The New York Rangers will be continuing their road trip on Monday night against the Edmonton Oilers. With New York playing some better hockey of late, the team will be hoping to keep it going. Following a 4-3 win on Saturday against the Seattle Kraken, the Rangers have now won three games in a row, and all of a sudden things are looking up.
One edge that the New York Rangers had coming into the season was in net, where they had a genuine superstar in Igor Shesterkin. The highest-ranked netminder in the NHL, Shesterkin is an elite performer in net.
James Reimer made his New York Rangers debut Monday night against the Los Angeles Kings, but he was pulled after he gave up three goals on eight shots in the opening frame.
James Reimer has signed a one-year deal with the New York Rangers, the team announced on Sunday. Reimer was released from his AHL PTO today with Hartford to make it happen.
Can you name every winner of the Hart Trophy, which honors the most valuable player in the NHL, since 1983?
The New York Rangers looked like a really nice story to start the season, jumping out to a hot start after two consecutive years of utter disappointment.
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.
New York has opened the 2026-27 campaign with a 6-2-0 record, its best start since beginning the 2024-25 season 6-1-1 through eight games. The Rangers suffered a significant setback last Saturday when they learned Igor Shesterkin would miss the remainder of the season after sustaining an injury in Friday’s 3-1 loss to the Washington Capitals.
When the New York Rangers won the 2020 NHL Draft Lottery and landed forward Alexis Lafreniere, the expectation, as it is with any No. 1 overall pick, was that he would become a franchise cornerstone and star-level player.
With Igor Shesterkin done for the season, the New York Rangers are searching for goaltending help, and a few names have surfaced as possible replacement options.
From injuries to a legend announcing this will be his last season in the NHL, the last week was packed with major storylines. Let’s review the biggest headlines and trends from the previous seven days.
The New York Rangers, who were off to a strong start to the season, got some horrible news Saturday afternoon. It was announced that Igor Shesterkin would be out for the season after suffering a lower-body injury in the team’s loss to the Washington Capitals.
The Rangers desperately need at least one more veteran netminder in the bullpen.
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 were bracing for the worst when Igor Shesterkin's right skate crashed into the goal post Friday night. On Saturday, the Rangers found out Shesterkin's season was over, and his absence threatens to derail a promising start for a team coming off missing the playoffs for the past two seasons.
A retired NHL goalie could be answering the call of the New York Rangers for help between the pipes. The Rangers lost star netminder Igor Shesterkin for the rest of the 2026-27 NHL season after he suffered a lower-body injury during Friday’s game against the Washington Capitals at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.
The New York Rangers knew there was a chance the injury to starting goalie Igor Shesterkin was going to be serious.
Replacing Shesterkin with Hellebuyck would give New York a proven starter capable of handling a demanding workload.
New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin will miss the remainder of the season due to a lower-body injury, the team announced Saturday. The news comes one day after the 2021-22 Vezina Trophy winner sustained the injury during the second period of a 3-1 loss against the host Washington Capitals.
The New York Rangers‘ goaltending situation just got even worse. The Rangers announced on Saturday that goaltender Igor Shesterkin will miss the rest of the season with a lower-body injury.
Shesterkin’s injury is a massive blow to a Rangers squad that had gotten off to a solid start to the season.
The New York Rangers’ strong start potentially stopped the moment Igor Shesterkin’s skate hit the post in the second period Friday. The goaltender couldn’t put weight on his right leg and needed help off the ice in a 3-1 loss to Washington.
New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin was helped off the ice with a lower-body injury midway through the second period of Friday’s 3-1 loss to the Washington Capitals at Capital One Arena and did not return.
Igor Shesterkin and the Rangers had gotten off to a nice start to their season. The veteran had won three of his first four starts while the team entered play tonight atop the Eastern Conference. He had even scored his first career goal.
New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin exited in the second period against the host Washington Capitals with a lower-body injury Friday night and will not return.
New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin needed help off the ice after he suffered an injury during Friday’s game against the Washington Capitals. Shesterkin, 30, appeared to fall awkwardly in the crease during a scramble midway through the second period.
More injury news in the NHL: goaltender Igor Shesterkin needed help to leave the ice after an apparent injury, and the New York Rangers will be watching for an update.
After winning four of their first five games things were looking really good for the New York Rangers to start the 2026-27 HL season. As is usually the case when they win, starting goalie Igor Shesterkin has been at the center of a lot of that initial success.
For a century of New York Rangers hockey, no goaltender had scored. On Thursday night at Madison Square Garden, Igor Shesterkin ended that drought. With Tampa Bay’s net empty and 2:34 left, Shesterkin lofted a shot from just above his crease the length of the ice and inside the left post.
New York Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin is the 18th different goaltender to score a goal,
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