Tye Kartye makes immediate splash in Rangers debut

Tye Kartye discovered the Rangers claimed him off waivers round 11 a.m. Friday. 

Twenty-five and a half hours later, the 24-year-old wing made his Blueshirts debut at Madison Sq. Backyard. 

“It was fairly loopy,” Kartye mentioned after the Rangers took a 3-2 shootout win over the Penguins Saturday afternoon. “Hustled to make a 2:45 p.m. flight, packed what I may after which received right here. It was type of good, simply slept, wakened and got here to play.”

Kartye is the second participant the Rangers claimed off waivers this season, with Vincent Iorio serving as the primary on the finish of January.

The Rangers are actively on the lookout for younger gamers with an upside and Kartye suits the kind of skater they wish to add to their backside six. 

Lining up on the third unit subsequent to Noah Laba and Brendan Brisson, Kartye posted two pictures on purpose in 12:39 of ice time. 

Kartye mentioned he envisions his Rangers function being much like the type he performed on Saturday, noting his physicality, forechecking and “being in good spots.” He additionally hopes to chip in offensively when he can. 

In his third NHL season, Kartye has three targets and 5 assists by way of 41 video games to this point. 

“He got here as marketed,” head coach Mike Sullivan mentioned of his first impression of Kartye. “[General manager Chris Drury] talked to me about his motor and his potential to assist us within the puck pursuit recreation, getting in on the forecheck, disrupting performs, making it exhausting on opponents’ breakout choices, issues of that nature. He has some physicality to his recreation. We didn’t use him on the penalty kill tonight, however I might anticipate getting him concerned with that transferring ahead. It’s simply exhausting, we haven’t had an opportunity to essentially work with him but with that, so I didn’t wish to put him in a tricky spot. Shifting ahead, I might anticipate him being concerned within the penalty kill, however I assumed he had a superb recreation for us. 

“For a man that will get the information yesterday, travels all the best way throughout the nation after which has to lace them up in a 12:30 recreation. That’s not a simple factor to do, however I assumed he performed very well.” 

In his second recreation in New York, Brendan Brisson notched his first level as a Ranger with the secondary help on Taylor Raddysh’s game-tying third-period purpose. 

Defenseman Scott Morrow appeared in his first recreation since Jan. 31, changing Iorio on the fitting facet of Matthew Robertson. Saturday’s shootout win counted as his twenty ninth recreation of the 2025-26 season, in addition to the forty fifth of his NHL profession. 

Iorio, who the Rangers claimed off waivers from the Sharks on Jan. 31, was scratched for the primary time since changing into a Blueshirt. 

Goalie Igor Shesterkin received the beginning nod Saturday towards the Penguins, marking his thirty sixth begin of the season. 

Turning apart 31 of the 32 pictures he confronted, Shesterkin picked up his 18th victory of the 2025-26 marketing campaign.