- Rangers agreed to terms with defenseman Scott Morrow on a one-year contract Wednesday
- Morrow was the headline piece New York got back in the K’Andre Miller sign-and-trade
- Read below for what a rebuilt Rangers blue line means for his 2026-27 role
Scott Morrow is sticking around, and the New York Rangers get another year to find out what they actually landed for K’Andre Miller.
President and general manager Chris Drury announced Wednesday that the club agreed to terms with the 23-year-old defenseman on a one-year contract, according to the team release. New York did not disclose the financial terms.
Morrow arrived in the July 2025 sign-and-trade that sent Miller to Carolina on an eight-year, $60 million deal. The Rangers got the young blueliner plus a conditional first-round pick and a second-rounder.
Miller went out and won a Stanley Cup in his first season with the Hurricanes.
Year one on Broadway was a lot quieter. Morrow managed six assists in 29 games with the Rangers while averaging 15:40 a night, and he spent the bigger chunk of the season in Hartford, where he had five goals and 19 points in 34 games and finished minus-16 on the worst team in the AHL.
Adam Fox missed 27 games across two injury stretches and the right side sat open for weeks. Morrow never took it.
His tools have never been the question. He is 6-foot-2, 210 pounds, shoots right, and Carolina trusted him enough to dress him for five Eastern Conference Final games against Florida as a first-year pro. The season before the trade he ran the blue line in AHL Chicago with 13 goals and 39 points in 52 games.
Roster math is the problem now. Drury shipped out Will Borgen, brought in Sean Durzi, traded for Marcus Pettersson and re-signed Braden Schneider, which stacks Morrow behind Fox, Vladislav Gavrikov, Durzi, Pettersson, Schneider and Urho Vaakanainen.
Schneider’s name has floated through trade talk all summer, and moving him is the clearest path to a full-time job for Morrow. Short of that, camp opens next month with a contract in hand and a seat on the wrong side of the depth chart.
