The New York Rangers have struggled a bit after a strong start to the 2026-2027 season. This season was never expected to be a cakewalk, as many mentally prepared for the worst possibilities.
Chris Drury has many flaws as a General Manager. He routinely gives out poor contracts, makes disastrous trades, and fails to build up a prospect pool that any analyst or scout would find promising.
Expectations were not overly high for the New York Rangers entering this season, as general manager Chris Drury spent the offseason in what could be described as an active holding pattern.
Can you name every winner of the Hart Trophy, which honors the most valuable player in the NHL, since 1983?
The New York Rangers begin the 2026-27 season tonight, when they head to Boston to take on the Bruins. After two straight disastrous seasons that led to major shakeups to the roster, the team is hoping this season will see luck turn in their favor.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
The New York Rangers are getting set for the start of the season at the end of the month, and expectations will be higher than they were last year. Following a last-place finish in the Eastern Conference, the pressure will be on to be a better team.
With the start of training camp right around the corner for the New York Rangers, expectations for the team are going to be a bit higher following a successful summer.
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.
As things stand today, let’s prognosticate as to the Rangers opening-night lineup.
The New York Rangers were dreadful in 2025-26, finishing as the worst team in the Eastern Conference. Rangers GM Chris Drury then embarked on the journey to improve the roster.
It was a very rough season for the New York Rangers, who were not only the NHL’s worst club on home ice but also came nowhere close to making the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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.
With how poorly this season went for the New York Rangers, this offseason is going to be a big indicator of where this team wants to go in the future. General manager Chris Drury has stated multiple times that the Rangers are not entering another rebuild and used the term “retool” instead.
As of this writing, the 2026 Trade Deadline is less than 24 hours away, and the New York Rangers have been too quiet. When the Rangers sent out a letter in mid-January signalling a retool, it was thought they would make many moves.
Rangers fans should at least be mildly concerned. Fox is not only their best defenseman and one of their best players, but he is one of the best defensemen in hockey.
The New York Rangers’ 2025-26 season has fallen apart, and as a result, much of the roster could be dismantled ahead of the March 6 NHL trade deadline.
Trocheck has everything that a competitive team would want, including a relatively manageable cap hit.
The New York Rangers’ communications release last week showed the world a couple of things. The first was that the team was headed towards a retool, which was pretty evident to anyone who has watched them this season.
It’s hard to blame New York Rangers fans for being upset. After all, they’ve watched their team go from 114 points and a Presidents’ Trophy two years ago, to last place in the Eastern Conference this season.
The Rangers need to face reality.
Let’s be honest: the New York Rangers’ playoff hopes probably became unrealistic after losing to the bottom-of-the-barrel Vancouver Canucks last month.
It’s been a difficult start to the 2025-26 NHL regular season for the New York Rangers. Through their first eight games, the Rangers are 3-4-1, losing four of their last five games and only scoring more than once during that span.
The New York Rangers changed coaches, captains and reinforced their roster for the 2025-26 season, but the franchise is already thinking about 2026-27.
This offseason is one of, if not the most important, offseasons of general manager (GM) Chris Drury’s time leading the New York Rangers. This will be his
The New York Rangers will continue to be constructed by Chris Drury. On Thursday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, Tyler Yaremchuk and Frank Seravalli discussed Drury’s contract extension with the Rangers and outlined how the team could rebound next season.
After New York Rangers GM Chris Drury signed an extension with the team, rumors started to surface that John Tortorella could be back.
Four days after firing their head coach, the New York Rangers announced on Wednesday that president and general manager Chris Drury has agreed to terms on a multi-year contract extension.
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