Connor McDavid will be in town to face the Rangers, who are bobbing on the playoff cutline at 10-7-4 after a first quarter of the season.
If there is one justification for the NHL schedule matrix, in which every team plays home and away against all 16 non-conference opponents to the detriment of intradivision rivalries and playoff races, it’s that it means No. 97 for the Oilers will be on the Garden ice Saturday afternoon.
McDavid shares the NHL lead with 16 goals and is alone in front with 35 points. The 25-year-old, who struck for a career high 44 goals last season, has just one in his last five games, so he will be hungry. That only will add to the task confronting the Rangers who will be matched against him.
McDavid has 15 points in 10 career games against the Rangers and six in the four games between the clubs since Fox, Trouba, Miller and Panarin joined the Blueshirts and Lindgren stuck with the varsity in 2019-20. “If you’re afraid of being roasted by him, then he’s already beaten you,” Zibanejad told The Post. “You can’t sit back and be scared. You can’t give him open ice. If you do that, he’ll take advantage of that with that speed through the neutral zone.Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
“You always have to be aware of him, but you can’t forget the other guys, especially [Leon] Draisaitl,” Trouba said. “It’s cliché, but it takes a five-man unit to try and slow him down when you can.
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