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Get your game notes: Ducks at Rangers

Henrik Lundqvist

The red-hot Ducks visit the resurgent Rangers tonight on NBCSN, starting at 7:30 p.m. ET. Following are some game notes, as compiled by the NHL on NBC research team:

--- The Rangers and Ducks have the two longest road trips of the 2013-14 NHL season, among all teams. The Rangers began with a franchise record-tying, nine-game road trip (3-6-0 record, Oct. 3-26), while the Ducks will complete a season-high, eight-game road trip (4-2-1 record, Oct. 22-Nov. 4) tonight.

--- The Ducks have not won at Madison Square Garden since Feb. 7, 2008 (0-3-0 since), the fourth-longest active drought by any NHL team at MSG, in terms of time duration. (Elias Sports Bureau)
1. Columbus Blue Jackets – Feb. 24, 2007 (six years, 253 days)
2. Phoenix Coyotes – Dec. 16, 2007 (five years, 323 days)
3. Los Angeles Kings – Feb. 5, 2008 (five years, 272 days)
4. Anaheim Ducks – Feb. 7, 2008 (five years, 270 days)

--- The Ducks rank fifth in the NHL in goals/game (3.27). However, of their 49 goals, a league-high 42 have come during five-on-five situations. Their special teams have been far from special: they have converted on only four of 58 power play opportunities (6.9%), which ranks last in the NHL, and have killed off only 36 of 49 opportunities on the man-disadvantage (73.5%), which ranks 2nd-worst.

--- The Rangers fired a combined 84 shots on goal in their last two games (46 in a 2-0 shutout of Buffalo on Oct. 31, and 38 more in a 5-1 victory over Carolina on Nov. 2). The last time the Rangers had more shots on goal in a two-game stretch was Dec. 23-27, 2010, when they had 89 combined.

--- Since entering the NHL in 2005-06, the Ducks’ Corey Perry is one of only two players with at least 200 goals (228) and 500 penalty minutes (750) during that span. The other is the Hurricanes’ Eric Staal (260 goals, 509 penalty minutes), whose younger brother Marc will have the task of stopping Perry tonight.

--- Chris Kreider and Mats Zuccarello assisted on all three of Derek Stepan’s goals in the Rangers’ 5-1 win vs. Carolina on Saturday. The last time the same three players accounted for all the points on a hat trick was Feb. 27, 2013, when the Ducks’ Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf assisted on all three goals scored by Kyle Palmieri, in a 5-1 win vs. Nashville. (Elias Sports Bureau)

--- Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist (47 shutouts in 521 games) needs two blank sheets to tie Ed Giacomin (49 shutouts in 538 games) for the franchise career mark. Since his rookie season (2005-06), Lundqvist has the most shutouts (47) in the NHL (Martin Brodeur – 46, Roberto Luongo – 41).

--- Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau ranks second among all active NHL coaches, in terms of points percentage, i.e. total points won divided by maximum two points per game. (Minimum 100 games.)

1. Dan Bylsma, Pittsburgh, 449 pts./334 games (668 maximum pts.) = .672 points%
2. Boudreau, Washington/Anaheim, 593 pts./450 games (900 max pts.) = .659 points%
3. Todd McLellan, San Jose, 511 pts./390 games (780 max pts.) = .655 points%
4. Mike Babcock, Anaheim/Detroit, 1,019 pts./801 games (1,602 max pts.) = .636 points%

Rangers coach Alain Vigneault, Montreal/Vancouver/N.Y. Rangers, ranks tenth on the list among actives, with 952 pts./819 games (1,638 max pts.) = .581 points%