<\/p>\n
Brad Marchand — Sam Bennett — Carter Verhaeghe<\/p>\n
Mackie Samoskevich — Evan Rodrigues — A.J. Greer<\/p>\n
Jesper Boqvist — Luke Kunin — Jack Studnicka<\/p>\n
Gustav Forsling — Aaron Ekblad<\/p>\n
Niko Mikkola — Seth Jones<\/p>\n
Uvis Balinskis — Jeff Petry<\/p>\n
Sergei Bobrovsky<\/p>\n
Daniil Tarasov<\/p>\n
Scratched: Donavan Sebrango, Noah Gregor<\/p>\n
Injured: Aleksander Barkov (knee), Matthew Tkachuk (lower body), Tomas Nosek (knee), Jonah Gadjovich (upper body), Dmitry Kulikov (shoulder), Cole Schwindt (arm)<\/p>\n
Status report: Berard, Dowling and Blidh, a forward, were recalled from Hartford of the American Hockey League on Thursday. … Sheary, a forward, was placed on long-term injured reserve because of the lower-body injury he sustained in a 6-3 loss to the Washington Capitals on Wednesday. … Laba, a center, is out week to week with the upper-body injury that he also sustained against Washington on Wednesday. … Miller, the Rangers’ captain, skated on Thursday in a red noncontact jersey. It was his first time skating with the team since sustaining his upper-body injury in a 5-4 shootout win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Dec. 20. He will not play on Friday. … Tkachuk, the Panthers forward, skated in a yellow noncontact jersey on Thursday for the third time this week. He is getting closer to playing but will not play on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RANGERS (19-18-5) at PANTHERS (21-15-3) 2026 Discover NHL Winter Classic at loanDepot park 8 p.m. ET; HBO MAX,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-386052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}