{"id":492233,"date":"2026-06-26T20:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=492233"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:36:37","slug":"pavel-dorofeyev-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/06\/26\/pavel-dorofeyev-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers Sign Sniper Pavel Dorofeyev to Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big goal scorers for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/06\/26\/pavel-dorofeyev-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights <\/a>in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs has signed a deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/06\/26\/new-york-rangers-chemistry\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers.<\/a> Today, we have news of a <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dorofpa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> contract, as the restricted free agent has signed a contract<a  href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/2026\/06\/26\/pavel-dorofeyev-trade-grades-rangers-golden-knights\/90717133007\/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&amp;taid=6a3f141758fbef0001221559&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=bluesky\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> right after being traded<\/a>. The Russian&#8217;s new deal is seven years with an average $11 million salary cap hit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:voufx6aazemysbzpke2ljwzv\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mpa62bxfc72z\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreidzvdnobxdiozo4ycp2fpn4u645ztnqapwykraxxlpoynhn3iv7fi\">\n<p>Pavel Dorofeyev trade grades: Who won the Rangers and Golden Knights deal? bit.ly\/4eKFXkG\ud83d\udcf8 Jamie Schwaberow, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:voufx6aazemysbzpke2ljwzv?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For The Win (@forthewin.bsky.social)<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:voufx6aazemysbzpke2ljwzv\/post\/3mpa62bxfc72z?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2026-06-27T00:06:50Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pavel Dorofeyev Contract Signed by New York Rangers<\/h2>\n<p>There was some indicators that it would be difficult for Vegas to re-sign Dorofeyev smoothly. It isn&#8217;t unexpected as players who have really exploded during their restricted free agency timeline, finding the team and player friendly balance between good and evil, I mean, a bridge-deal and a monster extension,<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers and general manager <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/drurych01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Drury<\/a> swooped in and were able to land the 25-year-old.\u00a0\u00a0At this time of the news of the Pavel Dorofeyev contract, it calls for a statistical review of data. Pronto!\u00a0Dorofeyev is a sniper, he knows how to beat goals and has the combination of power and accuracy<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Russian has scored 92 goals through 231 career regular season games to this point of his NHL career. A career that has spanned parts of five seasons if you include his two-game 2021-22, as a member of the Golden Knights. He now takes his talents to the bright lights on the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOB9TH7yebq\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 2000px; aspect-ratio: 2000\/1088;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p><span>(Credit Image: \u00a9 Matias J. Ocner\/Miami Herald via ZUMA Press Wire)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>He was not awarded a Stanley Cup victory, because he only played in 18 regular season games for the Golden Knights in 2022-23. However, he played a massive hand in the Golden Knights making a run to the Stanley Cup Final. However, the Golden Knights came up short against the Carolina Hurricanes in six games.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas once again proves that it is willing to do whatever it takes to shake up the roster. This even means dealing a proven goalscorer to create salary cap space.<\/p>\n<p>Drury gets a younger Russian goalscorer to replace <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/panarar01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artemi Panarin<\/a>, who was traded at the deadline. The Rangers are hoping to get moving back up the standings after two disastrous campaigns in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Rob Gray-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big goal scorers for the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs has signed a deal with the New York Rangers. Today, we have news of a Pavel Dorofeyev contract, as the restricted free agent has signed a contract right after being traded. The Russian&#8217;s new deal is seven years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":489638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4547,34,4548],"tags":[662,4028],"class_list":["post-492233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rangers","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-pavel-dorofeyev"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492729,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492233\/revisions\/492729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}