{"id":874793,"date":"2026-10-08T05:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874793\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:36:12","slug":"tye-kartye-making-quick-rangers-ascension-after-being-dumped-by-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874793\/","title":{"rendered":"Tye Kartye making quick Rangers ascension after being dumped by Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"

The phrasing, in the middle of a preseason broadcast interview, was notable from Tye Kartye. <\/p>\n

It would\u2019ve been understandable if he wanted to prove the Kraken wrong, and publicly stated as such, after the organization who inked him to an entry-level deal as an undrafted forward \u2014 and then watched him get named the AHL\u2019s top rookie and climb his way to the NHL \u2014 dumped him on waivers in February.<\/p>\n

But, Kartye said that night during the intermission interview, he wanted to prove the Rangers right for taking a chance on him instead of proving Seattle wrong. <\/p>\n

And after a strong training camp bled into the opening five games of the regular season, where the 25-year-old has already been promoted from the fourth line to the second line<\/a>, Kartye has started to validate their decision to claim him. <\/p>\n

Head coach Mike Sullivan called him a \u201cdog on a bone on the puck,\u201d and Kartye\u2019s ability to win possession \u2014 something shaping his game since juniors \u2014 has allowed him to seamlessly mesh with Pavel Dorofeyev, their $77 million offseason splash,<\/a> and J.T. Miller.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it happened,\u201d Kartye told The Post on Monday of getting waived, \u201cI kinda move from the last team that I was on and I focus on the team that I\u2019m on now \u2014 and doing everything that I can to be successful here and help the team win here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kartye skated in 24 games with the Rangers last season<\/a> after arriving, building some initial chemistry with Miller while collecting five goals and 14 points. <\/p>\n

He opened training camp last month on the fourth line, producing a goal in multiple training camp scrimmages and flashing his offensive instincts again in the final exhibition \u2014 when he sent a shot past the Islanders\u2019 Semyon Varlamov. <\/p>\n

Then, during the win in Detroit last week, Sullivan swapped Kartye and Oliver Bjorkstrand, attempting to ignite his second line with the speed and tenacity of Kartye.<\/p>\n

\"TyeTye Kartye skates up ice during the Rangers\u2019 win over the Islanders on Oct. 6, 2026 at Madison Square Garden. Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve become the Rangers\u2019 top forward combination in terms of expected goals for percentage (69.79), according to Evolving-Hockey, and sit 10th leaguewide among forward lines with at least 20 minutes together. Kartye doesn\u2019t want to change his identity, either. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s relied on it since his first year in juniors with the OHL\u2019s Soo Greyhounds, when he went from not making the team to trying to carve out a role \u2014 with his goal totals climbing from four to 25 and then 45 in his three seasons there.<\/p>\n

The Greyhounds worked to enhance his shot, Jamie Tardif, a former Greyhounds assistant and an assistant with AHL Hartford from 2022 through last season, told The Post. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

They helped it become one that could thrive in tight and high-danger areas of the ice. And along the way, Kartye developed the type of game that \u201ccan move up and down your lineup,\u201d Tardif said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether Tye\u2019s on a top line or a fourth line, his role and his identity as a player does not change,\u201d Tardif said. \u201cSo everyday, Tye is a very predictable hockey player. \u2026 To me, it\u2019s no secret why he\u2019s in that role, he\u2019s in the top six, because he\u2019s predictable, he\u2019s dependable and guys want to play with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across three years with the Kraken, Kartye skated in 180 games and collected 20 goals and 41 points while also getting his first taste of postseason hockey during the 2023 playoffs. <\/p>\n

\"TyeTye Kartye (right) battles Matthew Schaefer for the puck during the Rangers\u2019 win over the Islanders. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He went from undrafted to one of the sport\u2019s biggest stages before, less than three years after those playoff games, hitting waivers in the middle of February with his hockey career again uncertain.<\/p>\n

Then the Rangers gave him a fresh start. As a restricted free agent in the offseason, Kartye\u2019s opportunity to be in the top six also doubles as an audition to play his way into the future of the organization. <\/p>\n

Kartye likely won\u2019t recapture the 40-goal output from his final year of juniors. He might not score with the same consistency as he did in those scrimmages and exhibitions, either.<\/p>\n

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But the Blueshirts don\u2019t need that from him. They just need the version of Kartye that prompted Sullivan\u2019s first tweak of the top six this season in the first place. The puck pursuit. The forecheck. The under-the-radar variables that, in turn, can help unlock the rest of the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout a doubt, we always have conversations with players like that that get moved up the lineup,\u201d Sullivan said Monday. \u201c \u2018Don\u2019t change your game just because you moved up the lineup. You got moved up the lineup because of the game that you\u2019re playing. Bring that element to the line, and everything will work.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The phrasing, in the middle of a preseason broadcast interview, was notable from Tye Kartye. It would\u2019ve been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4823,385,99],"class_list":["post-874793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874793","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=874793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}