It started with so much hope surrounding No. 2 overall selection Kaapo Kakko, who had flashes but was often buried in the bottom six and never quite blossomed in New York. His relatively ...

Four players — Kaapo Kakko, Jimmy Vesey, Zac Jones and Calvin de Haan — spoke out to express their issues with their role at different points of the season. While Kakko is beginning his ...

Mika Zibanejad of the New York Rangers struggled defensively this season (Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers) While Zibanejad, Lafreniere, and Miller struggled, Kaapo Kakko was a bright spot for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Will Borgen: Borgen is a bit of a bigger sample size than other additions because he was brought in weeks before the deadline in the Kaapo Kakko trade. He came in and played well, earning himself ...