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The Rangers came into the game against Edmonton riding the highs of their first win. However they were unable to generate sustained offense, and Cam Talbot made some big saves as Edmonton eventually came away with the win. The story will be the second Edmonton goal, in which poor officiating directly led to the game winning goal. However it’s still the Rangers who couldn’t sustain anything against an Edmonton team that was looking for its first win.

In a season that is going to have a lot of negatives, especially as the losses pile up, I think it’s important to focus on the positives. So let’s introduce that new feature to the game recaps, shall we?

  • Henrik Lundqvist was solid again.
  • Jesper Fast has seemed to gel nicely with Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad.
  • Brett Howden looked good as well.
  • The penalty kill was somewhat good. That powerplay goal against was a bit of bad luck.
  • They played pretty decent defense, minus the bad penalty calls.
  • This is a team that will never give up, that’s for sure.

Rangers 1, Oilers 0

I didn’t see this one. But the NHL Twitter account came through. Mika Zibanejad found a hole in the defense, you can see it at 8 seconds into the video. He crept in from the boards and no one picked him up. The pass from Marc Staal went off a skate right to the open Zibanejad for the goal.

Rangers 1, Oilers 1

Adam McQuaid kind of lost his man in front here. You can’t do that when it’s Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. There is some bad puck luck here, but if RNH is tied up, he can’t bat that home.

Oilers 2, Rangers 1

I don’t really think there is a major miscue on this goal by Conor McDavid. He got the puck on his backhand and was at a terrible angle. His backhand was more of a pass than a shot, but it hit Hank’s blocker and then went through him. It happens. Chalk this up to bad luck I guess? Or bad refs, who missed when Kevin Hayes got mauled by Jason Garrison, but called Vlad Namestnikov for daring to backcheck.

That’s a wrap for now. The Rangers are off until Tuesday, when they will play the first of a back to back before having three more days off. The NHL schedule is weird. It’s almost as bad as its officiating.

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