The Trend Line · 2026-27 · awaiting opening night

New York Rangers

State of the teamNew York missed the playoffs for a second straight season — its first back-to-back absence in years — a steep fall for a team two seasons removed from a Presidents' Trophy. Mika Zibanejad (34 goals) led the offence, but the Rangers turned deadline sellers, most notably trading Artemi Panarin to Los Angeles. The slide came in Mike Sullivan's first season behind the bench, in a year that also marked the franchise's 100th in the NHL. The response was expensive: New York acquired Pavel Dorofeyev from Vegas and signed him to a seven-year, $77 million contract. Vincent Trocheck went to Utah, and Sean Durzi and Marcus Pettersson came in to rebuild the blue line. The new season starts tracking here at puck drop.
110
2021-22
107
2022-23
114
2023-24
85
2024-25
77
2025-26
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2026-27
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Team Points Pace

Cumulative standings points through each game of the season, one colour per year. The red line is this season. Toggle to season-total bars for the year-over-year story.

one colour per season · hover for game detail
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Goals For & Against

Offence and defence, by season or game by game. Lower is better on goals against.

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Player Production

Each column is a core player; each dot is one season. Red is this season. Toggle the metric; hover any dot for the full line.

red = current season · one colour per past year
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Ice Time Tracker

Who's getting more ice time? Average minutes per game, season by season — the clearest read on who's gaining, and losing, the coach's trust. Flip to power-play time to see who's on the top unit. Add any skater on the roster; click a name in the legend to hide his line.

Minutes per game, from official NHL ice-time data.
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Goaltending

Every goalie season, dot size scaled by games played.

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Team Engine

Under-the-hood numbers, season by season: faceoffs, possession (SAT% is what the analytics crowd calls Corsi; Fenwick is the same idea minus blocked shots — above 50% means this team controls play), special teams, and shot rates.

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Zone Time

Offensive-zone time is the why behind shot-attempt share (SAT%) above — a team that lives in the offensive zone out-attempts opponents. The line tracks how that's moved season by season; the bar is this year's split. Based on NHL player-tracking data.

No player-tracking zone data published for this team.
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