After a playoff-less spring, a subsequent coaching change, and a super-long summer, the Rangers open training camp for the 2025-26 season on Thursday.
New coach Mike Sullivan will be working with a somewhat revamped roster from the group that made the playoffs three straight years (2022-24) and reached the Eastern Conference finals in two of those years. Franchise icon Chris Kreider is gone , traded to Anaheim over the summer, and so too is defenseman K’Andre Miller, who was sent to Carolina in a sign-and-trade deal in July. Preceding them out the door were former captain Jacob Trouba, Kaapo Kakko, Filip Chytil, Ryan Lindgren and others.
Artemi Panarin returns – in the final year of his contract, with no indication that he’ll be signing an extension anytime soon – and Mika Zibaneja