NYR TODAY 3/3

NEW YORK RANGERS GAME DAY

NEW YORK RANGERS (37-20-6) at PITTSBURGH PENGUINS (32-22-8)
TONIGHT 7:00 PM, MSG, NHLN

Season series: Goalie Henrik Lundqvist made 34 saves for the 58th shutout of his NHL career in the New York Rangers' 3-0 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Feb. 10. Forwards Kevin Hayes, Dominic Moore and Jesper Fast scored for the Rangers, who ended Pittsburgh center Sidney Crosby's seven-game goal-scoring streak.

Rangers team scope: Fast did not practice Wednesday and remains sidelined with flu-like symptoms. "This flu looks like it's turning into a virus," coach Alain Vigneault told BlueshirtsUnited.com "He's still day-to-day, but he still has a fever and he's not coming with us on the trip," Forward Marek Hrivik will likely be called up from Hartford of the American Hockey League on an emergency basis. Vigneault is hoping forward Rick Nash (leg) returns to the Rangers in 10 days to two weeks. Forward Eric Staal, acquired from the Carolina Hurricanes on Feb. 28, skated on the third line between Oscar Lindberg and Kevin Hayes during his first practice with the Rangers. "It was nice to be out here with the guys and get comfortable learning the way they do things here," Staal told Newsday. "Good practice. I'm settling down a little bit more." New York has won three straight games, five of its past six and 10 of its past 13.

Team Leaders

Goals

Brassard 22

Crosby 25

Shots

Nash 149

Kessel 201

Hits

Glass 156

Kunitz 208

Assists

Yandle 31

Letang 37

NYR Alumni Birthdays 

3/3 Jack Gordon LW (1948-1951) Steve Kraftcheck D (1951-1953) Kelly Miller LW (1984-1987) Colton Orr RW (2005-2007)

NY RANGERS LEGEND #2 BRIAN LEETCH 

17 Seasons played: 1998-2007

Regular-Season Games with Rangers: 1129 - Playoff Games with Rangers: 82  

NY Rangers Captain: Oct. 3, 1997, to July 12, 2000 

TODAY IN NYR HISTORY MARCH 3
1977: Rod Gilbert becomes the first — and only — Ranger to score 400 goals with the Blueshirts.