Rangers sitting Artemi Panarin for foreseeable future as ‘retool’ moves ahead
NY Post
The pending Rangers sell-off is really about to take off now.
Two days after making their first retooling trade of the regular season, the Rangers held leading scorer Artemi Panarin out of Wednesday’s 5-2 road loss to the Islanders for “roster management,” The Post’s Mollie Walker reported about an hour before puck drop on social media.
The star winger will not play in the team’s final three games before the NHL’s upcoming break next week either as general manager Chris Drury looks to finalize a trade.
“Obviously, Bread is a terrific player and a great teammate, and he’s good friends with a lot of the guys that are in that dressing room. So that has an impact on guys,” Rangers coach Mike Sullivan said about Panarin’s absence following the loss at UBS Arena, their third straight to the Isles this season. “I thought our guys did a great job, just as far as controlling what they can and bringing the right intentions out there.
“But obviously he’s one of the best Rangers of his generation, and he’s not an easy guy to replace. … It forces all of us to look in the mirror and try to figure out how we can all do a better job.”
Drury informed Panarin before his Jan. 16 letter to fans that the 34-year-old — a pending unrestricted free agent after his seven-year, $81 million deal signed as a free agent in 2019 expires this summer — would not be re-signed by the organization after extension talks went nowhere and they had “extremely candid” conversations.
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