How to Watch: National broadcast on NBCSN
Opponent Track: The Rangers have a little momentum heading into this game, going 3-0-1 in their last four, including a two game winning streak, most recently 2-1 winners against St. Louis on the road on Monday.
Pens Refresh: Six game winning streak for the boys in black and gold.
Season series: This is game #40 of the season for the Pens, but only the first matchup against the Rangers so far. Go figure. The teams will see each other on February 17th, March 25th and the last game of the regular season on April 6th.
SBN Team Counterpart: Blueshirt Banter

Tale of the tape

—The Rangers aren’t a pretty team on spreadsheets. They get outshot and give up a ton of shots overall. Their saving graces are a pretty decent power play and some PDO factors of shooting well and getting a lot of saves at 5v5. With Henrik Lundqvist still performing as an above-average goalie, the latter seems a lot more reliable than the former.
—Would imagine the Pens are probably the only team in the league to be top 10 in both PP, PK plus 5v5 shooting and saves. That’s turning into a pretty well-balanced team all around, with the big demerit that they allow a ton of shots against. But such is probably always going to be life for an offensive-minded team.