Grading the New York Rangers 2025 offseason moves to date

New York Rangers President and General Manager Chris Drury has been plenty busy this offseason in trying to compensate for an incredibly disappointing 2024-25 season.

Here's a look an in-depth look at over 10 of Drury's offseason moves so far as we enter into mid-July, and a grade for each transaction.

Grading the Rangers' offseason moves to date

1. Change of coaching staff

Doing away with former head coach Peter Laviolette in exchange for Mike Sullivan is one of the best moves the Rangers made all year, but it could be argued that it wasn't technically the offseason.

Still, the move of completing the new coaching staff as a whole was a positive one — Joe Sacco, David Quinn and Ty Hennes officially joined Sullivan's coaching staff for the 2025-26 NHL season. Two of the three made the change over to the Rangers from the Pittsburgh Penguins alongside their former head coach — meaning there will be plenty of unity across the coaching staff during the players' first year under a new staff.

2. Extending Juuso Parssinen

Juuso Parssinen joined the New York Rangers at the NHL trade deadline. The forward was acquired as part of the package from Colorado when Ryan Lindgren was sent to the Avalanche.

This move was and is puzzling because it just adds to an already crowded situation in the bottom six. But, it does add more depth to the roster and position group so I'll give it a barely passing grade.

3. Trading away Chris Kreider

I do not care what anybody says, there is no way I'm giving this franchise any sort of passing marks for trading away the (now formerly) longest tenured player on their roster.

On the ice, Kreider was a leader in so many ways for the Rangers and certainly left his mark when it came to his success and being the face of New York sports. Since being selected in the first round of the 2009 NHL Draft, he has made New York history.

Kreider's first NHL goal was the winner in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals against Ottawa in April of 2012. He also scored the winner in Game 1 of the second round against the Washington Capitals. Not to mention his 326 goals and 256 assists for 582 points were the 10th most in the franchise's history.

Though, I can't exactly give doing away with Kreider an F; in exchange the Rangers got forward Carey Terrance, a third-round pick (originally Toronto’s) in the 2025 NHL Draft and — most importantly — $6.5 million in cap space.

4. Extending Matt Rempe

Matt Rempe led the Rangers in hits per 60 minutes (19.64) and his 19.64 hits per 60 were the sixth-most in the NHL among players who skated in at least 40 games. This year he also established new career-high across points with eight, goals with three and assists with five.

Rempe is also a fan favorite and is the biggest man on the Rangers' roster (6'9", 255 pounds). Extending him for a two-year, $1,950,000 million contract, featuring an average annual value of $975,000 was the smart move to make despite the fact that there are league fans out there who would argue there are better players out there.