WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Right wing prospect Brody Lamb signed his entry-level contract with the Rangers, The Post first reported Thursday.
While the contract is set to begin next season, Lamb will report to the Wolf Pack this weekend on an amateur tryout. The Blueshirts believe the 22-year-old, who the organization drafted No. 104 overall in 2021, could come in and compete for a role like Noah Laba did this past training camp.
The Rangers had until Aug. 15 to sign Lamb or he would’ve become an unrestricted free agent.
Lamb served as one of three captains in his senior year at the University of Minnesota this season, in which he tallied 14 goals and 16 assists for a career-high 30 points in 35 games.
Among his Gopher teammates, Lamb ranked second in goals, tied for second in points and ranked third in assists.
Over 152 collegiate games for Minnesota, the 6-foot-1, 185-pound forward posted 91 points (47 goals, 44 assists).
He’s listed as a right wing, but Lamb transitioned to play center for the Gophers.
The Rangers signed prospect Brody Lamb to an entry-level contract on March 12, 2026. Robert Sabo for New York Post
Rangers captain J.T. Miller shed his red noncontact jersey for morning skate ahead of his team’s matchup with the Jets.
While Mike Sullivan ruled him out for Thursday’s 6-3 win over the Jets, the Blueshirts head coach left the door open for Miller to return to the lineup in Minnesota on Saturday.
“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it,” Sullivan said.
Considering how well the new-look top line of Gabe Perreault, Mika Zibanejad and Alexis Lafrenière is performing, it’s hard to imagine Miller slotting into his old spot when he is recovered from his upper-body injury and activated off injured reserve.
On Thursday, Adam Edstrom skated on the left wing of the second line as a possible placeholder for Miller.
“Eddy’s now got a few games under his belt coming off the injury,” Sullivan said. “He’s a big, strong guy, as you know, and he skates really well. I think he has a defensive conscience to his game. He’s hard to play against, just by nature of his physical stature — his size, his skating ability, his reach — and he’s a disruptive player on the forecheck. He can make it hard on defensemen. He can force turnovers, and usually he creates opportunity for himself.
“When you look at the scoresheet every night at the end of games, Eddy has an uncanny way of ending up on the positive side of that. He creates a lot of opportunities. And so we thought maybe we would give him a shot up the lineup and see if he can help us in that capacity.”
Thursday was the fifth straight game Miller has missed, as well as the 14th because of injury this season.
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With 14 goals and 24 assists through 51 games, Miller appears to have been hampered by one injury or another through a good portion of the season.
This is the second upper-body issue the 32-year-old has dealt with this season.
Braden Schneider skated on the left flank of the second power-play unit next to Conor Sheary, Jonny Brodzinski, Will Cuylle and Vladislav Gavrikov on Thursday.
“I’ve talked about his game all year long,” Sullivan said. “I think it’s more about when you look at that second unit, they tend to get the last 25-plus seconds of the power play. It’s nice to have two defensemen on the ice in that circumstance. But also, you know, Vladi up top is good at getting pucks through and Schneids provides a one-time threat on that backside. We don’t have a lot of right-handed shots. So there’s a number of reasons around it, but that’s some of it.”