We continue our look around the NHL with an overview of the free-agent situation for the Rangers.
The New York Rangers have a handful of upcoming free agents this summer, including Kaapo Kakko, Ryan Lindgren, and Braden Schneider. Factoring in an urgent need to sign a first-line right winger, it seemed unlikely that the Blueshirts would be able to accomplish everything on their offseason to-do list.
With restricted free agent and 2019 second-overall pick Kaapo Kakko‘s future and contract status with the New York Rangers up in the air, the Chicago Blackhawks should look to acquire him either through trade or other means.
Kaapo Kakko’s future with the New York Rangers is in question after a disappointing 2023-24 season and a postseason in which he was scratched in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final and scored only one goal in 15 games.
The New York Rangers came up short once again in 2024, but unlike 2022, when the run to the Eastern Conference Finals felt like a surprise, it truly felt like their year to win it all.
Despite having career-highs in goals and points for the 2023 Rangers, A Kaapo Kakko trade could happen. A second-overall pick in the 2019 NHL Draft, the Turku native entered the season with expectations to fill a top-six role under new Head Coach Peter Laviolette.
Kent Hughes will be aggressive this summer. As in the past two summer seasons, the Habs’ GM will do everything in his power to improve his club for the upcoming campaign, without necessarily sacrificing a piece of the future.
Kaapo Kakko and the New York Rangers are coming upon a critical juncture in their relationship. The 23-year-old forward is a restricted free agent July 1, coming off a disappointing season, part of an uneven tenure on Broadway since being the No.
Despite winning the Presidents' Trophy with the NHL's best regular season record, the 2023-24 New York Rangers season ended with disappointment on Saturday…
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, Kaapo Kakko hasn’t been a playoff factor for the New York Rangers. Could he be on the move in the offseason? Meanwhile, amidst a strong game from Darnell Nurse and a series-tieing win from the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday, the defenseman made a Top 20 trade list.
Kaapo Kakko returned to the New York Rangers lineup for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Final against the Florida Panthers on Sunday. The forward replaced Jimmy Vesey, who is week to week with an upper-body injury sustained in New York’s thrilling 2-1 overtime win in Game 2 on Friday.
Kaapo Kakko is a healthy scratch for the New York Rangers in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final against the Florida Panthers. The 23-year-old forward was not one of the 13 forwards who took part in pregame warmups at Madison Square Garden.
The Florida Panthers are one round away from defending their Eastern Conference crown, but they have a tough task ahead. The New York Rangers have been excellent these playoffs and have a contrasting style of hockey that will give the Panthers their most difficult challenge of the playoffs yet.
On May 16, the New York Rangers triumphed over the Carolina Hurricanes, thanks to a Herculean effort from Chris Kreider, who scored a natural hat trick in the third period to clinch the series and propel the Rangers into the Eastern Conference Final.
It was Cinco De Mika [Zibanejad] at Madison Square Garden on Sunday afternoon. Game 1 was unfamiliar territory for this Carolina Hurricanes team. Thanks to their regular season dominance over the past five seasons, Sunday afternoon’s game would be their first time opening up a series on the road since the 2019 Eastern Conference final.
At first glance, it seems likely that plenty of people will scoff at any sort of a comparison between the St. Louis Blues’ Pavel Buchnevich and the New York Rangers‘ Kaapo Kakko, other than the fact they’re both right wings.
The New York Rangers are focused on making a push for a Stanley Cup this season and have made the appropriate moves leading up to the postseason to give themselves a better chance at going all the way.
As we get closer to the NHL Trade Deadline on March 8, 2024, many names are going to be rumored to be on the move. One name that has come up recently for the New York Rangers is Kaapo Kakko.
If one entity was missed during November and December, it was the importance of Kaapo Kakko in the New York Rangers lineup. With just three goals to his name now, the former second-overall pick in 2019 plays a bigger role than fans think.
One of the young stars on Broadway is ready to get back into some game action. New York Rangers head coach Peter Laviolette says forward Kaapo Kakko will be in the lineup on Sunday as the Blueshirts get set to take on the Washington Capitals.
The injury occurred late in the second period when Kakko went into the boards with Erik Johnson and awkwardly fell on his leg.
2019 second overall pick Kaapo Kakko hasn’t burst out of the gates to start his NHL career as many expected he would, but those who have paid close attention to both the New York Rangers and the young Finnish forward could clearly tell the steady progress Kakko has made since his difficult rookie season.
The New York Rangers will go into 2023-2024 with plenty of questions about their future. One of those questions is the future of the "Kid Line" of Alexis Lafreniere, Kaapo Kakko and Filip Chytil.
Kakko was a restricted free agent after he recorded seven goals and 11 assists across 43 regular-season games for the Rangers in 2021-22.
In what would prove to be their final game of the season last night, a 2-1 loss at the hands of the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Finals, the New York Rangers made the surprising choice to list forward Kaapo Kakko as a healthy scratch in favor of Dryden Hunt.
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