New York Rangers at Carolina Hurricanes: game preview
NY RangersRangers2026-27: 4-1-0 · 8 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 30that
CarolinaHurricanes2026-27: 2-1-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 53-22-7 · 113 pts · 2ndThirty-six points apart last season
NY Rangers finished last season 30th in the league on 77 points. Carolina finished 2nd on 113, and the 2025-26 season series went CAR 3-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 129
Across 128 completed games, NY Rangers lead the head-to-head 74-48-6.
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 4 Nov 2025, NY Rangers were 23rd in the league and Carolina 11th. By 5 Feb 2026 it was 28th and 3rd.
Carolina out-attempted NY Rangers 312 to 179
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
New York Rangers
Carolina Hurricanes
Carolina 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 Carolina. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for NY Rangers, 10 for Carolina.
2025-26: 82 games for NY Rangers, 86 for Carolina.
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.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
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Small sampleCarolina
Small sampleSkaters to watch
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 20 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 19 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
NY Rangers crease
NYR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Feb
No appearances against Carolina in the last meetings.
Carolina crease
CAR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Feb
No appearances against NY Rangers in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.0 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
Carolina2.753.003.612.93Goals 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.
6 on the injury lists
NY Rangers · injuries
Carolina · 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).
Placed G Cayden Primeau on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed LD Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed D Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
NY Rangers · 2026 draft
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