First Period:
- Andrei Svechnikov (21) Assists: Mark Jankowski (8)
Second Period:
Third Period:
- Jordan Staal (15) (Empty Net) Assists: Nikolaj Ehlers (29), Jackson Blake (17)
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The Rangers have traded Artemi Panarin to the LA Kings for a conditional third round pick and prospect Liam Greentree. (Schfeter)
He was considered LA’s top prospect.
Greentree, a RW, is 6-3, 216 and was the 26th pick overall in 2024 by LA.
Last season in the OHL he had 49 goals and 70 assists in 64 games. He had 14 goals and 10 assists in 11 playoff games in the OHL.
This season he has 23 goals and 22 assists in 34 games.
Panarin signed a two-year extension worth $11 million per season. (Friedman) He reportedly turned down bigger offers to go to LA. (Seravalli)
The conditions on the draft pick are:
- Conditional 2026 Third Round pick becomes a 2026 Second Round Pick if LA wins one playoff round. The Rangers would get the better of either LA or Columbus’ second round pick.
- The Rangers will also get a conditional 4th round pick in 2028 if LA wins two playoff rounds.
The Rangers are retaining half of Panarin’s salary.
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2/5/26 | Chris Drury said that he was informed “late morning” on Wednesday that the Kings were the only team Panarin would go to. (The Athletic)
Elliotte Friedman writes that Panarin wanted Florida and Tampa Bay involved but he doesn’t think it got close with either team. He said that Panarin’s talks with LA nearly fell apart over the length of the contract and that rumors spread on Tuesday that Panarin was either headed to Carolina and/or another team willing to pay $60 million over four-years. It’s suspected that Seattle was the team that made that big offer but that ultimately Panarin wanted to go to LA and left bigger contract offers on the table.
2/4/26: 12:27PM: Elliotte Friedman said on Sportsnet590 on Wednesday, “there was a lot of noise last night on Panarin…there was an hour there where I thought Panarin was going to happen but I think it was more of a bluff by somebody involved. Obviously things can change at any time today, they are very fluid, but I think Panarin, I definitely think some of the parties involved are trying to say that he’s close in this situation or this situation is winning out to try and see if some of the other teams involved can either bump up their offers or what they are willing to do contract-wise so there was a bit of noise last night. It’s pretty difficult to handicap, for the last 24-48 hours I’ve been chasing a lot of things that turned out to be not quite true or not true. So I think there is a lot of manure flying around with that one.”
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The Rangers have claimed 6-4, 23-year old defenseman Vincent Iorio off of waivers from San Jose.
Iorio was originally a second round pick of Washington in 2021 and was claimed by San Jose off of waivers earlier this season from Washington.
He played 21 games for San Jose this season and had three assists and an average of 16:30 per game.
Prior to this season he played 9 games over two years for Washington, netting one assist and an average of 11:20 per game.
He is a right shot defenseman and an RFA at the end of the season.
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The Rangers lost on Thursday to the Islanders 2-1.