Rangers activate Corey Seager off IL ahead of game vs. Blue Jays

A five-time all-star is set to return for the finale of the Blue Jays-Rangers series.

EDMONTON — Lester “Baby Face” Nelson was a notorious gangster and bank robber in the ’20s and ’30s who hung with one of the great shooters of his day, John Dillinger.

Ryan “Baby Face” Nugent-Hopkins is a notorious (penalty) killer currently robbing the Dallas Stars of their Stanley Cup dreams, who runs with one of the great shooters of the current day.

Leon Draisaitl.

“He’s the best player in this series,” Draisaitl declared after Nugent-Hopkins delivered two sweet assists in a 4-1 thriller (two Oilers empty-netters) that sends Edmonton to a Game 5 in Dallas, just one win away from a return trip to the Stanley Cup Final.

Nugent-Hopkins, the longest-serving Oiler whose playoff beard takes us all back to our high school yearbooks, has at least two points in every game of this series, and nine in total. He put one on Draisaitl’s tape for the game-opening goal from Draisaitl’s office, then made a silky move to feed Corey Perry for the game-winner, both on the powerplay.

Nobody talked about Nugent-Hopkins when this series opened. But let’s face it, on a team with Connor McDavid, Draisaitl, Evan Bouchard and others, we don’t spill a lot of ink over RNH at any time of year.

Until he outplays Mikko Rantanen, Jason Robertson, Jamie Benn and Roope Hintz by a country mile, that is, or sits with nine points in four games while Tyler Seguin leads the entire Stars roster with three.

With Florida and Edmonton each choking out their opponents here in the Conference Finals, Nugent-Hopkins leads Round 3 in assists (seven), points (nine), even strength points (five) and plus-minus (plus-six), fronting an Oilers penalty kill that gave up three goals in Game 1 and has gone seven-for-eight in the rest of the series.

“He touches every part of the game you can think of,” Draisaitl said. “Nuggy, in a way, sacrifices a lot of offence throughout the year for doing everything the right way, and being in the right position. Doing all the little things that a lot of guys don’t want to do. We all know that he’s capable of putting up numbers, of scoring, and making great plays.

“Right now, it’s everything at once. It’s clicking, and he’s been the best player in the series.”

How many first overall draft picks has this franchise been granted over the years? Answer: three in a row from 2010-12 and McDavid in ’15, all different guys with different ceilings.

Taylor Hall is slugging it out in Carolina still, a viable support scorer who will play his 1,000th game one day in his seventh uniform, for a Hurricanes team that can’t quite figure it out.

Nail Yakupov barely played, and McDavid well, you might have hear