{"id":421137,"date":"2026-01-21T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421137\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:45:14","slug":"the-rangers-who-could-get-big-breaks-once-the-dealing-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421137\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rangers who could get big breaks once the dealing ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the time March 7 arrives, and the lingering dust from the previous day\u2019s 3 p.m. trading deadline settles, the Rangers\u2019 roster will look different. Potentially quite different. If it was only going to feature one trade, that wouldn\u2019t have <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/16\/sports\/the-next-steps-for-the-rangers-are-crucial-and-chris-drury-must-heed-lessons-from-last-retool\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">required The Letter 2.0<\/a> from president and general manager Chris Drury last week, where he labeled this next stretch awaiting the Rangers as a \u201cretool\u201d and not a \u201crebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The major question over the next six weeks becomes <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/16\/sports\/where-the-rangers-could-start-their-complete-rebuild-before-nhl-olympic-break\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which players end up leaving<\/a>. But after that, once the deals possibly involving names such as Artemi Panarin and Vincent Trocheck and Brennan Othmann and Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re are potentially made, the Blueshirts\u2019 focus will become figuring out who receives expanded opportunities. Shifts become miniature auditions for youngsters. Games become samples for Drury to determine which pieces could fit into the Rangers\u2019 long-term blueprint.<\/p>\n<p>It could get ugly \u2014 even uglier than it has already been through 50 games \u2014 for the Rangers. But Sports+ looks at some names who could receive, and benefit from, increased chances once the roster changes begin.<\/p>\n<p>Gabe Perreault (20 years old, first-round pick in 2023, 22 career NHL games)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the time March 7 arrives, and the lingering dust from the previous day\u2019s 3 p.m. trading deadline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[19678,35718,11556,4823,385,4892,99,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-421137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-artemi-panarin","9":"tag-brennan-othmann","10":"tag-inside-the-rangers","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421137","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=421137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}