3 New York Rangers Storylines to Follow in 2025-26
The New York Rangers are going to be one of the more interesting teams to follow this season. Two seasons ago, this team won the Presidents’ Trophy and made it to Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final.
Last season, they were supposed to build off that success, but they instead went on a downward spiral that tanked their season, and they missed the playoffs completely. Now, after a full offseason of rest, trades, and free agent signings, the Rangers are hoping for better luck this season.
In this piece, we are going to go over three key storylines to follow, and maybe when the season is over, we can look back on these and figure out if they had a positive or negative impact on the team throughout the season
Last season was a complete and utter disaster for the Rangers and their fanbase. A season that started with hope quickly turned into one full of negativity and poor play. So many players who had been part of the team for years, like Barclay Goodrow, Kaapo Kakko, Filip Chytil, and even the captain, Jacob Trouba, were sent out the door, and now, the core of the team looks completely different.
So much off-ice drama impacted how they performed on the ice, and it led to them missing the playoffs a season after winning the Presidents’ Trophy as the best regular-season team in the league.
They now hold the honor of being the only franchise to have two different teams go from best in the regular season to missing the playoffs, the 1992-93 and 2024-25 Rangers.
