New York Rangers: Ranking the success of the past five trade deadlines

The New York Rangers have been perennial Stanley Cup Contenders for the better part of a decade. Being a contender means being active at the trade deadline.

This year’s Rangers team is an outlier. The team probably will not make the playoffs and will be selling at the trade deadline. Neither of those has been true in New York for quite some time. In fact, making moves at the deadline has often bolstered the team’s playoff push.

Not only do the Rangers make a move at the deadline every year, they have made a splash. Of course, not every move has paid off. There is no exact science to making moves at the deadline, but the biggest key would be to limit risk.

In the case of New York, they’ve always been trading for proven veterans which are known quantities. When you follow the degrees of separation from these trades you see just how much they shape the Rangers current roster.

Here are the last five trade deadline for the Rangers, ranked in order of success.