The New York Rangers’ 2025–26 season is starting to come off the rails, so as the trade deadline approaches, more names are finding their way into the rumor mill.
It’s official, a real Rangers rebuild is now a must have on Broadway. The New York Rangers are in desperate need to tear it all down. No re-tool on the fly or re-boot of the roster but a real Rangers rebuild, starting from scratch.
This may seem like an odd moment to praise Artemi Panarin and urge others to appreciate him as the greatest free-agent signing in New York Rangers history.
Remember when there was slight optimism going into this season? That was a fun day or two. Fast forward to now, and the Rangers are completely irrelevant.
The New York Rangers are running out of answers after finding yet another way to lose. Two days after being embarrassed in a 10-2 road loss to the Boston Bruins, the Rangers grabbed a two-goal lead in the first 5:31 against the Seattle Kraken at Madison Square Garden on Monday night.
NHL head coaches have to hire good assistants. They have to set an overarching philosophy, juggle lineup configurations, and do the kind of “man management” that is impossible to track statistically.
It didn’t take long for the New York Rangers to get the home crowd up on its feet and cheering Monday night. But by time the final buzzer sounded, those same fans booed the Rangers off the Madison Square Garden ice, following a 4-2 loss to the Seattle Kraken.
The New York Rangers look like a lost franchise more than halfway through the 2026-27 campaign. When they hired two-time Stanley Cup-winning head coach Mike Sullivan, the initial expectation seemed to be that he could engineer a fairly swift turnaround.
The Rangers lines tonight went into a blender, with changes to all four lines as Mike Sullivan tries to get something going for his club. The Blueshirts have given up 15 goals in 2 games since Adam Fox and Igor Shesterkin went down with injuries and are freefalling through the standings.
The NHL trade deadline is less than two months away (March 6), and with the Olympic break—and the subsequent roster freeze—fast approaching, teams are running out of time to decide whether to buy or sell.
Lyle Richardson of Bleacher Report: Naturally, we were destined to be in this position with Artemi Panarin. This time, the New York Rangers are only a few points out of a playoff spot.
A season that was already shaping up to be a letdown for the New York Rangers reached a new nadir over the weekend when the team fell to the Boston Bruins by a 10-2 margin on the road on Saturday.
Former NHL head coach Gerard Gallant will step down as head coach of the KHL’s Shanghai Dragons for the rest of the season, Pierre LeBrun reported Monday.
4:15 p.m.: The Rangers have indeed recalled Othmann to their NHL roster, according to a team announcement. The move returns the Rangers’ 2021 first-round pick back to their NHL roster for the first time in 2026.
The New York Rangers announced today that veteran forward Anton Blidh has been reassigned to the club’s AHL affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack. The move leaves the Rangers without a healthy extra forward on their roster, but Colin Stephenson of Newsday reported that Brennan Othmann could be recalled to the Rangers at some point in the near future.
After an impressive win to start 2026, 5-1 in the Winter Classic over the Florida Panthers, the New York Rangers lost the next two games and find themselves three points out of last in the Eastern Conference.
The NHL trade deadline is still two months away, but rumors will only grow between now and March 6, with past connections resurfacing and making for an interesting story ahead of that date.
The New York Rangers’ struggles continued on Thursday night with a 5–2 loss to the Buffalo Sabres at Madison Square Garden, dropping them to a 20-19-6 record and four off the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.
The New York Rangers activated captain JT Miller from injured reserve on Thursday, clearing him to return to the lineup against the Buffalo Sabres at Madison Square Garden.
After learning he wouldn’t be part of Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics, there may be yet another reason for Adam Fox to wonder whether the New York Rangers truly see him as their long-term cornerstone.
The New York Rangers are in the midst of a second consecutive disappointing season and are near the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings. Making matters worse, they just lost star defenseman Adam Fox and star goalie Igor Shesterkin to lower-body injuries in their 3-2 loss to the Utah Mammoth on Jan.
The New York Rangers may have to find a way to survive without star goaltender Igor Shesterkin. The 30-year-old Russian netminder suffered a lower-body injury during the first period of Monday night’s game between the Rangers and the Utah Mammoth at Madison Square Garden in New York, N.Y.
New York Rangers veteran netminder Jonathan Quick blew his fuse during an unexpected appearance between the pipes on Monday against the Utah Mammoth at Madison Square Garden in New York, N.Y.