{"id":432282,"date":"2026-01-27T07:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/432282\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:04:06","slug":"islanders-acquire-carson-soucy-in-rare-trade-with-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/432282\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders acquire Carson Soucy in rare trade with Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Islanders<\/a> acquired defenseman Carson Soucy<\/a> from the New York Rangers<\/a> for a 2026 third-round pick, it was announced Monday night.<\/p>\n

It’s only the fourth time the two in-state rivals have completed a trade, and the second time in the past 50 years.<\/p>\n

Soucy was scratched<\/a> from Monday’s 4-3 overtime win<\/a> against the Boston Bruins<\/a> at Madison Square Garden for roster management reasons.<\/p>\n

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Rangers general manager Chris Drury spent a third-round pick when he acquired Soucy from the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n

Soucy, a 6-foot-4 left shot, is in the final year of a contract paying him $3.25 million annually.<\/p>\n

The Islanders, who have been without Alexander Romanov<\/a> on the left side since he had shoulder surgery in November, have performed well under first-year GM Mathieu Darche and are in third place in the Metro Division.<\/p>\n

The Rangers, meanwhile, announced earlier this month that they plan to enter a “retool” phase<\/a> after an injury-riddled first half that has New York in last place in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Soucy is the first domino to fall, with trades for star winger Artemi Panarin<\/a> and potentially others expected over the next several weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Islanders acquired defenseman Carson Soucy from the New York Rangers for a 2026 third-round pick,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-432282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432282","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=432282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}