{"id":268605,"date":"2025-11-07T21:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/268605\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:39:11","slug":"metro-notes-panarin-gostisbehere-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/268605\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Notes: Panarin, Gostisbehere, Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Rangers had a difficult first month of the 2025-26 season, and the primary reason has been the team\u2019s inability to consistently put the puck in the net. They rank last in the NHL in goals scored per game with just 2.21, and a notable reason for their struggles has been the performance of star winger Artemi Panarin<\/a>. Panarin is usually the Rangers\u2019 offensive engine, but he has just seven points in 14 games this season, with four of them coming in a single game. The Athletic\u2019s Vince Z. Mercogliano reported<\/a> on Panarin\u2019s struggles in more detail, with Panarin telling the reporter his struggles have \u201creally kind of snowballed.\u201d He said \u201cI missed training camp, had a couple (injury) issues. I wasn\u2019t feeling right from a conditioning standpoint in the first couple games. I started getting frustrated right away, and then it kind of goes into the contract and all that stuff in my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Panarin himself noted, his contract status as a pending unrestricted free agent looms large over his 2025-26 season. Mercogliano reported that \u201cthere have been brief negotiations\u201d between Panarin\u2019s camp, led by Paul Theofanous, and the Rangers, but that those talks have \u201cstalled\u201d lately. It\u2019s been reported previously that the Rangers are \u201cin no rush\u201d to make a commitment to Panarin, who at 34 years old is staring down the possibility that this could be the last big contract of his NHL career. In order for him to maximize that deal, he\u2019ll need to step up his production. Panarin ended the 2023-24 season with 120 points, so he\u2019s shown recently that he can be among the top scorers in the NHL. For him to position himself best for his next contract, he\u2019ll need to find a way to rediscover that form.<\/p>\n

Other notes from the Metropolitan Division:<\/p>\n

The Carolina Hurricanes announced today<\/a> that defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere<\/a> has been placed on injured reserve, and that the IR placement is retroactive to Oct. 28. Gostisbehere was injured in the team\u2019s Oct. 28 game against the Vegas Golden Knights, and hasn\u2019t played since. The veteran was off to a strong start to the season before his injury, scoring seven points in six games. There remains no firm timeline for Gostisbehere to return, and without Gostisbehere to run the team\u2019s top power-play unit, the team has had to rely on veteran Sean Walker<\/a>, who has five points through 13 games.
\nNew Jersey Devils star blueliner Dougie Hamilton<\/a> left last night\u2019s victory over the Montreal Canadiens with an injury, and no further update on Hamilton\u2019s status was provided. Today, Devils team reporter Amanda Stein relayed word<\/a> from head coach Sheldon Keefe that Hamilton remains under evaluation today, and there is at this point no additional detail on the player\u2019s status. Hamilton is a key contributor to what has been a strong Devils team so far this season. He ranks No. 2 among Devils defensemen in ice time, just behind Luke Hughes<\/a>, and is tied with Hughes for second on the team in defensive scoring with seven points in 14 games. The 32-year-old is playing out a $9MM AAV contract that runs through the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Rangers had a difficult first month of the 2025-26 season, and the primary reason has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[8742,49,48,748,31687,749,751,448,36388,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-268605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-artemi-panarin","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","12":"tag-dougie-hamilton","13":"tag-new-jersey-devils","14":"tag-new-york-rangers","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-shayne-gostisbehere","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268605","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=268605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}