The Rangers have announced their preseason schedule for the 2026-27 season:
The NHL has cut the preseason from six to four games in exchange for adding two more regular season games. The regular season is also expected to start in late September.
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.
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.
The NHL has announced that the Rangers have the following picks in the 2026 NHL Draft:
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.