2025-2026 Record: 34-39-9 (8th in Metro, 30th in NHL)
Last Poll’s Results: 2.55
Top stories last week:
- In this week’s Patreon post (subscribe here!), Dave talked how he would approach the offseason if he were GM of the Rangers.
- Live From the Blue Seats had three recordings this week.
- First we discussed the Brady Tkachuk trade and what it meant for the Rangers.
- On Friday we spoke about Mason McTavish and the 5th overall pick.
- And finally last night we spoke about optimism following the draft.
- Dave and Brandon did a point/counterpoint on Tkachuk and the Rangers. The takeaway is there is no savior coming, the Rangers need to fix this mess themselves.
- There were a bunch of rumors this week:
- Ottawa kicked tires on Alexis Lafreniere. He’s not getting traded.
- The Rangers may have been willing to trade down from 5th overall.
- Rangers were in big on Bowen Byram.
- The Rangers and Sabres have been discussing a Vincent Trocheck trade.
- As of Thursday, there were no trades but it wasn’t time to panic.
- The Rangers were in on Mason McTavish as well, before his trade. He was the best trade rumor thus far.
- The story of the week is naturally the draft, where the Rangers had a strong Day 1, taking Alberts Smits in the first round, and an even better Day 2.
- The Rangers made three trades:
- Brett Berard to Montreal for AHL defenseman William Trudeau.
- Adam Edstrom to Nashville, with thoughts.
- Multiple draft picks to Vegas for Pavel Dorofeyev, then signed to a massive contract.
- Dave gave his thoughts on Day 1 and the Dorofeyev trade.
- Dave gave his thoughts on Day 2.
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