- 1 New York Rangers vs Edmonton Oilers: a rested home team against McDavid on the second night of a back-to-back
- 2 New York Rangers: 6-1-0 at home and a 90.5% penalty kill
- 3 Edmonton Oilers: 4.23 goals a game, a 71.4% penalty kill and no Hyman
- 4 Free NHL Prediction: New York Rangers vs Edmonton Oilers
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New York Rangers vs Edmonton Oilers: a rested home team against McDavid on the second night of a back-to-back 
Igor Shesterkin won’t play another game this season. The Rangers goaltender hurt his right knee in Washington on 9 October, and since then Dylan Garand has done most of the work: 10 appearances, eight starts, a 4-5-1 record, a 2.69 GAA and an .899 save percentage.
New York are 7-6-1 with 15 points, third in the Metropolitan, and have lost three straight: 5-4 in Toronto, 7-4 in Ottawa and 6-3 at home to Los Angeles on Monday, when James Reimer was pulled in his Rangers debut after allowing three goals on eight shots.
Edmonton come to Madison Square Garden on Sunday 1 November, puck drop at 6:00pm ET, at 9-2-2 and top of the Pacific. Connor McDavid has 8 goals and 28 assists in 13 games, 36 points, and the Oilers are unbeaten on the road at 5-0-0.
Edmonton play at the Islanders on Saturday afternoon and travel across the city for Sunday’s game, so this is the second half of a back-to-back. The Rangers last played on Monday 26 October and will have had five full days off.
The two teams split last season’s series. Edmonton won 2-0 at Madison Square Garden on 14 October 2025, and New York won 4-3 in overtime in Edmonton on 30 October.
New York Rangers: 6-1-0 at home and a 90.5% penalty kill 
The Rangers’ record splits cleanly by venue. They’re 6-1-0 at Madison Square Garden and 1-5-1 away from it, and four of their last six games came on the road, including two of the three defeats in the current losing run.
Their penalty kill works at 90.5%, third in the NHL. That matters more than usual on Sunday, because Edmonton’s power play converts 35.7%, the best in the league. New York’s own power play sits 16th at 21.1%.
Adam Fox leads the team with 17 points, 16 of them assists, and had seven points in three games before the Ottawa trip. Lafrenière has nine goals and 16 points, Zibanejad 11 points and J.T. Miller 10. Miller, Fox and Kartye scored in Monday’s loss to the Kings.
Shesterkin is out for the season, Reimer is day-to-day with an upper-body injury, and Korpisalo hasn’t debuted and isn’t expected back until the second week of November. Garand is the likely starter on Sunday.
Mike Sullivan’s team scores 3.14 goals a game and allows 3.00, and wins 53.8% of its faceoffs. They’re outshot slightly on average, 26.3 to 24.7.
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Edmonton Oilers: 4.23 goals a game, a 71.4% penalty kill and no Hyman 
Edmonton score 4.23 goals per game, the product of McDavid’s 36 points, Leon Draisaitl’s 12 goals and 24 points and Evan Bouchard’s 22 points from the blue line. McDavid is plus-17 and Bouchard plus-19.
The Oilers allow 3.23 goals a game, and their penalty kill works at 71.4%, tied for 25th. They’ve also been outshot on average, 26.8 shots against to 26.1 for.
Zach Hyman left the 26 October game against Detroit after a hit from Englund and is expected to miss at least a week with a suspected concussion. Matthew Savoie and Alec Regula are on long-term injured reserve, and Janmark has been listed out.
In goal, Devon Levi went on injured reserve after getting hurt on 22 October, and Matt Tomkins was recalled from Bakersfield on an emergency basis. Tristan Jarry is 3-1-2 with a 2.95 GAA and an .889 save percentage, and he shut out Calgary 4-0 on Wednesday with 24 saves.
Mike Babcock hasn’t said who starts which half of the weekend. With Levi out, Edmonton’s options are Jarry twice in two days or Tomkins in one of them.
Probable lineup New York Rangers: Not announced at time of publication (Garand the likely starter in goal)
Probable lineup Edmonton Oilers: Not announced at time of publication
Free NHL Prediction: New York Rangers vs Edmonton Oilers
Our prediction: New York Rangers to win (moneyline)
We’re taking the Rangers at home. New York are 6-1-0 at Madison Square Garden, will have had five days off, and have the third-best penalty kill in the league to meet the best power play. Edmonton will be playing for the second time in roughly 28 hours, without Hyman, and with either a tired Jarry or an AHL call-up in net.
McDavid’s 36 points and Edmonton’s 5-0-0 road record are the case against us, and the Rangers’ three straight losses don’t help. Those defeats came against Toronto, Ottawa and Los Angeles, with two of them on the road, and New York’s home form has held up all season.
Lines for Sunday weren’t available when we filed. We’d expect the Rangers to be priced as home underdogs, well above our 1.45 floor. Confirm Edmonton’s starting goaltender after Saturday’s game at UBS Arena.
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