When Rangers GM Chris Drury released a letter to the fans last month announcing a retool, he noted that this process could “mean saying goodbye to players that have brought us and our fans great moments over the years.” We’ve already seen one of those players on the move with last week’s trade that saw Artemi Panarin get moved to Los Angeles.
The Olympic break will serve as a reset of sort for the New York Rangers as they look to make the most of the final stretch of the season. While there are plenty of changes they need to make on the ice, there’s also plenty of moves the Rangers need to make off the ice to help the retool.
It’s only been two practices in Milan, and there are still several days before the preliminary round begins with a game against Latvia on Thursday, but it’s looking like New York Rangers stalwarts J.T.
The New York Rangers entered the Olympic break with a clearer view than most NHL teams. They are not pretending they have any semblance of a chance of making the playoffs.
Mike Sullivan and J.T. Miller are both currently in Milan, Italy, focused on helping Team USA capture Olympic gold for the first time since the Miracle on Ice in 1980.
In the lore of the NHL, it's the Stanley Cup-winning teams that are remembered the most from seasons past. Yet, when looking back on the best of the best
Well, that’s officially it for Artemi Panarin on Broadway. Considering the underwhelming return that failed to bring back a first-round draft pick, the New York Rangers may want to prioritize getting premium draft capital back in the next seller moves ahead of the trade deadline.
The New York Rangers have one of the top trade targets in the NHL right now in veteran center Vincent Trocheck. The 32-year-old is a respected locker room presence and one of the most consistent two-way forwards in the NHL.
The Vancouver Canucks made a very hard decision last season when they traded forward J.T. Miller to the New York Rangers. Vancouver made this choice because of the crumbling relationship between Miller and their star forward, Elias Pettersson.
When the United States men’s hockey team opens the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics on Thursday afternoon with their first game against Latvia, you better believe that Derek Stepan’s going to be watching.
The biggest domino has fallen before the NHL’s trade deadline on March 6th, as the New York Rangers shipped star winger Artemi Panarin to the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday for forward prospect Liam Greentree and a conditional third-round draft pick.
An NHL roster freeze is in effect during the three-week Olympic break from Feb 4-22. But that didn’t stand in the way of a veteran player addition to the New York Rangers organization this weekend Travis Dermott signed a PTO with the Hartford Wolf Pack, the Rangers’ affiliate in the American Hockey League, on Saturday.
When this season began, the New York Rangers expected to reach the NHL Winter Olympic break at least competing for a berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, if not solidly ensconced in one.
There was a moment at the end of the New York Rangers victory in the Winter Classic that opened my eyes. Mika Zibanejad had just deposited his third goal of the game, completing the first hat trick in Winter Classic history.
Liam Greentree is keeping some serious company these days. The New York Rangers forward prospect reached 300 points in the Ontario Hockey League, joining the likes of John Tavares, Mitch Marner, Nick Suzuki, and Jason Robertson as one of only 21 players to do so in the past 20 years.
Not that long ago, a young forward named Brennan Othmann was the Big Apple of the New York Rangers eye. Much like new Rangers forward prospect Liam Greentree,
With the New York Rangers now on their Olympic break, all eyes are looking towards the trade deadline and what other moves this team could make. With Artemi Panarin now a Los Angeles King, the next player people are talking about is Vincent Trocheck.
The New York Rangers played their last game before the Olympic break on Thursday night. New York took on the Carolina Hurricanes as they looked to gain some momentum before the league’s pause.
Somewhere on their flight from New York to Milan, don’t you just hope that the coach and captain of the New York Rangers had a long talk? And not just about the immediate task at hand, trying to help the United States win a gold medal at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.
The Seattle Kraken may have been offering over $14 million for Artemi Panarin, well above what the Rangers had been thinking Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet:
With the dust settled on the Artemi Panarin trade and the saga now behind us, it has become clear that he was never realistically going to return the kind of retool-caliber assets the Rangers needed, largely because his no-movement clause limited both leverage and potential destinations.
The New York Rangers made a trio of transactions to prepare their roster for the Olympic break, reassigning forward Anton Blidh and netminder Spencer Martin to their AHL affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack.
It goes without saying that this season has not been kind to the team in Manhattan, but the New York Rangers seem to have no silver linings heading into a league-wide pause.
The Los Angeles Kings' acquisition of Artemi Panarin just before the Olympic roster freeze on Wednesday is a reminder that people forget every year — the no-movement clause (NMC) is ironclad.