Grading the Artemi Panarin trade for the Kings and Rangers

Sports news Nhl February 5, 2026

The Olympic break has begun, but one last big move took place in the NHL before the trade freeze for the games. On Wednesday the New York Rangers traded star forward Artemi Panarin to the Los Angeles Kings in a move designed to solidify the Kings’ playoff push in the back end of the season. Panarin subsequently signed a two-year, $22M contract extension ($11M AAV), which will keep the wing until the end of the 2026-27 season.

In exchange the Rangers received forward prospect Liam Greentree, and a conditional third round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, which will become a second round pick if the Kings win a playoff round, as well as a conditional fourth round pick which hinges on the Kings winning two playoffs series this season.

Los Angeles Kings analysis and grade

There has been dire need for Los Angeles to find a legitimate, point-per-game superstar to try and put together a playoff run this season. Truth be told, it’s been a down year for the Kings who projected to be much better on paper than they’ve been on the ice.

Panarin is a legitimate star who can get 40-year-old Corey Perry off the top line. Perry has been good in short bursts, but injured far too much to be a consistent difference maker. Panarin will solidify that top line alongside Alex Laferriere and Adrian Kempe to form a unit capable of winning games for Los Angeles and getting them into the playoffs.

The biggest question mark about this deal is what the expectations are for the Kings. This team is still woefully lacking at center, have no great prospects at the position, and just gave away the No. 1 prospect in their system for a few years of Artemi Panarin — who will be 37-years-old at the end of this deal.

If your goal as an organization is being content with getting bounced early in the playoffs, then this is a great deal — it will achieve precisely that. I’m not buying for a second that Panarin is the missing piece to put together a Stanley Cup run, especially in the West up against the likes of the Avs, Wild, and Stars.

The saving grace is that the Kings managed to pull off this deal without including a 1st round pick, which was being rumored as part of the asking price for Panarin, along with a top prospect.

New York Rangers analysis and grade

For the life of me I can’t fathom why the Rangers felt the need to rush the deal and pull the trigger on a Panarin trade before the Olympics. With Panarin being a Russian national he won’t be in Milano Cortina for the games, eliminating any risk of injury — and after the games teams will be feeling froggy to make big trades, especially if a core player gets injured.

I really like Liam Greentree as a prospect. There’s potential for him to develop into a Top 6 forward on the Rangers, but he’s utterly untested. One would assume the Rangers would have at least asked for a NHL-tested player and a first round pick to get this done, making the deal reek of settling.

This is designed to turbo-charge the Rangers tank and rebuild, but this just wasn’t a smart deal. In the course of a week we’ve seen talks of a Panarin deal shrink from landing a highly-valued young player like Jackson Blake (CAR) and a first rounder, to now accepting much, much less.

Bad timing. Mediocre return. The Kings ongoing struggles will continue until there’s a shakeup in the front office — starting with Chris Drury.

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IPL 2026: Gaikwad’s lack of returns due to nature of T20 cricket, says CSK coach Fleming Ruturaj Gaikwad has endured a difficult start to the season, managing just 63 runs, averaging just 12.60 with three single-digit scores and a venture beyond the 20s. His partner Sanju Samson suffered similar returns before a sublime unbeaten hundred at Chepauk turned the tide. Ayush Mhatre at No. 3, meanwhile, has effortlessly accumulated 171 runs, including two fifties, at an average of 34.20, striking at 170 in the PowerPlay. The youngster successfully stepped into an injured Ruturaj’s shoes last season. That, coupled with the CSK skipper’s dwindling returns, has fanned the whispers calling for a reshuffle at the top for the five-time champion, but head coach Stephen Fleming remains unconvinced. “He hasn’t had the returns that he would like, but that can be the nature of T20. We’ve seen over the years that he’s a quality player. If we can cover for him for a few games and he comes into form… Very rarely someone dominates the whole way.”ALSO READ | Hitting the hard length has been my strength, says Josh HazlewoodSunrisers Hyderabad’s charged-up bowling pool lineup will hope to make that task harder for the Super Kings. Fleming was left impressed by the team’s resilience against Rajasthan Royals.“SRH fought back really well to give themselves a chance against RR. We’d love to have Hyderabad in that situation, but it’ll take a lot of work. Their top order is dynamic. How we deal with that will be one of the key components, because they can take the game away from you very quickly.”M.S. Dhoni’s availability remains a mystery, with a tight-lipped Fleming saying he is “happy with Dhoni’s recovery.”Published on Apr 17, 2026 #IPL #Gaikwads #lack #returns #due #nature #T20 #cricket #CSK #coach #Fleming

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Ruturaj Gaikwad has endured a difficult start to the season, managing just 63 runs, averaging just 12.60 with three single-digit scores and a venture beyond the 20s. His partner Sanju Samson suffered similar returns before a sublime unbeaten hundred at Chepauk turned the tide.
Ayush Mhatre at No. 3, meanwhile, has effortlessly accumulated 171 runs, including two fifties, at an average of 34.20, striking at 170 in the PowerPlay. The youngster successfully stepped into an injured Ruturaj’s shoes last season.
That, coupled with the CSK skipper’s dwindling returns, has fanned the whispers calling for a reshuffle at the top for the five-time champion, but head coach Stephen Fleming remains unconvinced.
“He hasn’t had the returns that he would like, but that can be the nature of T20. We’ve seen over the years that he’s a quality player. If we can cover for him for a few games and he comes into form… Very rarely someone dominates the whole way.”
ALSO READ | Hitting the hard length has been my strength, says Josh Hazlewood
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s charged-up bowling pool lineup will hope to make that task harder for the Super Kings. Fleming was left impressed by the team’s resilience against Rajasthan Royals.
“SRH fought back really well to give themselves a chance against RR. We’d love to have Hyderabad in that situation, but it’ll take a lot of work. Their top order is dynamic. How we deal with that will be one of the key components, because they can take the game away from you very quickly.”
M.S. Dhoni’s availability remains a mystery, with a tight-lipped Fleming saying he is “happy with Dhoni’s recovery.”
Published on Apr 17, 2026

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Ruturaj Gaikwad has endured a difficult start to the season, managing just 63 runs, averaging just 12.60 with three single-digit scores and a venture beyond the 20s. His partner Sanju Samson suffered similar returns before a sublime unbeaten hundred at Chepauk turned the tide.

Ayush Mhatre at No. 3, meanwhile, has effortlessly accumulated 171 runs, including two fifties, at an average of 34.20, striking at 170 in the PowerPlay. The youngster successfully stepped into an injured Ruturaj’s shoes last season.

That, coupled with the CSK skipper’s dwindling returns, has fanned the whispers calling for a reshuffle at the top for the five-time champion, but head coach Stephen Fleming remains unconvinced.

“He hasn’t had the returns that he would like, but that can be the nature of T20. We’ve seen over the years that he’s a quality player. If we can cover for him for a few games and he comes into form… Very rarely someone dominates the whole way.”

ALSO READ | Hitting the hard length has been my strength, says Josh Hazlewood

Sunrisers Hyderabad’s charged-up bowling pool lineup will hope to make that task harder for the Super Kings. Fleming was left impressed by the team’s resilience against Rajasthan Royals.

“SRH fought back really well to give themselves a chance against RR. We’d love to have Hyderabad in that situation, but it’ll take a lot of work. Their top order is dynamic. How we deal with that will be one of the key components, because they can take the game away from you very quickly.”

M.S. Dhoni’s availability remains a mystery, with a tight-lipped Fleming saying he is “happy with Dhoni’s recovery.”

Published on Apr 17, 2026

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Padres at Angels
Who would have thought the Padres at Angels in mid April would give us a kind of interesting matchup? Especially the Angels half of it. Well, here we are. And hey Mike Trout is on a tear with five homers in his last four games.
The Angels will start Jose Soriano and the righty has emerged as one of the best SP’s in baseball so far.
Through four starts and 27 innings he has allowed one measly earned run to cross the plate on his watch, alongside a 0.67 WHIP. The WHIP is huge for him as he’s an extreme groundball pitcher with a 4.0 LA and 61.4% GB% (94th percentile), so that’s a risk for him playing in front of a less than stellar infield. But he’s controlling contact well thus far with a 33% HardHit% and 87.8 EV. Oh and most importantly, he’s learned how to produce K’s from his 97.5 MPH heat. His Whiff% is up from 27% last year to 32.4%, and his K% has exploded from 21% to 32% He’s throwing his fastball much more (23.4% vs. 8.6%) and his slider much less (49.1% to 30.5%) and the new mix is clearly doing wonders.
The Padres start German Marquez, who has escaped Coors but magically is still not a good pitcher. He’s won two of his three starts, but that’s more thanks to his offense as he has an ugly 5.54 ERA and 1.69 and there’s nothing in his “skills” that suggest anything better than that. The Padres offense looks better on paper than they’ve played this far, as they have a teamwide wRC+ of 100.
They have just 17 homers as a team so far, none from Fernando Tatis Jr.
I like the F5 prop here because once it gets to the bullpen, the game tilts heavily to San Diego. Closer Mason Miller has an amazing walkout and when he gets to the mound he has an insane 74% K% so far. Meanwhile Angels closer Jordan Romano has blown two saves already this week.
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Giants at Nationals
Let’s stick to the Warmth in the Northeast play and go with an over on two kind of underwhelming teams. The Nats have actually had a pretty pesky offense as their 112 wRC+ ranks 4th in MLB. They face Logan Webb, who has gotten off to quite the rocky 5.25 ERA start. His K% has dipped to just 20% and his BB% is at 8.6% vs. 5.6% for his career. He’s had an ability to change his styles over the years, and in 2025 he bumped his K% to a career high 26%. He may need to do that again as he’s an extreme groundball pitcher in front of a really bad fielding right side of his infield. Not sure he gets it corrected in time to limit damage today. The Giants are not a titanic offense to say the least, but I trust they can at least get to the meh Zack Littell and the hideous Nats bullpen.
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We had just scratched back to .500 on the year and then Jesus Luzardo happened, oh well. Let’s look at a couple MLB Picks for today.

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Padres at Angels

Who would have thought the Padres at Angels in mid April would give us a kind of interesting matchup? Especially the Angels half of it. Well, here we are. And hey Mike Trout is on a tear with five homers in his last four games.

The Angels will start Jose Soriano and the righty has emerged as one of the best SP’s in baseball so far.

Through four starts and 27 innings he has allowed one measly earned run to cross the plate on his watch, alongside a 0.67 WHIP. The WHIP is huge for him as he’s an extreme groundball pitcher with a 4.0 LA and 61.4% GB% (94th percentile), so that’s a risk for him playing in front of a less than stellar infield. But he’s controlling contact well thus far with a 33% HardHit% and 87.8 EV. Oh and most importantly, he’s learned how to produce K’s from his 97.5 MPH heat. His Whiff% is up from 27% last year to 32.4%, and his K% has exploded from 21% to 32% He’s throwing his fastball much more (23.4% vs. 8.6%) and his slider much less (49.1% to 30.5%) and the new mix is clearly doing wonders.

The Padres start German Marquez, who has escaped Coors but magically is still not a good pitcher. He’s won two of his three starts, but that’s more thanks to his offense as he has an ugly 5.54 ERA and 1.69 and there’s nothing in his “skills” that suggest anything better than that. The Padres offense looks better on paper than they’ve played this far, as they have a teamwide wRC+ of 100.

They have just 17 homers as a team so far, none from Fernando Tatis Jr.

I like the F5 prop here because once it gets to the bullpen, the game tilts heavily to San Diego. Closer Mason Miller has an amazing walkout and when he gets to the mound he has an insane 74% K% so far. Meanwhile Angels closer Jordan Romano has blown two saves already this week.

Angels F5 -0.5 (-105 BetMGM)

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Giants at Nationals

Let’s stick to the Warmth in the Northeast play and go with an over on two kind of underwhelming teams. The Nats have actually had a pretty pesky offense as their 112 wRC+ ranks 4th in MLB. They face Logan Webb, who has gotten off to quite the rocky 5.25 ERA start. His K% has dipped to just 20% and his BB% is at 8.6% vs. 5.6% for his career. He’s had an ability to change his styles over the years, and in 2025 he bumped his K% to a career high 26%. He may need to do that again as he’s an extreme groundball pitcher in front of a really bad fielding right side of his infield. Not sure he gets it corrected in time to limit damage today. The Giants are not a titanic offense to say the least, but I trust they can at least get to the meh Zack Littell and the hideous Nats bullpen.

Over 8 (-110 FanDuel)

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Cadillac confirmed that American driver Colton Herta will drive in four Free Practice 1 sessions for the team during the 2026 Formula 1 season, starting at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix in June. That will be the first of four FP1 sessions the American driver will participate in this season.

Herta is also driving for Hitech TGR this season in Formula 2, his first time in the F1 feeder series. He scored points during his first race weekend when he finished seventh in the Feature Race at the Australian Grand Prix.

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“I can’t wait to get behind the wheel of the Cadillac Formula 1 Team car for the first time,” said Herta. “I am looking forward to working closely with the team in a full Grand Prix environment and am fully focused on learning from every appearance. I hope I can contribute to the overall race weekend and help the team, Checo [Pérez] and Valtteri [Bottas] as much as possible.”

Herta signed on as a test driver for Cadillac ahead of the team’s inaugural F1 season, and has been linked to a future move to the series for years.

“Colton has really earned this opportunity,” said CEO Dan Towriss. “These sessions are a valuable opportunity for him to integrate with the team, develop his skills behind the wheel and off the track, and learn about a Grand Prix weekend from the inside.”

F1 returns to action with the Miami Grand Prix at the start of May, but it will not be long until fans see Herta in action on the grid.

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