The New York Rangers Blog

Thirty-seven Presidents’ Trophies have been handed out in NHL history. Eight of those winners went on to hoist the Stanley Cup that same spring. The 2023-24 New York Rangers were not one of those eight — and now, two years later, they’ve managed something even more historically dubious: they are

Two missed playoffs in a row. A franchise icon traded for a 20-year-old OHL prospect and some conditional picks that got worse after the Kings got swept. A star defenseman whose commitment to the organization is quietly unresolved. A goalie who just turned 30 with a contract running to 2032-33.

Chris Drury stood up in January and told Rangers fans this wasn’t a rebu...

Two missed playoffs in a row. A franchise icon traded for a 20-year-old OHL prospect and some conditional picks that got worse after the Kings got swept. A star defenseman whose commitment to the organization is quietly unresolved. A goalie who just turned 30 with a contract running to 2032-33.

Chris Drury stood up in January and told Rangers fans this wasn’t a rebu...

The Buffalo Sabres play Game 3 tonight in Montreal, tied 1-1 in the second round of the playoffs, and there is still something slightly disorienting about typing that sentence without it being fiction. Not because they don’t deserve it. They won the Atlantic Division with 109 points. They went 32-6-2 after December 15. They beat the Boston Bruins in six games in the first ro...

The New York Rangers missed the playoffs in 2026. Again. Thirty-four wins, 77 points, last in the Eastern Conference — the first franchise in NHL history to follow a Presidents’ Trophy with back-to-back playoff misses. That’s the franchise that won 55 games and 114 points in 2023-24. Two years later: last place.

Chris Drury stood in front of a microphone on January ...