Rangers vs Oilers: Prediction, Odds, Team News and Goalscorer Picks

Result: Edmonton Oilers 3-1 New York Rangers

Edmonton won on 20 shots. Connor McDavid scored 6:42 into the game and Leon Draisaitl added a second early in the middle period. Jaroslav Chmelar pulled one back shorthanded for New York at 5:05 of the second. Nobody scored again until Draisaitl’s empty-netter at 18:47 of the third, his 18th of the season. The Rangers outshot Edmonton 29-20. Devon Levi stopped 28 of them, and Dylan Garand made 17 saves on 19 shots before he was pulled.

Right side, and close on the score. We took Edmonton 4-2 and the Oilers won 3-1. The reasoning was shakier than the result. We expected the power play to beat New York’s kill, and it didn’t score. The goal against came shorthanded instead. We leaned Tristan Jarry in a crease we called a toss-up, and Levi started. Garand started for New York, as projected. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, day to day on our page, played 18:02. Colton Dach didn’t dress. Four goals against a total of 6.5, with no total call on the page.

The preview as published before the game follows.

Edmonton won at Madison Square Garden eight days ago, 4-1, and Connor McDavid scored 50 seconds in. New York arrives on a three-game winning run with the second-best penalty kill in the NHL.

That kill is what Rangers vs Oilers comes down to on Monday night. Edmonton’s power play is third in the league and has already scored on this opponent once this season.

How to watch in Canada

This one is on Sportsnet+ rather than a linear Sportsnet channel, and the how to watch the NHL in Canada guide explains the difference.

Rangers vs Oilers odds at Canadian sportsbooks

Goalie matchup

Both creases are open. Tristan Jarry and Devon Levi have split Edmonton’s starts eight apiece, and Levi won on Saturday, which tilts the next one toward Jarry without settling it. Dylan Garand has 11 of New York’s 18 starts at a .906. Joonas Korpisalo took Saturday’s game in Seattle, though, so the Rangers’ call is no lock either.

Team news

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is the name to check. He was hurt early in the second period against Vancouver on Saturday and couldn’t finish. Edmonton lists him day to day with a head injury. Colton Dach, who scored twice in New York, is day to day with an illness. The Rangers are without Igor Shesterkin for the season, and Alberts Smits is day to day.

Edmonton and New York aside, every club’s list is on our NHL injury report.

How they compare this season

Edmonton scores more than anyone, 4.17 goals a game. New York sits 19th on 3.06 but concedes fewer than the Oilers, 2.89 a game to 3.06, so the gap between them is almost all at one end of the ice. It’s a big one.

Special teams

Here’s where the game turns. Edmonton’s power play scores on a third of its chances. New York kills 89.1 per cent, second in the NHL. One of those numbers has to give, and if it’s the Rangers’ kill this game can get away from them quickly. The other way round there’s little in it: a Rangers power play ranked 19th meets an Oilers kill ranked 21st.

Players to watch

McDavid has 47 points this season and six assists across his last two. Leon Draisaitl has four goals in three games, two of them against Vancouver on Saturday. For New York, Adam Fox has 20 assists. Alexis Lafrenière has nine goals but none in his last five.

Recent meetings

Edmonton has won four of the last five meetings. New York’s one win in that stretch came in overtime in Edmonton in October 2025. Across 90 games the Oilers have 49 wins.

How the last meeting unfolded

On 1 November Edmonton led 2-0 inside seven minutes, McDavid scoring first and Dach adding the second. Evan Bouchard’s power-play goal made it 3-0 in the second before Pavel Dorofeyev answered for New York.

Where both clubs shoot from

New York had more of the puck that night, 58 shot attempts to 49, and scored once. Edmonton turned fewer looks into four goals.

Results so far

Score prediction

The league’s best attack runs into one of its best penalty kills, and we expect Edmonton’s power play to find a way through at least once over sixty minutes. Oilers by two.

Rangers vs Oilers prediction

Edmonton is at home, won the last meeting comfortably and scores more than anybody. The books agree, pricing the Oilers at 57 per cent once the margin is removed.

The case against is New York’s form and that kill. The Rangers have won three straight, and if the kill holds this is a closer game than the price suggests.

Our pick: Edmonton to win. Rangers 2–4 Oilers. What would change it: if Nugent-Hopkins and Dach were both ruled out, which would thin Edmonton’s forward group on a night it needs depth.

Where each sits against the other 30 is in the NHL power rankings, and the NHL schedule has the rest of Monday’s card. Player markets, rather than the side and the total, are on our NHL player props page.

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