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Posted at 1:45 PM EST.

7:05 PM EST. The Rangers have won 10 of its last 11 contests at Madison Square Garden, including a 5-2 triumph over New Jersey on Saturday while the Stars have dropped three in a row and lost to Vegas on Saturday by a score of 5-3. Dallas will also play its fourth game in six nights here so along with current form of both teams (good for New York and poor for Dallas) the Rags have more market appeal. Wins and losses influence everything. Everything is great when a team is winning, like the Rags are but masked beneath that is a team that is beatable on their best night. Dallas has fewer wins and points than the Rags but under the hood, there is no comparison to which team is superior and it’s not the Rags.

From November 10 to the present or over the past month, New York ranks 27th in Corsi For % while the Stars rank ninth. In Corsi Against over the same span, Dallas ranks third best in the league while the Rags rank third worst or 29th. The Rangers however, rank second in PDO over that span, meaning they have been the luckier team, not the better one, by a wide margin. The Rags have not felt the loss of Mika Zibanejad on the scoreboard yet because they continue to win but he’s an impact center whose injury hurts this team. We could not care less that the Stars will be playing their fourth game in six nights here, as they had yesterday off and one day of rest is plenty to prepare for any game. Furthermore, Madison Square Gardens is a venue that players get jacked up to play in and lastly, the Stars are the better team taking back a price

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