The Rangers are back on solid ground, and now comes the real test of whether this three-game surge means anything beyond a good week.
New York heads into Western Canada riding a three-game winning streak and sitting in third place in the Metropolitan Division after hanging on for a 4-3 win over Seattle on Saturday. That’s a far cry from the doom-and-gloom mood around the team just a week ago, but the schedule doesn’t exactly hand out a breather.
It starts Monday night in Edmonton, where the Rangers will have to deal with Connor McDavid and a red-hot Oilers team at Rogers Place. McDavid is on pace for 200 points, a number reached only by Wayne Gretzky during his Oilers run. Gretzky’s 215 points in 1985-86 remain the NHL single-season record.
The Rangers already know what Edmonton can do to them. Their last loss, a 4-1 defeat at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 1, may have been the low point of the first quarter of the season. New York managed just one goal against Matt Tomkins, Edmonton’s third-string goaltender and a career minor leaguer.
The Oilers have had the Rangers’ number for a while, too. Edmonton is 5-0-1 in the last six meetings, and the Oilers have won 11 of the past 15.
The Rangers did win their most recent trip to Rogers Place, a 4-3 overtime result on Oct. 30, 2025.
McDavid has been a problem in this matchup for years. He has points in all 18 of Edmonton’s games this season, including a goal and an assist in the win at the Garden.
In 18 career games against the Rangers, he has 10 goals and 26 points. Leon Draisaitl has been just as dangerous, with 24 points - eight goals and 16 assists - in 23 games against New York.
J.T. Miller has done his part against Edmonton, with 12 goals and 38 points in 39 games against the Oilers, including the overtime winner last season.
After Edmonton, the Rangers move on to Calgary on Nov. 11, and that building has not been kind to them. New York has dropped five of its past seven games at the Saddledome, including a 5-1 loss on Oct.
26, 2025. Overall, the Rangers are 9-21-2 with four ties there as they prepare for what will be their final visit before the Flames move to Scotia Place for the 2027-28 season.
Calgary has shown some life after looking like a team headed for another non-playoff year. The Flames have picked up their play over the past couple of weeks.
Alexis Lafreniere, though, has had success against them, scoring a hat trick in the Rangers’ 4-0 win at MSG on March 10 and posting seven goals in 10 career games against Calgary. Flames captain Mikael Backlund has four goals and 14 points in 22 career games against the Rangers, along with a plus-14 rating.
The trip ends Thursday in Vancouver, where the Rangers have generally found more success. New York is 7-2-0 in its past nine games against the Canucks, including a 6-2 win at the Garden on Oct.
- The Rangers have also done well in Vancouver over the years, going 42-20-1 with three ties there, and they’ll face a Canucks team that appears headed for a second straight last-place finish in the overall standings.
Vancouver has struggled at home, going 1-7-0 this season, and has lost four straight to the Rangers at Rogers Arena. That includes a 2-0 loss on Oct.
28, 2025. Tye Kartye and Will Cuylle each scored twice in the Rangers’ win over the Canucks last month, while Mika Zibanejad had two assists.
He has 27 points - 12 goals and 25 points - in 25 games against Vancouver. Elias Pettersson, the forward, has four goals and 14 points in 14 career games against New York.
There’s also a rare stretch of downtime waiting at the end of the trip. The Rangers will have Saturday and Sunday off before celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first game in franchise history against the Montreal Canadiens next Monday night. On Nov. 16, 1926, the Rangers blanked Montreal 1-0 at Madison Square Garden in their NHL debut.
One of the biggest reasons for the recent turnaround has been Adam Fox. He piled up five points - one goal and four assists - in the three wins last week, finished plus-2, and averaged nearly 25 minutes of ice time. His assist in Seattle made him the fastest Rangers defenseman to reach 20 assists in a season, getting there in 18 games and beating Brian Leetch’s 2000-01 pace by one game.
Not everyone is rolling. Matt Rempe appeared in all three games last week but had just two shots on goal and averaged less than seven minutes of ice time. He has no points in his five games this season.
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