Rangers at Senators preview

RANGERS (1-0-0) at SENATORS (0-1-0)
7 p.m. ET; CITY, MSG, NHL.TV

The Rangers defeated the Winnipeg Jets 6-4 at Madison Square Garden in their season opener on Thursday. The last time they won their first two games was 2015-16, when they started 3-0-0.
Alexandar Georgiev will be in goal for the Rangers; he was 14-13-4 with a 2.91 goals-against average and .914 save percentage in 33 games (30 starts) last season.
Forward Scott Sabourin, who was born in Orleans, Ontario, 20 minutes from Ottawa, will play in his first home game for the Senators. He scored a goal in his NHL debut Wednesday, a 5-3 loss at the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Players to watch

Rangers forward Mika Zibanejad had four points (one goal, three assists) against the Jets.
Senators forward Brady Tkachuk scored a goal and had six hits against the Maple Leafs.

They said it

"I thought maybe too often our forwards would leave our [defensemen] a little bit on an island in our end from a breakout standpoint [on Thursday]. But those are things we worked on today. I think we'll be better across the board [tonight]." -- Rangers coach David Quinn
"[The Rangers] have a lot of guys that are putting up offense already, right out of the gates. Mika [Zibanejad] had a strong game [on Thursday]. And they can skate, so we're going to have to try to take away time and space and not let their [defensemen] get involved in the rush, as well, because they seemed to get up ice in that first game pretty good." -- Senators forward Bobby Ryan

Rangers projected lineup

Artemi Panarin -- Mika Zibanejad -- Pavel Buchnevich
Chris Kreider -- Ryan Strome -- Kaapo Kakko
Vladislav Namestnikov -- Brett Howden -- Jesper Fast
Brendan Lemieux -- Lias Andersson -- Brendan Smith
Libor Hajek -- Jacob Trouba
Marc Staal -- Tony DeAngelo
Brady Skjei -- Adam Fox
Alexandar Georgiev
Henrik Lundqvist
Scratched:Micheal Haley, Greg McKegg
Injured:None

Senators projected lineup

Brady Tkachuk -- Colin White -- Bobby Ryan
Anthony Duclair -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau -- Connor Brown
Tyler Ennis -- Chris Tierney -- Scott Sabourin
Mikkel Boedker -- Artem Anisimov -- Drake Batherson
Thomas Chabot -- Nikita Zaitsev
Erik Brannstrom -- Ron Hainsey
Mark Borowiecki -- Dylan DeMelo
Craig Anderson
Anders Nilsson
Scratched:Filip Chlapik, Cody Goloubef
Injured:None

Status report

Tkachuk and Brannstrom will play after each sustained a facial injury that required stitches.

Stat pack

Trouba (one goal, two assists) and Panarin (one goal, one assist) each had multi-point games in their Rangers debut on Thursday.