Day: July 5, 2026

With his Rangers’ future still up in the air, 24 year old defenseman Braden Schneider has elected to file for salary arbitration. He was the only one of three eligible Blueshirts to file for arbitration before today’s 5:00pm Eastern deadline to do so. Neither William Trudeau – acquired from Montreal in exchange for Brett Berard, nor Lauri Pajuniemi – who became a free agent last Summer and returned to Europe chose to go this route.

The filing means that he is no longer able to sign an offer sheet from another team, though the prospect of doing so seemed unlikely given his struggles last year, where an injury to Adam Fox saw his ice time jump from 17:52 per game to 20:27 in this past season. The increased opportunity did not result in better results however, scoring just 2 goals on the year, four fewer than his career high of 6 set in 2024-25. In addition opposition found it easier to play against him with a Corsi For % of just 45.77 per NaturalStatTrick.com that was better than only Carson Soucy and a limited audition for Drew Fortescue which totaled just 9 games at the end of the year.