NHL Game Preview: New York Rangers at Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 4/14/2025

Chris Kreider congratulates Igor Shesterkin on a win
Photo Credit: Dennis Schneidler-USA TODAY Sports

New York Rangers (37-36-7, 81 Pts) at Florida Panthers (47-29-4, 98 Pts)
Venue: Amerant Bank Arena
Date: Tonight – April 14
Time: 7:00 pm EST

TV: ESPN+, MSG, SCRIPPS
Radio:
New York – WEPN-FM 98.7 ESPN New York
Florida – 560 AM WQAM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
New York
+1.5 ML +136
Florida -1.5 ML -162
O/U 5.5

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New York Rangers News & Notes:

The Rangers lost four out of their last five games after a 7-3 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, eliminating New York from the playoffs. The Blueshirts are 19-17-4 on the road this season. New York has the NHL’s 27th-ranked power play.

Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers have won three games in a row after a 3-2 shootout win over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday. Florida is 27-11-2 at home this season. The Panthers defeated the Rangers 5-3 in their last meeting.

New York Rangers Projected Lines

Panarin-Trocheck-Brodzinski
Cuylle-Miller-Zibanejad
Kreider-Parssinen-Lafreniere
Berard-Carrick-Rempe

Soucy-Fox
Miller-Borgen
Vaakanainen-Robertson

Shesterkin
Quick

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Florida Panthers Projected Lines

Verhaeghe-Barkov-Reinhart
J. Boqvist-Bennett-Rodrigues
Puljujvarvi-Sturm-Asplund
Greer-Nosek-Gadjovich

Forsling-Balinskis
Kulikov-Jones
Megna-Schmidt

Bobrovsky
Vanecek

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Players To Watch:

New York Rangers

Adam Fox has 10 goals and 51 assists for the Rangers. Artemi Panarin has six goals and eight assists over the past ten games.

Florida Panthers

Sam Reinhart has 37 goals and 42 assists for the Panthers. Gustav Forsling has two goals and four assists over the past ten games. Jesper Boqvist scored twice in the last meeting with NYR.

Injury Report:

New York Rangers

LW Adam Edstrom – Out for season
RW Arthur Kaliyev – Out for season
D Braden Schneider – Out for season

Florida Panthers

RW Matthew Tkachuk – Returning for playoffs
D Aaron Ekblad – Can return for Game 3 of playoffs
RW Mackie Samoskevich – Rest
C Anton Lundell – Rest
LW Brad Marchand – Rest
C Eetu Luostarinen – Rest

Next Game

New York Rangers – April 17 vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Florida Panthers – April 15 vs Florida Panthers

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