{"id":154680,"date":"2025-09-19T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154680\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:40:09","slug":"6-nhl-teams-that-will-likely-disappoint-during-the-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154680\/","title":{"rendered":"6 NHL Teams That Will Likely Disappoint During the 2025-26 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Since last December, the New York Rangers have been among the busiest teams when it comes to <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/team\/new-york-rangers\/trades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">player movement<\/a> in the trade and free-agent markets. Unhappy with the club&#8217;s poor start last season, general manager Chris Drury made several notable trades as he attempted to retool his roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Gone are Jacob Trouba, Kaapo Kakko, Filip Chytil, Ryan Lindgren, Reilly Smith, Chris Kreider, and K&#8217;Andre Miller. Their replacements include J.T. Miller, Vladislav Gavrikov, William Borgen, Carson Soucy, Urho Vaakanainen, and Juuso P\u00e4rssinen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Miller, Artemi Panarin, Vincent Trocheck, and emerging power forward Will Cuylle will provide the offensive skill, energy, and leadership. Elite goaltender Igor Shesterkin gives them a chance to win in every game, and former James Norris Trophy winner Adam Fox will anchor the defense corps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">However, questions remain whether forward Mika Zibanejad can regain his high-scoring ways, while winger Alexis Lafreniere&#8217;s long-awaited breakout has yet to happen. Their <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/new-york-rangers\/line-combinations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">checking lines and bottom-three defense<\/a> lack the skill and experience to match up well against deeper clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since last December, the New York Rangers have been among the busiest teams when it comes to player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-154680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}