The Rangers have signed AHL forward Anton Blidh to a two-year extension.
Blidh was acquired for Gustav Rydahl and had seven goals and four assists in 17 regular season games and two goals and five assists in nine AHL playoff games.
He has four goals and eight assists in 84 career NHL games.
The deal has an NHL cap hit of $775,000 per season and an AHL salary of $350,000 per season.
The Rangers have traded 2021 third round pick, 65th overall, Jayden Grubbe to Edmonton for a fifth round pick in the 2023 draft.
Grubbe, a center, had 19 goals and 49 assists in 64 game for Red Deer this season and 2 goals and 14 assists in 12 playoff games.
The Rangers let other teams know in April that they weren’t going to be signing Grubbe by the June 1 deadline. (Seravalli)
Grubbe was the second player, after Brennan Othmann, that was drafted in Chris Drury’s first draft as GM.
With Dallas defeating Seattle last night, the Rangers will officially have the 23rd pick overall in the 2023 Draft.
The Rangers also have Colorado’s third round pick and their own sixth round pick and Winnipeg’s sixth round pick.
Larry Brooks tweets that the Rangers have also fired assistant coaches Mike Kelly and Jim Midgley.
Kelly has been with Gerard Gallant since Gallant coached in the QMJHL.
Midgley had previously been a coach in the QMJHL.
Gord Murphy’s future will be determined by the next head coach. Murphy has been with the Rangers as both an assistant with Hartford and in the NHL since 2019. (Brooks)
Larry Brooks writes in the NY Post that Joel Quenneville will not be a candidate to replace Gerard Gallant.
Quenneville has not been reinstated and Gary Bettman said on Friday that “at the appropriate time there will need to be some discussion about where things have been and where things are and whether or not it’s appropriate to return.”
Chris Drury said that he wants to be as “thorough” as he can be and that the focus isn’t on a “specific style or type of coach, but finding “the right fit.”
On Saturday, Elliotte Friedman was asked about potential candidates to replace Gerard Gallant, on the NHL Network, and said “well, I think a lot of us are kind of wondering about Joel Quenneville. Right now, as I understand it, Joel Quenneville has not been officially reinstated and I do think at some point in time he’s going to meet with the NHL and talk about if this is the right time to do it. He did speak to the AHL coaches about a month or two ago about some of the courses he’s taken and some of the things he’s done to work his way back. I know he’s been in contact with Kim Davis from the NHL about coming back, but I think there has to be a formal process here and until we get any kind of ruling or clarity on Joel Quenneville not being allowed to return, I think a lot of the search will be around his name.”