{"id":334710,"date":"2025-12-07T08:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/334710\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:34:15","slug":"new-york-rangers-place-heavyweight-defenseman-on-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/334710\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers place heavyweight defenseman on waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>PUBLICATION<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/collaborators\/tom-banks\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Banks<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDecember 6, 2025\u00a0\u00a0(5:58 PM)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/621558.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Brandon Scanlin of the New York Rangers.\" title=\"Brandon Scanlin of the New York Rangers.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: NHL.com<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Scanlin has spent the last four seasons in the AHL with the Hartford Wolf Pack, and now in a surprise move, the Rangers have waived him.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Rangers are off to a very inconsistent start in 2025\/26, and with the team looking to bounce back from a rough campaign a season ago, they need to steady the ship moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>That likely means the team will be looking to shake things up, and while we&#8217;re yet to see a blockbuster trade, General Manager Chris Drury has made one surprise move on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>26-year old blue liner placed on waivers<\/p>\n<p>According to Elliotte Friedman, the Rangers have placed talented 26-year old defenseman Brandon Scanlin <a href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/waiver-wire\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on waivers<\/a>, with the formerly un-drafted blue liner not appearing in a game for the team this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario native has spent the last four seasons with the Rangers AHL affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack, tallying 20 goals and 45 points over that time, but with his size (6-foot-4, 222 pounds), he&#8217;s not in the lineup in the AHL to be a scorer.<\/p>\n<p>Scanlin suffered an injury in training camp, and has been rehabbing down in Hartford thus far, and with the team looking to re-assign him to their AHL affiliate, he will be a major boost for their playoff hopes down there.<\/p>\n<p>As for the chances he gets picked up, it&#8217;s unlikely as plenty of teams believe they can find this type of production with more experience in the NHL elsewhere, but given how intriguing his size and talents are, there&#8217;s always a chance that a team looks to take a shot on him.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on House Of Hockey<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>11 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a075 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>New York Rangers place heavyweight defenseman on waivers<\/p>\n<p>Was this a good move for the Rangers?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUBLICATION Tom Banks December 6, 2025\u00a0\u00a0(5:58 PM) Photo credit: NHL.com Brandon Scanlin has spent the last four seasons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[169086,169087,1612,4823,385,150411,99],"class_list":["post-334710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-brandon-scanlin","tag-hartford-wolf-pack","tag-ice-hockey","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-waivers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}