Artemi Panarin has been one of the rare free agent success stories in the salary cap era where a big-money, long-term deal actually panned out with a consistently productive player.
From the moment Panarin arrived in New York he played at an elite level offensively, helped accelerate their rebuild and turned them back into a contender.
But with the 2024-25 season being a massive disappointment on a team level, and with management in turmoil as it tries to figure out how to fix the mess on the ice, the Rangers are suddenly looking like a team that might have to do what would have seemed unthinkable at the start of the regular season -- become sellers.