Coyotes at Rangers preview

COYOTES (4-2-1) at RANGERS (2-4-0)
7 p.m. ET; MSG, FS-A, FS-A Plus, NHL.TV

The Coyotes, who start a four-game road trip, have points in five straight games (4-0-1) since losing their first two in regulation. They have scored 14 goals in their winning streak and 20 in their point streak.
The Rangers have been outscored 17-7 in their four-game losing streak.

Players to watch

Coyotes forward Nick Schmaltz has eight points (three goals, five assists) in a five-game point streak.
Rangers forward Jesper Fast had a goal and an assist in a 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday.

They said it

"I think we've had 12 breakaways this year. Usually you get 12 in 40 games, but we're getting a ton of breakaways. I think it's from the speed of [Michael] Grabner, [Vinnie] Hinostroza, [Clayton] Keller. When a team is on a forecheck, that's when they're at their most vulnerable because you've just got to get it by their layer and you get an odd-man rush. If you don't them out then you're in trouble, but we've done a nice job of getting pucks out to those speed guys." -- Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet
"You find out a lot about your group when you're going through the stretch we're going through. We've got to understand that this is adversity. You get off to a 2-0 start and everyone is telling you how great you are. We scored some goals and we got a highlight-reel goal, and I think it was really misleading some people and maybe misleading some of our guys in the locker room how this was going to play out." -- Rangers coach David Quinn

Coyotes projected lineup

Clayton Keller -- Derek Stepan -- Phil Kessel
Conor Garland -- Christian Dvorak -- Nick Schmaltz
Lawson Crouse -- Carl Soderberg -- Christian Fischer
Michael Grabner -- Brad Richardson -- Vinnie Hinostroza
Oliver Ekman-Larsson -- Jason Demers
Jakob Chychrun -- Alex Goligoski
Ilya Lyubushkin
-- Kyle Capobianco
Darcy Kuemper
Antti Raanta
Scratched: Aaron Ness, Barrett Hayton, Eric Comrie
Injured: Niklas Hjalmarsson (lower body), Jordan Oesterle (upper body)

Rangers projected lineup

Artemi Panarin -- Mika Zibanejad -- Jesper Fast
Chris Kreider -- Brett Howden -- Kaapo Kakko
Brendan Lemieux -- Ryan Strome -- Pavel Buchnevich
Brendan Smith -- Lias Andersson -- Greg McKegg
Libor Hajek -- Jacob Trouba
Brady Skjei -- Tony DeAngelo
Marc Staal -- Adam Fox
Alexandar Georgiev
Henrik Lundqvist
Scratched: Micheal Haley
Injured: Yegor Rykov (ankle)

Status report

Fast will move up to play on the first line, replacing Kreider, who will drop down to the second line. Buchnevich will move to the third line, and McKegg re-joins the lineup, replacing Haley.

Stat pack

Kuemper has allowed two goals or fewer in 12 straight starts dating to March 23. … The Coyotes are 6-for-13 on the power play in their past three games. … The Rangers have allowed a power-play goal in four straight games, going 11-for-16 (68.8 percent) on the penalty kill.