RANGERS RUNDOWN The New York Rangers are back at The Garden on Saturday night for a matchup against the Montreal Canadiens (7:00 PM - TV: MSG - Radio: ESPN 1050 AM). The Rangers will hold their fourth Centennial theme night,

Sullivan pointed out that with the NHL’s points system, where teams get two points for a win, and one for an overtime or shootout loss, it is difficult to create separation between teams battling for position in the standings. So his message to the team is to just worry about your own games, and not your competition’s.

Urho Vaakanainen drew back into the lineup for the first time since Nov. 26 in Saturday night’s 5-4 overtime win against the Canadiens, after the Finnish blueliner was a healthy scratch in the previous seven games to make it 14 times so far this season.

Noah Laba , Artemi Panarin and Will Cuylle scored, Connor Sheary and Matthew Robertson each had two assists, and Igor Shesterkin made 13 saves for the Rangers (16-13-4), who snapped a three-game losing streak.

The New York Rangers could use another star and should make a big push for Nashville Predators forward Ryan O'Reilly.

There is momentum for the league to have more games in which both home and road teams wear solid-colored jerseys.

Two teams in the bottom half of the Eastern Conference standings meet when the New York Rangers (15-13-4, 11th in conference) host the Montreal Canadiens (16-11-3, ninth) at Madison Square Garden on Saturday at 7 p.