{"id":439305,"date":"2026-01-26T21:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439305\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:19:09","slug":"rangers-on-verge-of-trading-carson-soucy-to-islanders-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439305\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers on verge of trading Carson Soucy to Islanders: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The New York Rangers are on the verge of trading defenseman Carson Soucy to the Islanders, two league sources told The Athletic. Joe Hrycych \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 The New York Rangers are on the verge of trading defenseman Carson Soucy to the New York Islanders, two league sources told The Athletic. The 6-foot-4 Soucy, a left shot, is a defensive-minded defenseman capable of helping a contender in a bottom-four role.<\/p>\n

The Rangers\u2019 return for Soucy has not yet been confirmed. The trade has yet to be formally announced or processed by the NHL as the teams finalize the details, with one source indicating that the 31-year-old is expected to be held out of Monday night\u2019s game for roster management purposes. New York is scheduled to host the Boston Bruins at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

New York acquired Soucy from Vancouver at the 2025 trade deadline in hopes of being a contender for the playoffs in the 2025-26 season. That hasn\u2019t happened. The Rangers are last in the Eastern Conference,\u00a0and president and general manager Chris Drury recently sent a letter<\/a> to fans announcing the club was entering a \u201cretool.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot totally surprised, just kind of where we\u2019re at,\u201d Soucy said Jan. 20 when asked about the team\u2019s direction. \u201cMore disappointed that I think we\u2019ve underachieved this year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Rangers sent the Canucks the San Jose Sharks\u2019 2025 third-round pick (acquired in a previous trade with the Vegas Golden Knights), which turned out to be No. 65. His additional year of term at a $3.25 million cap hit presumably boosted the price New York had to pay.<\/p>\n

Soucy has eight points in 46 games this season and has had a positive Defensive Rating, per colleague Dom Luszczyszyn\u2019s model. The Rangers were counting on him bouncing back after a difficult end to his Vancouver tenure, and he has, for the most part, been solid in 2025-26.<\/p>\n

The Islanders have been one of the surprises of the NHL this season and are currently third in the Metro. In Soucy, first-year general manager Mathieu Darche will get a defensive reinforcement on the left side. Alexander Romanov has been out since November with right shoulder surgery that was expected to sideline him for five to six months.<\/p>\n

The Soucy deal will be only the fourth between the Rangers and Islanders in the clubs\u2019 history and the first since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Rangers are on the verge of trading defenseman Carson Soucy to the Islanders, two league…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3617,575,85],"class_list":["post-439305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439305","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=439305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}