There weren’t many bright spots for the New York Rangers during a tumultuous 2025-26 season in which they finished in last place in the Eastern Conference with 77 points.
Will Cuylle is known for his straight-ahead, thowback style of play, with a low-key, no-nonsense personality to match. With another strong season in 2026-27, however, Cuylle could create plenty of drama for the New York Rangers next summer.
If there is one gripe that New York Rangers fans have had since Chris Drury took over as the team president and general manager, it is that they have failed to develop young talent.
It’s August, so the hockey world is essentially on vacation right now. It’s a bit interesting that August appears to be the default vacation month for the NHL, especially when there is still work to be done.
The New York Rangers are hoping the 2026-27 season goes better for them than the previous two seasons have. They are trying to get back to being a playoff team, but as we all know, the game of Hockey is also a game of luck.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
The New York Rangers did a lot of work on their roster this offseason, taking full advantage of the salary cap space they had available to them. Weaponizing their space is something Chris Drury excelled at.
The New York Rangers have had a very busy offseason, and there is a lot of talk about what the outlook for the team is going to be going forward. After two straight years of missing the playoffs, the Rangers were a team that had a lot of areas to address this summer.
Coming off a disappointing season, the New York Rangers are a team that should be better during the 2026-27 campaign. However, they do have a number of
The New York Rangers remain on a mission to have a quick turnaround and truly compete for a Stanley Cup in the coming years. Trying to rebuild on the fly and find the pieces necessary to make that dream a reality, Chris Drury made the Rangers younger and more balanced (especially on defense) this offseason.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
The New York Rangers are projected to have a good amount of cap space to spend next offseason. With the NHL’s salary cap on the rise, the Rangers are projected to have about $35 million available.
The New York Rangers are getting set for the upcoming season, and the hope will be that they are going to be a much-improved team. Coming into the summer, the Rangers were a team that was expected to be aggressive in trying to improve coming off a last-place finish in the Eastern Conference.
Getting into the 50s and 60s in the New York Rangers’ numerical history over their first 100 years starts to yield some vacancies. Three of the 10 uniform numbers from 51 to 60 have never been worn, and only No.
During Alexis Lafreniere’s six seasons with the New York Rangers, he has had some great hot streaks, but he has also had a lot of cold stretches. Last season, he struggled early on but played well on a new line in the second half to end the season on a high note.
There was a lot that didn’t go right for the New York Rangers during the 2025-26 season, but arguably the most disappointing was how poor their production was at the blueline.
Igor Shesterkin of the New York Rangers came in at No. 3 on the NHL’s Network’s list of the League’s top-10 goaltenders for the second straight year. Shesterkin trailed only Connor Hellebuyck of the Winnipeg Jets, who dropped to No.
The New York Rangers are getting prepared for the upcoming season with the summer starting to wind down. However, this is still a franchise that has a ton of question marks, and how the season pans out will be telling. As expected, the summer was a very busy one for the Rangers.
The clock is ticking toward the start of the 2026-27 NHL season. The New York Rangers are just over six weeks away from stepping onto the ice at TD Garden to face the Boston Bruins on Sept.
The New York Rangers recently revealed some major changes that were made to their front office staff. Since Quentin Dolan has taken over operations of the team, more of a focus has been put on sports science.
No member of the New York Rangers wore a number from 41-50 until the early 1980s, when goaltender Eddie Mio donned No. 41. All 10 numbers have been worn by at least two players since then, though no player has played more than 250 regular-season games in any one of them.
After missing the playoffs in 2025, the New York Rangers made a big move, hiring Mike Sullivan to take over as head coach after Peter Laviolette was fired after two seasons with the club.
With the 2026-27 season right around the corner, many players on the New York Rangers are close to reaching new career milestones. With this in mind, here are just four of those players who will likely hit those milestones during this season, or at least get very close to doing so.
The New York Rangers did not spend the offseason behaving like a team willing to wait. Chris Drury changed the roster, surrendered valuable draft capital and placed another bet on a quick return to contention.