The New York Rangers would love to close out a whacky first month of the 2025-26 NHL season on a winning note, when they visit the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.
A victory at Rogers Place would mean the Rangers (4-5-2) finish their October schedule at NHL-.500. That’s not nothing, considering the Rangers are winless at home (0-4-1) and somehow the second-lowest scoring team in the League (2.18 goals per game), despite quite often badly outplaying the opposition.
Throw into the mix that they’ve played most of the month without indispensable center Vincent Trocheck, who’s on IR and misses his 10th game Thursday with an upper-body injury, and, yeah, you can say that the Rangers can feel good about where they are all things considered.