Tony DeAngelo will be a healthy scratch for the Rangers in Saturday’s rematch against the Islanders.
The Rangers defender skated with the taxi team on Friday after being 1:05 in. for unsportsmanlike conduct the third phase of the 4-0 defeat against the islands on Thursday had been called. DeAngelo, previously a sane scratch under head coach David Quinn for what Quinn previously referred to as « maturity issues », slammed the box door and yelled at the referees after committing a suspended penalty.
» Look, there’s just a ton of things we’re going to keep around the house and this is one of them, « Quinn said ahead of the contest on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. “Tony and I talked about it. It’s clear what happened here. It was the right thing to do and it will be back in the lineup soon. «
When asked if he would scratch another player on the line-up if he behaved like DeAngelo on Thursday, Quinn said he would and that it had nothing to do with the fact that it was a repeat offender in DeAngelo.
As a result, defensive pairings are likely to look very different after Quinn switched them in practice on Friday, with Ryan Lindgren skating with Jacob Trouba, Jack Johnson to Adam Fox and left Brendan Smith was on the right with K’Andre Miller.
Kevin Rooney, who had to be helped off the ice at the start of the third section on Thursday after going blind without Ross Johnston’s puck, will not be on the line-up on Saturday He didn’t skate on Friday and is considered « everyday ».
Alexis Lafreniere repeated himself on Friday with Artemi Panarin and Ryan Strome on the right wing of the second row while Kaapo Kakko in the third row was downgraded. Quinn was asked if he had a conversation with the 2020 number one about going offside.
« It’s always funny when you ask a player if he likes to play offside, if it looks like that As if it was an opportunity to get more Ice Age, they always say « yes » whether or not they are actually comfortable, « he said. « That being said, if we do that, he’ll be skillful enough and smart enough and good enough to handle it. »
The Islanders loaned Josh Ho-Sang to Orebro HK for the remainder of the 2020-21 season Swedish Hockey League.
The Post reported that Ho-Sang intended to play for the islanders’ AHL daughter in Bridgeport if the organization so chose. However, after the 24-year-old wasn’t invited to training camp before clearing the exemptions last week, it became clear that the islanders had no intention of using him during the 56-game season.
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