While the New York Rangers underperformed in the 2024-25 season, there is reason for optimism in 2025-26. This article will ...

During a dysfunctional Rangers season, Laviolette was the coach who benched current Kraken winger Kaapo Kakko. Kakko told the New York media he wasn’t the worst member of the struggling team and ...

Less than two weeks later, they traded onetime prized prospect forward Kaapo Kakko to the Seattle Kraken for defenseman Will Borgen. On Jan. 31, the Rangers signaled their intent for a playoff ...

Players like Alexis Lafreniere, Kaapo Kakko, Filip Chytil, Lias Andersson and Vitali Kravtsov were supposed to be the core of a championship team after being high first-round picks during their ...

The New York Rangers fired coach Peter Laviolette on Saturday after the team finished out of the playoffs one year after they won the Presidents' Trophy as the top regular-season team. "After ...

Less than an hour after firing Peter Laviolette, New York Rangers president and general manager Chris Drury acknowledged there was blame to spread around, meeting with the media Saturday and ...

The New York Rangers announced Saturday that they have fired coach Peter Laviolette after the team failed to make the playoffs for the first time since the 2020-21 season. New York entered the ...

Peter Baugh (@Peter_Baugh) April 19, 2025 High-profile moves, such as trading Jacob Trouba to Anaheim and Kaapo Kakko to Seattle, and benching Chris Kreider, also failed to ignite the roster.

The New York Rangers are a franchise that has routinely underachieved throughout its history, and this season was certainly no exception. The humiliating season the team produced is further ...