{"id":446980,"date":"2026-02-05T12:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446980\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:57:13","slug":"artemi-panarin-is-gone-stakes-of-rangers-roster-churn-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446980\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemi Panarin is gone, stakes of Rangers&#8217; roster churn rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artemi Panarin finally found a new home, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/04\/sports\/rangers-trade-artemi-panarin-to-kings-in-pre-olympic-freeze-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangers traded him to the Kings<\/a> before Wednesday\u2019s Olympic break roster freeze \u2014 that will lift Feb. 22 \u2014 and ahead of the trade deadline on March 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers will be a hot mess for the rest of the season, at least, as they look to the future and perhaps more moves.<\/p>\n<p>But they needed to figure out how to move Panarin after general manager Chris Drury opted not to give him a contract extension and the team allowed the 34-year-old to stay away from the team until a trade could be worked out.<\/p>\n<p>The return, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/04\/sports\/liam-greentree-brings-big-game-to-rangers-as-artemi-panarin-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prospect Liam Greentree<\/a> and a third-round pick, isn\u2019t all that exciting, especially for a player <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/04\/sports\/artemi-panarin-was-everything-the-rangers-ever-hoped-he-could-be\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as productive as Panarin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artemi Panarin finally found a new home, as the Rangers traded him to the Kings before Wednesday\u2019s Olympic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[3039,6426,5,3328,35,5190,5193,4,2541,36,43,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-446980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-artemi-panarin","9":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-rangers","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkrangers","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","17":"tag-rangers","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446980","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=446980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}