NYR News

The Ottawa Senators are reportedly sending their captain Brady Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers for the 9th overall pick and 25th overall pick this year, the Panthers 2029 First and a second round pick in 2030.

The Panthers have the 9th pick in the draft and acquired the 26th pick earlier today.

Tkachuk will join his brother Matthew in Florid and would have had to waive his no-move clause to join the Panthers.

Tkachuk has long been rumored to be a target of Chris Drury and the Rangers.

Pierre LeBrun indicates that Tkachuk gave the Senators a list of four teams, Florida, Carolina, Vegas and Minnesota.

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The Rangers have signed goalie Dylan Garand to a two-year deal.

He was a pending RFA.

Garand will have a cap hit of $875,000 and will be on a two-way contract the first year and a one-way contract the second year. (Baugh)

He was 2-0-1 last season in the NHL with a 1.62 GAA and .948 save percentage.

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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.