New Jersey Devils vs. New York Rangers

What: New Jersey Devils (3-1-0) vs.

Only one team will exit the ice satisfied with the outcome Saturday night when the Devils and Rangers begin their season series at Madison Square Garden. Stafford was slotted back onto the second line with Marcus Johansson and Nico Hischier, while Jesper Bratt moved down to the third line on Adam Henrique's left side and Jimmy Hayes on the right.

The fourth highest-scoring team in the National Hockey League last season, the Rangers have scored a combined four goals in their past three games. He was forced to make six saves in the opening four minutes. Saturday's game will mark the end of the first of 16 sets of back-to-back games this season. "It's a game of numbers. For us, there's a lot of potential there". NY is +180 on the -1.5 puckline, while New Jersey is -220 on the +1.5 puckline.

The home team is 6-1 in the last seven meetings between New Jersey and NY. "There are lots of lessons to take from this game".

Drew Stafford returned to the lineup for the first time since he was injured in the seaon opener against Colorado. For a fourth straight game, Johansson wore an "A" on his jersey.

Coming into play, the Devils are 3-1-0 on the season following a 5-2 home loss to the Capitals on Friday.

Hynes tinkered further and put Gibbons and Wood on Henrique's line and Palmieri with Coleman and Bratt and the Devils tied the game on their seventh shot as Gibbons, after a strong forecheck, fed Henrique just inside the right circle, where he beat Pavelec over his right shoulder at 10:21. The Rangers fell to 0-2 on the road in last night's tilt and continue to be sloppy in all three zones. Three of those games went to overtime. It will be his first start of the season after posting a 2.64 GAA past year. No other player on the roster has had an "A" in four consecutive games.

Lundqvist and Schneider both started Friday night.

The result was another loss, the Rangers' third straight, a 3-2 defeat to the Devils at the Garden that has them at 1-5-0 through six games, the worst start of the Alain Vigneault era.

It's still unclear who Fast will be replacing, but at this point, nobody really cares too much.