Sources: Rangers to send 12th pick to Penguins

The New York Rangers person decided to nonstop the 12th prime successful Friday's NHL draught to the Pittsburgh Penguins to implicit the conditions from their acquisition of guardant J.T. Miller past season, sources told ESPN.

The Rangers sent a conditional first-round prime to the Vancouver Canucks successful a bundle that included guardant Filip Chytil and defenseman Victor Mancini for Miller and defensemen Erik Brannstrom and Jackson Dorrington. Miller, 32, had 35 points successful 32 games with the Rangers past season.

The Canucks past shipped that prime to the Penguins successful a commercialized bundle for defenseman Marcus Pettersson.

The information connected the pick: That if the Rangers' 2025 first-rounder was successful the apical 13, they had the enactment to nonstop that prime to the Penguins and clasp onto their 2026 first-round pick. New York finished 11th successful the Eastern Conference (39-36-7, 85 points) and extracurricular the playoff picture, earning the 12th wide prime successful the process.

Keeping the 2026 prime benefits the Rangers successful aggregate ways. If the squad returns to contention nether new caput coach Mike Sullivan, it could usage the 2026 prime to bolster its roster earlier the NHL commercialized deadline. But if things proceed to inclination successful the other direction, the Rangers volition person a imaginable lottery prime successful what experts judge is simply a precise beardown draught class, with phenom guardant Gavin McKenna arsenic the expected archetypal wide pick.

The Penguins present person back-to-back picks successful the archetypal round, owning the 11th and 12th picks.