Rangers make MULTIPLE moves... HUGE trade INCOMING | NYR News

28 seconds. That's how close the Rangers were to securing yet another point in one of the hottest starts we've seen from this team in recent memory. But before we get into that and two players in particular that are propping up this team, there's actually a lot going on with the Rangers right now from a brand new signing to a goalie trade that is coming from multiple reports because of a serious update that the Rangers just gave us on one of the goalies. So about an hour before puck drop last night, the Rangers made it official. They have officially signed Luke Glendening to a regular one-year contract. And like I mentioned on the goalie front, the Corollary news continues to get worse and the truth behind why the Rangers are actually looking for a goaltender has been revealed. All right, so there's been a lot of questions about Luke Glendening. So here's the deal. Let's get into who he is as a player. Luke Glendening signed a professional tryout deal with the Rangers on Monday. He's practiced with the team all week, and then last night it became official a one-year contract, $850,000, which is now the league minimum. He is 37 years old. He's played 934 NHL games between the Red Wings, the Lightning, the Devils, and the Flyers, and he started his fall on a tryout with the Lightning and was released from that PTO. There is two reasons in particular that the Rangers wanted to sign this player. First of all, Joe Veleno's injury status, who is supposed to be the fourth line center, and the fact that this guy is actually really good at face-offs and killing penalties. Joe Veleno got hurt on October 4th against the Utah Mammoth. The team says that he's out at least three months, which is obviously very significant, so we'll be talking mid-January at the earliest at this point, and he was the guy they signed this summer to a one-year, $1.2 million contract to be the fourth-line center. Since then, the Rangers have tried a couple different options, including Cole Baldwin and most recently, Justin Dowling, to be the fourth-line center for this team. And Justin Dowling actually set up Oliver Bjorkstrand for a goal last night, and that was his first NHL point since March of 2025. But the Rangers need someone there that can play a role for this team, that can win face-offs, that can skate. And Justin Dowling has won just 36% of his face-offs this season. Luke Glendening Glendening has won 55.6% of his face-offs over his whole NHL career in 934 games. That is not a hot streak. That is a guy who knows how to win face-offs. This is a big deal for the Rangers because you need guys that can play different roles. You need a guy that can kill penalties and win face-offs on the penalty kill. And not just that, a defensive zone face-off. You need to be able to trust your fourth line at times. What if you ice the puck, right? What if you are just in a defensive zone face-off and the rest of your team is gassed? You need a guy you can trust in some of those situations. Now, I've also mentioned the penalty kill and he's a huge factor on the penalty kill. Not just killing penalties, but in Philadelphia last season, he played two minutes a night on average shorthanded and he scored eight shorthanded goals in his career. The rangers penalty kill is actually one of the best so far this season They are top five in the nhl and right now it is at 91.7 And Glendening is the kind of guy who's going to be able to keep it there and keep it running Well now he's certainly not the most skilled player. He's not going to be here to score goals But he's here to play a role. He's here to win face-offs He's here to play on the fourth line and this is the type of move that normally i'd be like Oh, here we go again Chris Drury, but to be honest with a couple injuries i think it's a sneaky good move that brings in some experience to work with some of the younger guys in that situation as well to prep some of the younger guys within this organization within this team to be able to take on situations like that in the future so that's exactly what he's going to be for this team a fourth line center he's going to be slotted in with Oliver Bjorkstrand and Taylor Raddysh probably on the fourth line and the obvious move here is to put Luke Glendening in for Justin Dowling send Justin Dowling back to the Hartford Wolf Pack and guys at the end of the day. They have the cap space to make this work. Igor Shesterkin is out due to an injury for the rest of the season. They have a little bit of cap space. Jovelin's $1.2 million is sitting on long-term injury reserved right now, and it basically costs them nothing at $850,000. He didn't play last night because obviously they signed him to a contract just before the game started, but his first game with the Rangers is probably going to be this Saturday against the Ottawa Senators in their next game. Guys, really quickly, before we get into a major update on Jonas Korpisalo. I am doing a jersey giveaway here on the channel. Thank you so much for the support on the channel. We're now over 12,200 subscribers. Thank you so much for the support the last couple of years and wherever you're watching, whether it's YouTube or Facebook. But again, I'm doing a jersey giveaway here on the channel for whatever comes first, either 15,000 subscribers or the Rangers make the playoffs. So make sure you are subscribed here on the YouTube channel. All right, let's get into this goaltending situation because this is the one that's going to make me go gray. This is the one that's been stressing me out ever since the offseason when they traded for Jonas Korpisalo. So if you're just catching up to everything that's happened, star goaltender Igor Shesterkin is out for the season with a knee injury. Jonas Korpisalo, who was the original backup plan for the backup goaltender position, who was traded for this summer, still hasn't played a game and he's also out due to an injury. Earlier this month, Elliot Friedman revealed that Jonas Korpisalo would be out for four weeks, and The Athletic reported that it's a foot infection that he's dealing with. We talked about that a little bit yesterday, and he still hasn't started skating, and that original timeline is already halfway gone. We are two weeks in to that original timeline. So now, originally, I was really upset because why would you trade for another goalie to replace Dylan Grann, who's actually been playing very well, but now it's become obvious the Rangers are still in the goalie market because we have no idea if Jonas Correleis is going to play, period. On October 10th, ESPN's Emily Kaplan revealed that the Rangers are in the market for a goaltender. They were expected to look for a goalie on the trade market, and this week, Elliot Friedman revealed a couple goalies that they've scouted in Buffalo's Ukko Peltonen, Utah's Karel Vejmelka, and maybe even Ville Husso in Anaheim. Something that I was worried about, and I don't want to get lost in all of this, is it's become clear to me now that again they're not replacing Dylan Grann he's playing well but they need to get him a backup option because I just don't think you can trust Spencer Martin to back up Dylan Grann you need another option there and I thought that that was going to be Jonas Corposalo Dylan Grann is now 4-3-1 on the season he has a 9-15 save percentage after a tough game against the Leafs last night he made 30 saves and Adam Fox said himself that Grann had to make some big saves in that game because of what the team in front of him was giving up it was a really tough game for the Rangers actually Grann has been good and he's carried the load he's played six straight games since Shesterkin went down with an injury on October 9th six straight he's 24 years old and he's basically doing this alone with Spencer Martin backing him up and i'm definitely teetering towards the Rangers should trade for a goalie at this point you have no idea when Jonas Corpusalo is coming back, and even when he does come back, let's be real about what he is. I thought it was going to be fine, but at the end of the day, he is a career 900 save percentage goalie over 334 games, and he was under an 895 save percentage in each of his last three seasons. I am the biggest Dylan Grann stand that there is, but unfortunately, at some point, you are going to, and I've seen it in the comments, run this kid into the ground. He's starting way too many games in a row. he is playing well but at some point he's going to need a break and you need another goalie there so you have no timeline on Jonas Corpasaloma you have to go out and trade for a goalie now and things are starting to percolate and i feel like things can move very quickly and now that Connor Hellebuyck has reportedly been traded to the New Jersey Devils the one part that does sting about these trade reports is if you're looking at Karel the Melka if you're looking at Ukko Peltonen and both of them have worse stats than the Rangers current starting goaltender Dylan Garand one other fun thing that Emily Kaplan has also floated out there is that apparently Jonathan Quick could be open to coming out of retirement he's 40 years old he's the Rangers director of goaltending development now and he's played 25 games for them last season he's obviously a Stanley Cup champion um i don't love that idea especially because he's retired now but apparently if the Rangers absolutely needed it, he'd be open to the idea. Let me know how you feel about this whole situation in the comments. There's no way you have any idea of when Jonas Corpasaloma is coming back. The Rangers are in a tough situation. I feel like Dylan Garand bought them some time, but unfortunately now I have to say it, they have to trade for a goaltender. Now we have to talk about two guys in particular that are leading the way for this team, even after, yes, it was a very disappointing loss, but there's still so much positive to take out of this team this season. Last night in Toronto, the Rangers fell behind three different times in the game but each time they came back Lafreniere ended up tying it 4-4 with about five and a half minutes left with his eighth goal of the season by the way and then with 28 seconds left Troy Stetcher beats Garand up high which hasn't happened too often and the Leafs end up winning 5-4 in regulation Mika Zibanejad continues his hard start and he had a goal and an assist they are still showing fight they are showing that they are a team that is playing for each other and bought into a system now Mike Sullivan did not like it he called it a loose game and that it was a game that they did not want to play and honestly he's right toronto outshot them 35 to 25 and Garand was the reason that it was even close at some points in this game making some big saves Adam Fox has been an absolute beast for this team again this season and the hate that he gets is unbelievable he had four assists in this game and and that's his third four assist game of his career he has 14 assists in 12 games that's the second in the entire league only behind Connor McDavid after how slow the rangers started last season and only won their sixth home game in january 14 assists in october is quite good Adam Fox is the employee of the month for october he also hasn't scored a goal yet this season but he's continuing to make plays and just be who he is and he's so underrated defensively as well i think Adam Fox gets such a bad reputation somehow he's one of the best defensemen in the entire league definitely top five defensemen by the way i thought this was insane there's a Norris Trophy winner whose career high is 63 assists and right now he's on pace for 96 assists this season and guys i have to mention Alexi Lafreniere who's off to the hottest start of his entire career he did start slow this season with zero points in his first three games but since then eight goals and 14 points in nine games, including a hat trick against the Islanders. He leads the Rangers in goals and he's tied with Fox for the team lead in points. I talked about this the other day. It might not be sustainable, but his career high in goals is 28. And right now this season, he's on pace for 55 goals. And again, it might not be sustainable. He's shooting at like almost 35% right now. That is sure to come down. But again, it's the hottest start of his career and he's playing more minutes whether it's five on five or the power play he's being put in a position to be a star and he's taking advantage of that moment and I absolutely love it. All Rangers fans have been waiting for this and Lafreniere has been great to start the year, so with the loss last night, the Rangers are now 7-4 and one second still in the Metropolitan Division but two of the Rangers players are playing very well: Adam Fox and Alexi Lafreniere, but one player in particular and we're going to have to talk about it is absolutely snakebitten and that is Pavel Dorofeyev. The next Rangers game is coming up on Saturday in Ottawa, it's going to be a big one. It could include Luke Glendening, it's probably going to include Dylan Garand in goal but guys I'll keep you updated the rest of the way for any moves that they make. Let me know how you feel about everything we discussed in this video today, make sure to hit that subscribe button and I'll see you for another video tomorrow