{"id":152550,"date":"2025-09-18T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152550\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:40:09","slug":"panarin-focused-on-this-season-with-rangers-wont-talk-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152550\/","title":{"rendered":"Panarin focused on this season with Rangers, won&#8217;t talk contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREENBURGH, N.Y. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/artemi-panarin-8478550\" title=\"Artemi Panarin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artemi Panarin<\/a> is focusing on his preparation for this season and doesn&#8217;t want to publicly discuss his contract situation, the New York Rangers forward said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Panarin is entering the final season of a seven-year, $81.5 million contract he signed with the Rangers on July 1, 2019, the last time he was an unrestricted free agent. The 33-year-old can become a UFA on July 1, 2026, and was non-committal on if he feels it to be important to re-sign with New York before or during the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s obviously good for everyone to feel that security, but I&#8217;m not in my first year in hockey so I&#8217;m used to being in those situations, not every year but it is what it is right now,&#8221; Panarin said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not complaining right now. I&#8217;m ready to work hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Panarin has led the Rangers in scoring in each of his first six seasons with them, including an NHL career-high 120 points (49 goals, 71 assists) in 2023-24. He is fourth in the League since 2019-20 with 550 points (186 goals, 364 assists) in 430 games. He has 119 more points than any other Rangers player during that stretch, ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mika-zibanejad-8476459\" title=\"Mika Zibanejad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mika Zibanejad<\/a>&#8216;s 431, and had 89 points (37 goals, 52 assists) in 80 games last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENBURGH, N.Y. &#8212; Artemi Panarin is focusing on his preparation for this season and doesn&#8217;t want to publicly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-152550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}