{"id":102574,"date":"2026-01-16T20:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102574\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:05:11","slug":"chris-drury-promises-retool-for-rangers-in-latest-letter-to-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102574\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Drury promises &#8216;retool&#8217; for Rangers in latest letter to fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers are giving fans a sense of deja vu.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Chris Drury addressed a letter to Blueshirts faithful Friday \u2014 echoing a similar message sent out in 2018 \u2014 detailing the franchise\u2019s plans in the midst of what is becoming a lost season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our position int he standings and injuries to key players this season, we must be honest and realistic about our situation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYRangers\/status\/2012230949275152435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Drury wrote<\/a>. \u201cWe are not going to stand pat \u2014 a shift will give us the ability to be smart and opportunistic as we retool the team. This will not be a rebuild. This will be a retool build around our core players and prospects.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3781965;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38203842\" width=\"813\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/new-york-rangers-gm-chris-111616280_0d3674.jpg\" alt=\"New York Rangers GM Chris Drury during a press conference.\" class=\"wp-image-38203842\"  \/>Rangers GM Chris Drury, during a press conference. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will target players that bring tenacity, skill, speed, and a winning pedigree with a focus on obtaining young players, draft picks, and cap space to allow us flexibility move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Letter 2.0 signifies a seemingly sell off for the Rangers, with rising free agent Artemi Panarian, veteran Vincent Trocheck and others likely headed to new teams before the season is over.<\/p>\n<p>Losers of their last five, the Rangers are in the Eastern Conference basement at 20-22-6.<\/p>\n<p>They play The Flyers on Saturday in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers are giving fans a sense of deja vu. General manager Chris Drury addressed a letter to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19692,44316,9,11,10,541,539,319,11920],"class_list":["post-102574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-artemi-panarin","tag-chris-drury","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-vincent-trocheck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}