Rangers vs. Oilers: Have a Miller
The bottom six keeps producing, the top six keeps sputtering, and Noah Laba keeps making noise.
- Once again, my loyal readers, there is much good and much bad to take from this one. So let's take hands and go through these woods of confusion together.
- The good: The Rangers finally got, what I would consider, a bonafide win against a quality opponent where it really did feel like all was lost. J.T. Miller talked about how it was a good thing to build confidence, gushed about the depth scoring, and my second son Noah Laba. These moments do go a long way to show there is something here with this team that can be replicated over and over again in a playoff series.
#NYR captain J.T. Miller: “The third period was great. I didn’t have my best today. Obviously, changed the lines up a little bit, trying to spark something. We just had so many guys contribute. [Noah Laba] was unbelievable today. You see Rads chip in again, Schneids. We need that…
— Mollie Walker (@MollieeWalkerr) October 31, 2025
- Now the bad: Almost everything in that gushing review from Miller is spot-on true. Once again the Rangers had the bottom six create scoring chances and actual goals. Once again the Rangers needed guys who are not normally on the scoresheet putting up numbers. That coupled with a toothless power play and a top-six that very simply can't put the puck in the back of the net is a long term problem that will not win playoff series.
- That's not a shot at the bottom six, either. If Taylor Raddysh wants to keep shooting at 33% for the rest of his Rangers' tenure he is more than welcome to. I'll take every goal Brayden Schneider and Jonny Brodzinski want to score with a smile on my face. The problem is, for the most part, it's been the Rangers' only actual source of night-in-and-night-out offense. That part is what's not OK.
