New York Rangers at Chicago Blackhawks: game preview
NY RangersRangers2026-27: 4-1-0 · 8 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 30that
ChicagoBlackhawks2026-27: 1-3-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 29-39-14 · 72 pts · 31stFive points apart last season
NY Rangers finished last season 30th in the league on 77 points. Chicago finished 31st on 72.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 628
Across 627 completed games, Chicago lead the head-to-head 324-279-24.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 10 Dec 2025, NY Rangers were 16th in the league and Chicago 20th. By 27 Mar 2026 it was 30th and 31st.
NY Rangers out-attempted Chicago 117 to 102
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
New York Rangers
Chicago Blackhawks
NY Rangers have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 5 games for NY Rangers, 4 for Chicago. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for NY Rangers, 10 for Chicago.
2025-26: 82 games for NY Rangers, 82 for Chicago.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
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Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 25 Nov: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 25 Nov: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
NY Rangers crease
NYR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 24 Nov
No appearances against Chicago in the last meetings.
Chicago crease
CHI · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 24 Nov
No appearances against NY Rangers in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 5.9 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
NY Rangers3.201.602.903.05
Chicago2.254.252.603.35Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
7 on the injury lists
NY Rangers · injuries
Chicago · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Recalled C Gabriel Beaudoin from Hartford (AHL). Placed C Joe Veleno on injured reserve.
Placed D Matthew Robertson on waivers.
Placed G Joonas Korpisalo on injured reserve. Recalled G Dylan Garand from Hartford (AHL).
Assigned D Charles Alexis Legault to Chicago (AHL).
Agreed to terms with F Oliver Moore on a five-year contract extension. Loaned Fs Jiri felcman, Martin Misiak and Marek Vanacker and D Dylan Anhorn to Rockford (AHL). Assigned F Brett Seney to Rockford.
Placed D Derrick Pouliot on waivers.
NY Rangers · 2026 draft
See all: NY Rangers · 2026 draft →Chicago · 2026 draft
See all: Chicago · 2026 draft →Friday 27 November · the full slate
See all: Friday 27 November · the full slate →
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