Tyler Motte could return against the Buffalo Sabres (5 p.m. ET; MSG-B, MSGSN, ESPN+, SN NOW).
Defenseman Ryan Lindgren will not play and remains day to day.
"I don't want to put any pressure on them. We want to make sure they're ready to go," Rangers coach Gerard Gallant said Friday. "We'll see tomorrow and hopefully it's a good day."
Motte skated on a line with Jimmy Vesey and Barclay Goodrow. The forward, who has one assist in six games since being traded to the Rangers on Feb. 19, has missed two games with an upper-body injury.
"I felt pretty good, day by day," Motte said Friday. "Sometimes with injuries it's just a wake-up-and-see-how-it-feels type of thing. That'll be the case for tomorrow, I'm pretty sure."
Lindgren, a defenseman, wore a regular practice jersey and skated alongside regular partner Adam Fox. Lindgren, who wore a noncontact jersey at the Rangers' morning skate Thursday in Montreal, has missed five games with an upper-body injury. He has 17 points (one goal, 16 assists) in 57 games.
"It's been tough," Lindgren said. "It obviously [stinks] not playing and you want to be out there, but you've got to be smart, too, take your time and make sure when you do get back out there, you're feeling good. It's never fun missing games like this. … Just want to get back out there."-- Heather Engel