The Rangers will visit a Blues team that took a 5-1 record into Friday night's game at Chicago.

On Wednesday night the Rangers will visit the Continental Arena to complete the home-and-home series.

He was hoping he would play tomorrow night when the Rangers visit the Devils for the first time this season.

But he didn't play at the Meadowlands when the Rangers visited.

"That was a tough one," said Brodeur, who will probably start tonight when the Rangers visit the Devils.

They are likely to be together again Thursday when the Rangers visit the Carolina Hurricanes in the second stop of a three-game trip.

"Geez, don't ask him that," Showalter said recently in Atlanta when the Rangers were visiting for a three-game series.

The Rangers will visit the Hurricanes tomorrow.

The last time the Rangers visited Philadelphia, on Feb. 1, they were challenging for first place in the division.

As was the case in their previous two stops, the Rangers were visiting a team without two of its top players because of injuries.