NYR News

The Rangers have hired Jay Leach as the new head coach of the Hartford Wolf Pack.

The Rangers fired Grant Potulny after two seasons as the head coach in Hartford earlier in the offseason.

The Rangers interviewed Leach to be their head coach when they hired Peter Laviolette.

Leach was an assistant with Boston the past two years and when the Rangers interviewed him he had been an assistant with Seattle. Prior to that he had coached Boston’s AHL team for four seasons.

Mike Sullivan hired Leach for his first coaching job when Sullivan was the AHL coach with Pittsburgh before he was promoted to join the Penguins.

He played 70 NHL games across five seasons and 499 AHL games across 11 seasons.

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The Rangers will have the fifth overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft after Toronto won the first lottery drawing and San Jose won the second drawing.

The Rangers had the third best odds to win one of the lottery drawings.

Adam Rotter: They were right there for number one. They needed a 9 or a 14 and it came up 12 and that meant that the Maple Leafs won the lottery and bumped the Rangers back one spot to 4.

They had two chances again when the last ball was about to come up and move up to number two but it didn’t come up their way and so they will now select 5th.

The Rangers should have a chance to get one of the top defensemen in the draft but it’s possible that center Caleb Malholtra or Swedish winger Ivar Stenberg could drop to them if San Jose and Chicago both go defense. Vancouver would likely select one of Malholtra or Stenberg and that could leave the other one for the Rangers.  If Malholtra and Stenberg are both gone then defense should be the easy call. There are a bunch of top defensive prospects and it will be on the Rangers and their scouting staff to figure out which one fits the best.

With Calgary’s win over LA last night, the Rangers moved up to having the third best lottery at 11.5%.

The Rangers and Flames both finished with records of 34-39-9 but Calgary had two more regulation wins to win the tiebreaker.

The Rangers will pick either #1 if they win the first lottery drawing, #2 if they win the second lottery drawing, #3 if Vancouver and Chicago win both lottery drawings, #4 if a team below the Rangers wins a lottery drawing and #5 if two teams below the Rangers win the lottery drawings.

The Rangers ended the season 6-4 in their last 10 games and 12-10-3 since the Olympic break.

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First Period: 

• Tye Kartye (7) Assists: Mika Zibanejad (44), Vladislav Gavrikov (21)

Second Period: 

• Tye Kartye (8) Assists: J.T. Miller (35), Conor Sheary (11)
• Gabe Perreault (12) Assists: Will Cuylle (18), Tye Kartye (14)
• Oliver Bjorkstrand (12) Assists: Scott Sabourin (4), Mitchell Chaffee (1)
• Mika Zibanejad (34) (Power Play) Assists: Alexis Lafreniere (33), J.T. Miller (36)

Third Period: 

• Corey Perry (17) Assists: Zemgus Girgensons (11), Emil Lilleberg (8)

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Mika Zibanejad was voted the Rangers 2025-26 Team MVP by the media and the 2025-26 Players’ Player Award by his teammates.

The Players’ Player Award has been given annually since the conclusion of the 1958-59 season and recognizes the Ranger who, as selected by his teammates, “best exemplifies what it means to be a team player.”

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