{"id":819085,"date":"2026-08-19T19:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819085\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:36:11","slug":"rangers-bring-back-scott-morrow-in-defensive-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819085\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers bring back Scott Morrow in defensive boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers bolstered their defensive depth on Wednesday, signing Scott Morrow to a one-year, two-way deal.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Post\u2019s Mollie Walker, the contract is for $850,000 at the NHL level and $125,000 at the AHL level.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Morrow, a right-handed defenseman who played 29 games for the Rangers last season after being acquired in the K\u2019Andre Miller deal, will enter camp in the running for the seventh defenseman spot.<\/p>\n<p>While Adam Fox, Sean Durzi and Braden Schneider appear locked into the Rangers\u2019 right-handed defense spots, Morrow and Urho Vaakanainen could compete for a backup role. <\/p>\n<p>Matthew Robertson could also be in that mix, but after being a lineup regular last season, looks likely to be on the left side of the third pair.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40408881\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/skates-ice-third-period-new-112457455.jpg\" alt=\"The Rangers signed defenseman Scott Morrow to a one-year contract.\" class=\"wp-image-40408881\"\/>The Rangers signed defenseman Scott Morrow to a one-year contract. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>Morrow did not score a goal for the Rangers last season, but had six assists. In 34 games with AHL Hartford, he scored five times with 14 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers bolstered their defensive depth on Wednesday, signing Scott Morrow to a one-year, two-way deal. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4823,385,21071,99],"class_list":["post-819085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819085","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=819085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}