10/31/25 | Elliotte Friedman said on 32 Thoughts, “Panarin, you know, is going to go for the biggest deal he can get….”
Pierre LeBrun wrote at The Athletic that he thinks Panarin will try and go for “as much term as possible.”
10/28/25 | On Insider Trading, Pierre LeBrun said “with a new head coach behind the bench in Mike Sullivan, the Rangers are not in a rush to get into a more serious place of discussions with Panarin. There is lots of time between now and July 1st but I think the Rangers want to see what kind of season this is as a team after last years disappointment before they decide what to do with a pending UFA that they feel has done a lot for them. They have a lot respect for him. But if an when they do start those talks in a more meaningful way, I’ll say this, I think term could be an issue here. He turns 34 this week and I don’t think he’s going to settle for a short-term deal if the Rangers come at him with that.”
10/17/25 | Arthur Staple tweeted that the Rangers are still trying to get Panarin signed past this season even though he reportedly turned down one offer.
9/25/25 : On 32 Thoughts, Elliotte Friedman spoke about Artemi Panarin and said “Panarin is up and Anze Kopitar, who just announced his retirement, he had signed 10-years ago, an eight-year deal worth $10 million per year. At the end of that deal the LA Kings went to him and said ‘we need you to take a little bit less and it will help us win and Kopitar did that at 2×7.”
He added, “At some point this past offseason the Rangers had that kind of conceptual discussion with Panarin, ‘is there a way you could do for the Rangers what Kopitar did for the Kings’ and, obviously, at this point in time it hasn’t happened. I don’t know where it’s going to go or if it’s going to be a possibility but I do know that the two sides had the conversation and at this point Panarin is unsigned. We’ll see where that one goes.”
Asked if the Rangers are willing to enter the season without Panarin under contract, Friedman said “I would say that last year the Rangers going into the season with Shesterkin and then getting it done, probably at a higher number than they hoped to, says to me that they went through it once and will handle it a second time if they have to.”
9/25/25 | Adam Rotter: Obviously this would be the best thing for the Rangers, extending Panarin at less than market value, but I’m not so sure Panarin will go for it. But so much about Panarin’s potential next contract comes with the idea that Connor McDavid, Jack Eichel and Kirill Kaprizov are all slated to be free agents at the same time. The Rangers likely approached Panarin with a contract, or at least with a concept that would allow them to keep him and possibly still go after one of the bigger free agents. But Panarin, depending on how he plays this season, is likely still at least a $10 million dollar player on a 2-3 year deal. Are the Rangers proposing a bigger haircut on a short-term deal or would they be willing to go into the 4-5 year range if it meant Panarin was dropping below $9 or so million?
10/28/25 | Adam Rotter: It certainly makes sense to wait a bit with how the season has started, but I still think that ultimately if Panarin wants to remain a Ranger that they will find a way to make it work. But how long is too long to wait before engaging in further discussions? If the Rangers get straightened out, start scoring and Panarin resembles the player he has been then the Rangers can probably string this out for a while. But if the Rangers continue to struggle then the focus will not be on an extension for Panarin but on whether he’d be willing to waive his no-move to be a rental at the trade deadline. For an extension to take place then Panarin would likely have to give some on his cap hit in exchange for more years.
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