{"id":411634,"date":"2026-01-16T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411634\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:26:07","slug":"sources-rangers-wont-offer-artemi-panarin-a-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411634\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Rangers won&#8217;t offer Artemi Panarin a contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday afternoon, Rangers President &amp; GM Chris Drury released a letter to the team\u2019s fans stating \u201cno one in the organization is happy with what has transpired,\u201d bringing New York to \u201ca retool built around our core players and prospects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will not be a rebuild,\u201d the letter added.<\/p>\n<p>According to several sources, before releasing the letter, Drury met individually with members of the leadership group and addressed the team as a whole. As part of this retool process, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/artemi-panarin\/019e74ad-95fb-478a-bff7-b549fceadabf\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"019e74ad-95fb-478a-bff7-b549fceadabf\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Artemi Panarin<\/a> was informed that he will not be offered a contract extension, and that Drury was prepared to work with him and agent Paul Theofanous to trade the winger anywhere he wishes to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neither Drury nor Theofanous could be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Panarin has a full no-move clause and could, in theory, play out the season. But the decision brings clarity, giving him seven weeks before the trade deadline to consider where he could try to win the Stanley Cup this season, or extend long-term.<\/p>\n<p>There are a ton of storylines to follow now that the Rangers are changing course. But Panarin\u2019s will be the biggest.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday afternoon, Rangers President &amp; GM Chris Drury released a letter to the team\u2019s fans stating \u201cno one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-411634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411634","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=411634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}