{"id":432096,"date":"2026-01-28T07:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/432096\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:41:17","slug":"carson-soucy-trade-to-islanders-reflects-the-rangers-new-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/432096\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Soucy trade to Islanders reflects the Rangers&#8217; new &#8216;reality&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rangers didn\u2019t have to wait long to see traded defenseman Carson Soucy, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/26\/sports\/rangers-close-to-trading-carson-soucy-to-islanders-as-sell-off-begins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who switched sides in their rivalry with the Islanders<\/a> just in time to take part in a home-and-home series against his former team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is kind of unique, I guess. That doesn\u2019t happen very often,\u201d Rangers coach Mike Sullivan said of Wednesday\u2019s front end on Long Island. \u201cSeuss is a great person. I think he was a good Ranger. He competed hard. He and I had a conversation, and that\u2019s what we talked about. I enjoyed working with him, and he\u2019s a good pro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just part of the game and the reality of where we\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers, who own the worst record in the 16-team Eastern Conference, dealt the 31-year-old Soucy to the Islanders on Monday night in exchange for a 2026 third-round pick. <\/p>\n<p>He was just the first of other potential moves by general manager Chris Drury sure to follow before the March 6 trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think this is a situation where it affects players like Seuss that\u2019s a little bit older, and Chris is obviously trying to retool this team to get us a little bit younger and more competitive here moving forward,\u201d Sullivan added.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4085282;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38307117\" width=\"831\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NYP102025RANGERS15JS.jpg\" alt=\"New York Rangers defenseman Carson Soucy chases the puck in the second period at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 20, 2025. \" class=\"wp-image-38307117\"\/>New York Rangers defenseman Carson Soucy chases the puck in the second period at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 20, 2025.  JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan was pleased with the play of forward Matt Rempe in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/26\/sports\/rangers-claw-their-way-to-ot-win-over-bruins-with-likely-fire-sale-looming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monday\u2019s 4-3 overtime win over Boston<\/a>, his first action in more than two weeks due to lingering effects of the left thumb injury he initially suffered in October. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the expert take on the Blueshirts\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Rangers, a weekly Sports+ exclusive.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The fourth liner recorded two shots and two hits in 8:43 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur medical team obviously works with him daily. They monitor his strength, his fitness, all of those things,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cAnd then obviously, Remps has to have a comfort level of where he\u2019s at and when he feels a lot stronger and more comfortable so that he can make an impact. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he did [Monday] night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers didn\u2019t have to wait long to see traded defenseman Carson Soucy, who switched sides in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,349,36,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-432096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-rangers","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkrangers","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-ny-sports-minute","15":"tag-rangers","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115971601365420385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}