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Rangers' glaring power-play issues are their undoing in loss to Oilers

New York Post·Mollie Walker·about 16 hours ago
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EDMONTON, Alberta — The Rangers hung with an Oilers team that has three of the top five producing skaters in the NHL on Monday night.

Despite two of them landing on the scoresheet — who else but Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl (twice)? — the Blueshirts kept this 3-1 loss relatively low-event and generated spurts of offensive pressure to make this second meeting in nine days a much more evenly matched affair than the first at Madison Square Garden.

As disjointed as their power play has been all season long, however, the lack of production had never so glaringly cost the Rangers like it did Monday night.

The visitors went 0-for-5 with the man advantage, including two in the third period and one with 1:27 left in regulation. The Rangers went without a single shot on goal during the first power play before giving up an empty-net goal to Draisaitl on the second.

After the 4-1 loss to the Oilers on Nov.…

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