vs. , 7 p.m. ETIt should be quite a night at Madison Square Garden on Monday. John Tortorella will be paying a visit to his old stomping grounds, while the Rangers will be welcoming a new member to their lineup with expected to make his debut with the team after being acquired in a trade with the on Sunday. Staal will now have an opportunity to play alongside all three of his brothers in the NHL when he joins Marc Paul George Jersey in New York (he had previously been teammates with Jordan and Jared in Carolina).The decision to give up more draft picks and a prospect for Staal is a pretty clear sign that the Rangers are commited to going after a Stanley Cup, and perhaps a sign that they know their window to do so isn't going to open that much longer.The Rangers have been playing pretty well over the past month and carry a 9-3-1 record in the month of February into Monday's game, and that's come with some pretty significant Oklahoma City Thunder T-Shirts injury i sues during that time that have forced both and out of the lineup for several of those games.Even though they are not winning games at the same pace they were at the start of the season when it looked as if they were going to run away with the Eastern Conference, this is still a pretty strong, deep team with a world-cla s goaltender that is going to be a tough out in the playoffs, and Staal should only help that even if his production Al Horford Jersey has rapidly declined in recent years. The important thing for him with the Rangers is they are not going to need him to be the No. 1 guy that is counted on to carry everything the way he was in Carolina, because he simply isn't that player anymore. He is going to be a complementary piece, and a pretty good one. Even though the production isn't anything close to what it used to be, he is still a very strong two-way player that can help all over Nick Collison Jersey the ice.The Blue Jackets, meanwhile, are in the middle of their annual late-season surge and are 9-2-3 in their past 14 games. It really hasn't made much of a dent in the gap between them and a playoff spot because, once again, their start to the season was so bad that it pretty much ended their season before it even really had a chance to begin. Even though they are playing better hockey at the moment, the Rangers are still Mike Muscala Jersey the better hockey team, and it's not known what the Blue Jackets roster for Monday night will even look like given the potential for trades before the 3 p.m. ET trade deadline (will Scott Hartnell be on the move?). The Rangers should continue their strong month of February and pick up another win. Pick: New York Rangers 4, Columbus Blue Jackets 2The rest of Monday's scores 4, 1 5, 2 3, 1 4, 3 5, 3